Eat This Food to Lower Your Blood Pressure
- Dietitian.Lauren Hmede
- Aug 1, 2019
- 2 min read
Eat This Food to Lower Your Blood Pressure
Researchers found that the combination of adding more walnuts while also reducing saturated fats, was an effective way to reduce high blood pressure.
Walnuts are excellent sources of heart-healthy Omega 3 fatty acids as well as other heart-healing compounds known as polyphenols.
Just one quarter cup of walnuts contains 2700 mg of Omega 3s, which is more than most other foods that contain these powerful, anti-inflammatory and healing fats.
Walnuts are unique in that their vitamin E content is in the form of gamma-tocopherol which is superior for heart and blood vessel health.
SIDE-EFFECTS OF COMMON BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATIONS
Some of the most common side effects of blood pressure medications include:
ACE Inhibitors: a dry cough, excessive reductions in blood pressure, headaches, dizziness, fainting and reduced kidney function.
Beta Blockers: dizziness, weakness, fatigue, fainting, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, chest pain.
Calcium Channel Blockers: swelling of the ankles and extremities, flushing, dizziness, heartburn and nausea.
Blood pressure medications should not be stopped suddenly or without your doctor’s approval, as doing so can sometimes result in heart attacks.
HOW TO REAP THE BENEFITS OF WALNUTS FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
It’s important to add walnuts to your diet while also reducing the amount of saturated fat in your diet to help reduce high blood pressure. Saturated fat is found in most animal foods such as beef, pork, processed meats, bacon, sausage, cheese and other dairy products, to name a few.
Fresh walnuts have a sweet flavor and buttery texture that is nothing like their rancid counterparts. Before you write-off walnuts, be sure to try fresh, refrigerated ones.
Fresh, raw walnuts make a great addition to salads, atop yogurt or bowl of fruit, chopped and added to quinoa or rice salads, or chopped and added to previously-cooked vegetable dishes.
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