I am a cardiovascular doctor, I am directly diagnosed and treated thousands of times a year hypertensive people, online is more every day for hundreds of hypertensive people free consultation. The most important concern of friends with high blood pressure is diet, ask what can eat, can not eat what, eat what will increase blood pressure, eat what will reduce blood pressure. And so on a thousand strange questions.

But think also understand everyone, after all, everyone wants to eat this instinct by the way to cure high blood pressure, or can not eat because of unscientific, high blood pressure is getting heavier.

So what vegetables do hypertensive people try to eat less?

At least we, cardiovascular doctors, never give any hypertensive people say, don't eat this vegetable, don't eat that vegetable; because as long as the vegetables are fresh, none of them will directly raise blood pressure.

It's just that when we eat vegetables, because we have to process them, this time we need to pay attention, cause when we cook, we will inevitably use oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and other seasonings. It is the seasonings that should be controlled, not the vegetables themselves.

A, this is the food as little as possible to eat, to control

For friends with high blood pressure, there is no absolute say that you can not eat the food, unless you eat allergies or uncomfortable. But salty foods must be controlled, because there is plenty of evidence that high salt leads to high blood pressure, and low salt is good for low blood pressure.

For example, you should eat less squash, soy sauce, tofu, tofu milk, pickles, soy sauce, pickled, brined, smoked products, kimchi, soy beef, ham and sausage, roasted duck, and so on.

Besides these foods that are high in salt, there are also high-fat, high-cholesterol, high-sugar foods to control, such as fatty products, offal foods, fried foods, crispy foods and so on.

Two, eat vegetables with less salt is the key

Vegetables are certainly encouraged to eat, because most vegetables contain a lot of potassium salt and dietary fiber, and research has proved that potassium salt can resist the harm caused by sodium salt, against sodium salt led to increased blood pressure, and can even lower blood pressure. Most vegetables contain dietary fiber, conducive to lipid metabolism, with the role of regulating lipid metabolism, helping to delay atherosclerosis. So all vegetables are encouraged to eat more.

But most of the vegetables are cooked and eaten, especially in our cooking, it is inevitable to use salt, oil, sugar; especially salt can lead to high blood pressure.

Research shows that daily sodium intake increased from 20mmol to 200mmol, can cause a significant increase in blood pressure. Simple calculation, every extra 3g of salt will lead to an increase in systolic blood pressure of 4-5mmHg, and our country's current average level of salt is more than 12g per person per day, healthy eating salt is less than 6g per person per day. so frying vegetables should be less salt, in addition to less salt, but also try to put as little as possible in the oil, although most of us eat most of the vegetable oil, most of the vegetable oil is relatively healthy, but too much vegetable oil, as well as high temperature oil can produce trans fatty acids, and these, while not directly contributing to high blood pressure, can affect cardiovascular health.

So, all vegetables can be eaten, but cooking with less salt, less oil and less sugar is the principle and the key.

Three, the latest research, bitter food may be able to lower blood pressure

Many people say that eating celery to lower blood pressure, eat onions to lower blood pressure, etc., in fact, there is no evidence that these vegetables directly lower blood pressure, the only thing that has been confirmed is that spicy and bitter food may be beneficial to blood pressure control.

A high sodium diet is an important risk factor for hypertension, and reducing salt intake can significantly lower blood pressure and reduce target organ damage. However, for many people who are used to eating salty foods, reducing salt is not so easy.

Previous studies have found that eating spicy foods can reduce people's preference for salty foods after, thus indirectly reducing salt consumption by eating spicy foods.

Recently, it has been found that long-term consumption of bitter foods, such as bitter melon, may also help reduce salt intake and blood pressure.

Research has found that adding some bitter melon extract to the diet over a long period of time can restore the TRPM5-mediated aversion to a high-salt diet in the epithelial tissues of the tongue, thus reducing salt intake, lowering blood pressure, and mitigating the damage done to the cardiovascular system. In addition, cucurbitacin E, the main active ingredient in bitter melon extract, inhibits vasoconstriction.

So, hypertensive people, there is no absolute can't eat vegetables, just remember to do the dishes with less salt, less oil and less sugar can be; almost all of the vegetables themselves are conducive to blood pressure control.

If any vegetables may lower blood pressure, studies have shown that spicy foods or bitter foods may be good for blood pressure control or lowering blood pressure!