The food is easy to fill potassium

The sino-japanese friendship hospital of combining traditional Chinese and western medicine heart medical director HuangLi

Source: health

        Many patients with high blood pressure all know, reducing sodium intake is the most important, that each person every day sodium intake for no more than 6 g (equivalent to go after the rubber a common beer bottle caps). But whether you know, in limited while also note added salt potassium.

        Add potassium is the easiest to hypertension patients to ignore, actually, for potassium is easy to diet. Research shows that, every day to eat green leafy vegetables no less than 400 grams, dietary potassium intake and blood pressure is inversely proportional to the level. Investigation shows, potassium intake of residents in our country less than 1/6 of the sodium intake. Therefore, advocate green leafy vegetables a day for not less than 400 grams, fruit 100-200 g. In addition to green leafy vegetables, k more food and nuts and legumes, lean lean and kelp, edible fungus, mushrooms, laver, etc.

        In addition, hypertension patients should also be limiting alcohol consumption, and long-term drinking a small amount of wine can make a moderately elevated blood pressure, excessive drinking is a significantly higher blood pressure. A drinking habits of hypertension patients if limited capacity, can reduce blood pressure 2 ~ 4 mmHg.

        Alcohol quantity (g) = alcohol consumption (ml) x alcohol content (%) x 0.8 (alcohol ratio). Advise men daily drinking alcohol amount should be less than 30 g, women less than 15 g.

        In addition, hypertension patients should also increase physical activity, try to make their body mass index in 24 (body mass index = weight kg ÷ height m2) less than, to give up smoking. In short, health way of life is the cornerstone of the prevention and control of hypertension, perseverance will benefit for life.