vegetables, sea food, liver beef, egg yolk,
cabbage, cauliflower and daily products.
Maintaining a healthy weight helps
alleviate unnecessary stress on the heart.
Excess weight makes the heart work harder
than it needs to and is often associated with
other heart conditions often associated
with hypertension.
The other common trigger for a heart
attack is a strong emotional reaction to a
stressful event, such as anger. Learning to
remain calm and relax can help keep your
heart healthy.
To control hypertension, smoking is highly
discouraged. Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor
and because of this; smoking causes an
increase in blood pressure that can be
detected after only one cigarette.
Generally, for effective management
of hypertension, it’s important to seek
professional advice so as to adopt a healthy
diet, increase physical activity and maintain
a healthy weight.
The link between salt and high blood
pressure is especially compelling. Many
people with high blood pressure are “salt
sensitive,” meaning that anything more
than the minimal bodily need for salt is
too much for them and increases their
blood pressure.
Other factors that have been associated
with essential hyper-tension include
obesity; diabetes; stress; insufficient
intake of calcium, and magnesium; lack
of physical activity; and chronic alcohol
consumption.
Deficiencies of minerals can contribute
to elevating pressure and correcting
those deficiencies can bring the pressure
down. Dietary intervention encourages
you to eat foods that will provide plenty
of dietary calcium and magnesium
including:
nuts,
legumes,
green
Kepha Nyanumba is a seasoned
Marketing Africa Columnist working
as a Consultant Nutritionist at AAR
Healthcare Limited. You can engage
him on this or related matters via email
at: [email protected], or
follow him on twitter: KNyanumba. Blog:
kephanyanumba.blogspot.com.
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