DASH diet: Healthy eating to lower your blood pressure! It emphasizes portion size, eating a variety of foods and getting the right amount of nutrients.
With this over time, your high BP could drop by eight to 14 points, and reduce health risks.
DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. - A lifelong approach to healthy to treat or prevent high blood pressure (hypertension).
Principles
* To reduce the sodium in your diet
* Eat a variety of foods rich in nutrients (that help lower BP) such as potassium, calcium and magnesium.
Standard DASH diet. You can consume up to 2,300 milligrams (mg) of sodium a day.
Lower sodium DASH diet. You can consume up to 1,500 mg of sodium a day.
Shalini puri
Dietician
Asha usa mini medicine citi
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