How To Reduce High blood pressure

Healthy eating- Eat more vegetables

Your blood pressure readings are what you eat. Reducing your salt intake, eating more fruit and vegetables and keeping to alcohol limits will lower your blood pressure. Fruit and vegetables are full of vitamins, minerals and fibre to keep your body in good condition. They also contain potassium, which helps to balance out the negative effects of salt. This has a direct effect on your blood pressure, helping to lower it.

Exercise & activity lower blood pressure

Being more active and taking regular exercise lowers blood pressure by keeping your heart and arteries in good condition. Aerobic activity is the type that helps your heart the most. Aerobic activities are repetitive and rhythmic movements (exercises), and they use the large muscle groups of your body, such as those in your legs, shoulders and arms. Walking, jogging, swimming, dancing and digging are all aerobic activities.

Healthy weight- keeping a healthy weight

Being the right weight lowers blood pressure because your heart doesn't have to work so hard. Losing weight if you need to, will help to reduce your blood pressure and heart strain. You can calculate your own body mass index. There are a number of BMI calculators on the internet, or you can calculate it yourself. To do this, you need to measure your height in metres and your weight in kilograms. Divide your weight (in kilograms) by your height (in metres) and then divide the number by your height (in metres) again.

Further, If your blood pressure is consistently above 140/90mmHg (or 135/85mmHg at home) but your risk of cardiovascular disease is low – you should be able to lower your blood pressure by making some changes to your lifestyle (see below). You may be offered yearly blood pressure assessments.

If your blood pressure is consistently above 140/90mmHg (or 135/85mmHg at home) but below 160/100mmHg – you should seek advice from your doctor on medication to lower your blood pressure if you have existing or high risk of cardiovascular disease.

If your blood pressure is consistently above 160/100mmHg – you should seek advice from your doctor on medication to lower your blood pressure. All these are "How To Reduce High blood pressure".