Dietary arrangements should be a small number of meals, to avoid overfilling; hypertensive patients are often more obese, must eat low-calorie food, the total calorie should be controlled at about 8.36 megajoules per day, 150-250 grams of staple food per day, animal protein and plant protein each accounted for 50%. Hypertensive patients without kidney disease or gout disease can eat more soybeans, peanuts, black or white fungus and fruits. Dinner should be small and light, excessive greasy food will induce stroke. Cooking oil should be vegetarian oil containing vitamin E and linoleic acid; no sweets. Eat more high-fiber foods, such as bamboo shoots, bok choy, cabbage, winter melon, tomatoes, eggplant, bean sprouts, jellyfish, kelp, onions, and a small amount of fish, shrimp, poultry, skim milk powder, egg whites.

Low salt

The amount of salt eaten per person per day should be strictly controlled at 2-5 grams, or about one tsp. The amount of salt should also be subtracted from the sodium contained in soy sauce used for cooking; 3 milliliters of soy sauce is equivalent to 1 gram of salt. Salted (sauce) vegetables, fermented bean curd, salted meat (eggs), pickled products, clams and shellfish, shrimp, eggs, as well as Chrysanthemum coronarium, grass, cabbage and other vegetables containing sodium are high, should be eaten as little as possible or not eat.

High potassium

Potassium-rich foods into the body can fight against sodium caused by the role of blood pressure and vascular damage, you can often "show up" in the recipe. These foods include beans, mushrooms, black dates, almonds, walnuts, peanuts, potatoes, bamboo shoots, lean meat, fish, poultry, root vegetables such as amaranth, greens and scallions, fruits such as bananas, dates, peaches, oranges and so on. Fish no matter what kind of hypertension patients, fish is the first choice, because the epidemiological survey found that eating fish once a week than those who do not eat fish, heart disease mortality rate is significantly lower.

Fruits and vegetables

Every day the body needs B vitamins, vitamin C, can be met by eating more fresh vegetables and fruits. Some people advocate, eat 1-2 apples a day, good for health, fruit can also supplement calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium and so on. Calcium supplement some people let hypertension patients take 1 gram of calcium every day, 8 weeks later found that the blood pressure dropped. Therefore, you should eat more calcium-rich foods, such as soybeans, sunflower seeds, walnuts, milk, peanuts, fish, shrimp, jujubes, fresh potherb mustard, garlic, nori and so on.

Iron

Studies have found that elderly hypertensive patients with plasma iron is lower than normal, so eat more peas, fungus and other iron-rich foods, not only can lower blood pressure, but also prevent anemia in the elderly.

Drinking water

Natural mineral water containing lithium, strontium, zinc, selenium, iodine and other essential trace elements, boiling water due to precipitation, beneficial to the human body, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, etc. will be significantly reduced, so it is appropriate to meet the standards of drinking water to drink. Tea contains tea polyphenols, and the content of green tea is higher than black tea, which can prevent the oxidation of vitamin C, help the utilization of vitamin C in the body, and can exclude harmful chromium ions. It also contains potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, fluorine and other trace elements. Therefore, 4-6 grams of tea per day (equivalent to 2-3 cups of tea bags) brewed, long-term use, beneficial to the human body.

The above dietary principles, hypertensive patients if they can fall into place, persistent, will be beneficial to health.

1, get up early in the morning a cup of cold boiled water about 1000ml, which can make the night lost water to replenish, can make the blood at least six hours lighter, directly reduce the pressure on the heart and blood vessels. It also liquefies atherosclerotic plaque.

2, salt-limited breakfast or salt-free breakfast

Salt-limited and salt-free can make the blood viscosity light, and is conducive to glomerular filtration, a large number of urination and sodium can be discharged from the body to achieve the purpose of lowering the blood pressure, hypertension, the early stage, the doctor prescribed dihydroketonium and other diuretic drugs, the mechanism of diuretic excretion to reduce the amount of blood solubility to achieve the purpose of lowering the blood pressure.

3, light diet

food less fried, fried, fried food, eat more vegetables and diuretic food, such as winter melon, boiled soybean, etc., eat more vegetable oil, eat less animal oil.

4, control the total amount

No matter what the food, you have to control to half full and eighty percent full, and do not rely on snacks to supplement.

If you can control your diet according to the above hypertension dietary principles, you may not need hypertension medication after a short period of time.

Foods that are good for lowering blood pressure:

① Leafy greens: celery, corns, amaranth, swede, leeks, cauliflower, water chestnuts, spinach, etc.;

② Roots and tubers: wild rice, asparagus, radish, carrots, water chestnuts, water chestnuts, hoofs;

③ Melons, fruits: watermelon, melon, tomatoes, hawthorn, lemons, bananas, fruits, jujubes, mulberries, eggplants

④ Flowers, seeds, nuts: chrysanthemum, rooibos, sesame, peas, fava beans, mung beans, corn, buckwheat, peanuts, watermelon seeds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, lotus hearts;

⑤ Aquatic products: kelp, seaweed, jellyfish, sea cucumber, bok choy, seaweed, oysters, abalone, shrimp, silverfish;

⑥ Animals and others: milk (skimmed), pig's gall bladder, Cow's yolk, honey, vinegar, soybean products, black fungus, white fungus, shiitake mushrooms