Foods To Help Reduce Your Blood Pressure

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I’m afraid that we’re getting to the point where we just kind of skim over food recommendations.  I mean, we’ve seen the information so much we could probably write our own health journal.  But, left unsued, the information won’t do us a bit of good.  We have to actively implement healthy eating and living into our daily routines.  Salads and vegetables instead of burgers and fries, green tea instead of coke, fresh fruit instead of ice cream.

The beauty of it is once you start eating better, you start feeling better.  Instantly. But the minute you creep back into the fast food joints and start tossing down the fat, the carbs, and the salt - your engine starts getting all bogged down and sluggish again.

A question, why do we ever go back?  Do you think it’s Habit?  Do our bodies start to literally crave what they’re accustomed to?   I mean, it’s not for taste, obviously.  A vegetable plate at Cracker Barrel or a delicious sub (like the seafood one!) from Subway wins out over a burger and fries any day.

At any rate, according to Everyday Health, the following groups of food can help to control and even reduce high blood pressure.  They can also help to keep you out of the doctor’s office in the first place.

Foods high in potassium: Bananas, citrus fruit, dried apricots, fish (especially salmon, flounder, and tuna), green leafy vegetables, legumes, melons, potato skins, poultry, raisins, tomatoes, whole-grain cereals, yogurt

Foods high in calcium: Blackstrap molasses, broccoli, canned sardines and salmon (with bones), dairy products (milk, cheese, and yogurt), kale, tofu

Foods high in fiber: Apples, barley, brown rice, corn, legumes, nuts, potatoes with skin, prunes, whole-grain cereal and bread, yams

Foods high in magnesium: Fish, green leafy vegetables, legumes, meat, nuts, poultry, whole grains