Heart-Healthy Tip #3: Eat These 6 Purple Foods to Help Your Blood Pressure
Good morning Healthy Hearts Club! Every day for American Heart Month, we’re posting a quick tip to help you eat for a healthier heart. Here’s today’s tip:
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How to Follow the DASH Diet
Studies suggest that following the DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) may help lower blood pressure. This balanced plan includes plenty of fruits and vegetables and several daily servings of low-fat dairy. It emphasizes whole (versus refined) grains and modest amounts of lean proteins, including poultry and fish, to minimize intake of unhealthy saturated fats. Here’s how to follow the DASH diet:
1. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables.
2. Get plenty of whole grains, like quinoa, brown rice or whole-wheat couscous.
3. Aim for several daily servings of low-fat dairy.
True/False: How Much Do You Know About Blood Pressure?
Quiz yourself on your knowledge of high blood pressure by answering "true" or "false" to the following statements.
T/F: Symptoms of high blood pressure (hypertension) include dizziness and headaches.
Healthy Hearts Challenge Tip 1: Eat These 6 Purple Foods to Help Your Blood Pressure
To celebrate American Heart Month and our Healthy Hearts Challenge, every day this week we’re posting a quick tip to help you eat for a healthier heart. Here’s today’s tip:
Tip 1: Eat These 6 Purple Foods to Help Your Blood Pressure.
Tips to Lower Blood Pressure, Lower High Cholesterol and Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease
Find out the target results for cholesterol tests, blood pressure tests and more, and how to improve your numbers.
Here’s a list of the most important tests for measuring your heart health (consult your doctor to see which ones you need—and how often).
Soda and Health: Is Soda Bad for My Blood Pressure?
You know that drinking too many sodas and other sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), such as teas and flavored drinks, is bad for your waistline. New research shows that it may be bad for something else, too—your blood pressure. A new study of nearly 3,000 people published in the journal Hypertension reported that those who drank more than one serving a day of SSBs had significantly higher blood pressure than participants who drank one serving (about 12 ounces) or less daily.
3 Ways to Cut 1,000 mg of Sodium
Americans have a supersized salt habit. (On average we eat 3,400 milligrams of sodium in a day, which is about 11⁄2 teaspoons of salt.) If we—as a population—slashed sodium by about 1,000 mg (1⁄2 teaspoon) out of our daily diets, we’d lower our risk of heart disease by up to 9 percent, according to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Save salt with these 3 easy ways to trim 1,000 mg of sodium:
1. Trade a meaty personal-size pizza for a veggie version.
2. Eat 1 less tablespoon soy sauce with your sushi.