Diet for hypertensive people

A diet for hypertensive patients is suitable for people with heart and vascular disease. It helps to cope with excess weight and at the same time maintains health. The most famous dietary technique is the Dash diet. This therapeutic diet contributes to the normalization of high blood pressure, and in addition it helps to lose weight.

Dash Diet for Hypertension

The principle of such a food system is aimed at replacing harmful products with useful ones, and there are no serious limitations and changes occur gradually, which does not cause stress in a person.

Principles of diet for hypertensives:

  1. It is important to include vegetables in the menu, both fresh and boiled. They need to eat at least 4 times a day.
  2. Limit the amount of salt to make it less than 1 teaspoon. Use less salt for cooking, as well as exclude from the diet sausages, smoked products, etc.
  3. Give up flour desserts and include in the menu sweets prepared from fruits, for example, salads and jellies.
  4. It is worth to give up fatty foods and, in the first place, from meat. Give preference to the bird, fish and rabbit. Dairy products should also be low-fat.
  5. Include in the menu products that contain a lot of magnesium, such as nuts, beans and whole grain flour products.

Menu for a diet for hypertensive weight reduction is worth developing, focusing on these rules, consider examples to choose from.

Breakfast:

  1. Porridge, cooked on water, juice and toast with low-fat cottage cheese.
  2. Stewed vegetables, boiled egg, toast and compote of dried fruits .

Dinner:

  1. Baked fillets, peas with spinach and mushrooms, sauerkraut and yogurt.
  2. Steam fish with lemon juice, braised beans and vegetable salad.

Dinner:

  1. Baked vegetables, boiled fillet with mustard and toast.
  2. Saute from vegetables, meatballs from chicken and rice, and toast.

Snack:

  1. Fruit or dried fruit.
  2. Nuts and seeds.