This article explores six foods and drinks to avoid for maintaining healthy blood pressure. It highlights the dangers of red meat, processed foods, sugary drinks, and excessive caffeine consumption. The article emphasizes the importance of a balanced diet, regular exercise, and limiting alcohol intake for overall cardiovascular health.
You might just mindlessly follow the same well-trodden path around your local supermarket, not thinking about what you're putting in the trolley. And how many of us are guilty of committing the cardinal food shop sin of heading down those aisles on an empty stomach? The result? It’s easy to fall victim to impulse buys, without stopping to consider healthier options. A turned health advice writer, tells Sun Health: 'Think carefully what you have in your kitchen cupboards.
It's all too easy when you are tired and hungry to eat whatever you can find.' Here, she reveals the six foods and drinks she’d never allow in her home due to links to deadly conditions like high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke, including any red meat that’s been salted, cured or smoked, such as bacon, salami, ham, sausages, pepperoni and hot dogs. This is thought to be due to the high saturated fat content of red meat, as well as the high salt content. Persistent high blood pressure (hypertension) puts extra strain on your blood vessels, heart and other organs and it can raise your risk of serious conditions like heart disease, heart attacks and stroke. Adults are recommended to limit their salt to 6g per day (around one level teaspoon) to avoid health consequences including high blood pressure. The top tip is to swap out table salt, according to the Salt Substitute and Stroke Study, replacing it with a reduced sodium and added potassium alternative. Excessive boozing can narrow the blood vessels, which raises the risk of hypertension. Official drinking guidelines advise that people should not regularly drink more than 14 units a week to keep health risks from alcohol low. Although the guidelines recommend 150 minutes of activity per week, if you're currently very inactive, just a walk to the shop every day is better than nothing, and you can work up from there. Studies suggest that isometric exercises - when you hold the body in one position without moving, such as a wall squat or plank - are best for lowering blood pressure. Smoking cigarettes is a killer. It makes the arteries sticky and narrow, which can cause blockages. While smoking is not a direct cause of high blood pressure, it can cause an instant rise to pressure, heart rate and reduce the amount of oxygen that gets to the body’s cells. Sadly, caffeine can cause a short, but dramatic increase in your blood pressure - even if you don't have high blood pressure. The above tips can help you to lose weight, which is beneficial because being overweight in itself is a risk factor for hypertension. Being overweight forces your heart to work harder to pump blood around your body, which can raise your blood pressure
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