High blood pressure is often referred to as a "Silent Killer". Often there are no symptoms. So elevated blood pressure gone untreated for years, silently destroys the inside of the body.
Look at it like this... As with a garden hose water runs freely through to its destination. Now consider when you all but cover up the end with your thumb. The water shoots out farther with more force than before. But this is how you want it right? Only If you are spraying bugs off the bumper of the car. This kind of pressure in the blood vessels breaks up and ruins delicate vessels. They cannot take that kind of pressure.
Small blood vessels are the most at risk. They are typically found in the eye and the kidney.
When it comes to blood pressure many think only of taking medication to treat it.
Diet can have a significant effect. If you reduce your sodium your blood pressure will follow. The following are suggestions on how to lower salt in your diet.
-Take the salt shaker off the table
-Cook with very small amounts of salt. You don't need to add it to water to make it boil faster. It's a matter to the taste we are used to.
-Use fresh or frozen instead of canned foods
-Use salt free seasoning to add taste to foods.
-Rinse canned foods such as beans and corn. This will rinse off extra salt after the food has been drained.
-Intentionally buy low sodium food items.
-Read labels: You need to read the label to determine how much sodium food items contain. You are looking at milligrams. Every thousand milligrams equals 1 gram.
-Try to follow less than 2,000 mg or 2 grams per day
-We can learn to like lower salt foods.
-Sodium is an acquired taste.This is likely to take some time
-Be sure to check all foods, especially condiments.
