Senin, 02 Januari 2012

Lifestyle change

Lifestyle changes that are required in order to maintain a healthy blood pressure levels followed:
• lose weight if you are overweight or obese.
• Stop smoking.
• Do not Eat healthily, including the DASH diet (eat more fruits, vegetables and low fat dairy products, less saturated fat and total).
• Reduce the amount of sodium in the diet of less than 1,500 milligrams per day.
• How regular aerobic exercise (like brisk walking for at least 30 minutes per day, several days a week).
• Limit alcohol to two drinks per day for men, one drink per day for women.
Improve not only the reduction of blood pressure, measures the effectiveness of HBP medication.