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7 Responses to “If your diagnosed with High Blood Pressure?”
You should also add more exercise into your routine, add calcium to your diet and eat healthier in general. This is a huge topic. I recommend you look for a book on the subject.
sodium is bad plan and simple once you have high blood pressure it is hard to keep in check unless you reduce as much sodium as possible , i am not a fat person i had high blood pressure for a while and ignored it i had a triple bypass at age 33 that was 2 years ago it is a good idea to keep it in check and to start checking your cholesterol by age 28
Depends on how high your blood pressure is and how much salt you are using and if they put you on medication.
I have had high blood pressure for 20 years. I have lost weight cut back on salt, started exercising and still require medication. Just keep in mind just because you do all the right things that sometimes you will always need medication.
Never go off your medication until your MD tells you too.
I hope that your MD gave you some diet instructions.
I would start now cutting way back for me eliminating it was impossible. But I need give up pickles, chips and salting everything.
When I was first diagnosed, my doctor was telling me all the usual stuff. Lose weight, exercise more, eat less sodium, blah blah blah. I told him it ain’t gonna happen and put me on some medication.
Bottom line, I eat what I want and just take an extra little pill every day. Zestoretic if you are interested. Tell your doc to give you a pill. Better living thru chemistry. That’s my motto.
However, here it is 2 years later, and I’ve recently decided it’s time to lose the weight, and have lost 10 lbs so far. Not so much for the blood pressure, but just wanting to lose the weight in general.
September 25th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Marvin Ham
You cut back on sodium altogether because sodium causes you to retain fluid which causes your blood pressure to raise.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Russell Nagy
cut out as much sodium as you can, increase fiber, and get more exercise and drink lots of water
September 27th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Aaron Winn
You should also add more exercise into your routine, add calcium to your diet and eat healthier in general. This is a huge topic. I recommend you look for a book on the subject.
September 29th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Margie Stamm
sodium is bad plan and simple once you have high blood pressure it is hard to keep in check unless you reduce as much sodium as possible , i am not a fat person i had high blood pressure for a while and ignored it i had a triple bypass at age 33 that was 2 years ago it is a good idea to keep it in check and to start checking your cholesterol by age 28
September 30th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Lydia Nixon
Depends on how high your blood pressure is and how much salt you are using and if they put you on medication.
I have had high blood pressure for 20 years. I have lost weight cut back on salt, started exercising and still require medication. Just keep in mind just because you do all the right things that sometimes you will always need medication.
Never go off your medication until your MD tells you too.
I hope that your MD gave you some diet instructions.
I would start now cutting way back for me eliminating it was impossible. But I need give up pickles, chips and salting everything.
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 am
Jack Story
Yes reduce sodium and increase calcium to about 1000mg per day. Potassium is also good too – can be found in foods like bananas or supplemented.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Althea Wix
When I was first diagnosed, my doctor was telling me all the usual stuff. Lose weight, exercise more, eat less sodium, blah blah blah. I told him it ain’t gonna happen and put me on some medication.
Bottom line, I eat what I want and just take an extra little pill every day. Zestoretic if you are interested. Tell your doc to give you a pill. Better living thru chemistry. That’s my motto.
However, here it is 2 years later, and I’ve recently decided it’s time to lose the weight, and have lost 10 lbs so far. Not so much for the blood pressure, but just wanting to lose the weight in general.