What is the diet for arterial hypertension?
If a person suffers from hypertensive disease, this means that his blood vessels contain an increased volume of fluid that puts pressure on the walls of the vessels. With high blood pressure, the heart carries an additional burden, which increases the amount of the heart muscle, and consequently the heart can not simply pump blood that stagnates in various organs and tissues, thereby causing swelling and limited supply of oxygen and other nutrients.
And if a person has more and more weight, then this is an extra burden on the already weakened, cardiovascular system. What are the recommendations? Arterial pressure can be significantly reduced in the event that at the initial stage of arterial hypertension reduce the intake of table salt or even refuse it altogether. You can also use light exercise. To get rid of excess weight it is possible by means of a combination of a special diet and physical activities.
Nutrition rules for hypertension
A special diet consists of the following rules:
The first rule is to reduce the addition of salt to food. A healthy person daily consumes 10 grams of table salt, with hypertension it should be reduced at least twice, that is, the daily norm should be 4-5 g. Also, it is necessary to limit the amount of the drunk liquid (1.3 l per day, in including the first dishes).
The second rule: you need to turn off from the daily diet those products that affect the rise in blood pressure: tea, coffee, smoked and spicy foods, as well as drinks that contain high levels of alcohol.
The third rule: you can not smoke, because it is smoking that leads to a persistent narrowing of the blood vessels, and consequently to a sharp rise in blood pressure.
The fourth rule: hypertensive patients need to take care of their weight, in no way to prevent its sharp increase. You can not eat carbohydrates, which are easily digested, (confectionery), it is better to replace them with useful carbohydrates, which are found in vegetables, fruits and cereals. It is also necessary to refuse from animal fats, while replacing their vegetable. Some doctors also recommend fasting (short-term vegetarian meals).
The fifth rule: hypertensive patients should pay increased attention to alkalinizing products: vegetables, milk, coarse bread, eggs, rice.
Rule six: patients with essential hypertension are in great need of potassium (bananas, cabbage, dried apricots) and magnesium (walnuts, carrots, beets, cereals).
Rule seven: you need to correctly distribute meals throughout the day. Breakfast - 1/3 of the daily volume of food, lunch - less than half, dinner - 1/10 part.
Prevention of such diseases is very popular all over the world. The American system of recommendations on nutritional hypertension (DASH) was created precisely for this purpose. Its basic principles fully reflect the above-listed nutritional rules of hypertensive patients.
It is necessary to eat properly, the diet should consist of the right amount, proteins, carbohydrates and fats.