Which of the following dietary recommendations would work best to lower her blood pressure?
A healthy heart depends on choices such as one’s diet and one’s level of exercise. One risk factor for a heart attack (and stroke)is hypertension (high blood pressure). Imagine that you are working with a woman who doesn’t want to take drugs to lower her blood pressure. Which of the following dietary recommendations would work best to lower her blood pressure?
A) eliminate all salt from the diet from all sources
B) include 3 servings of nonfat milk, and 10 servings of fruits and vegetables daily
C) Have her replace all of the salt she would use in her cooking with a salt substitute like Mrs. Dash.
D) include 3 servings of nonfat milk per day, plus 10 servings of fruits and vegetables (3-4 of fruits, 5-6 of vegetables), including those fruits and vegetables which will boost her potassium intake, AND restrict sodium to 1.5 to 2 grams (1500 to 2000 mgs) per day
Well… The Atkins diet is reported by many to both Lower Blood Pressure and to straighten out cholesterol numbers – and triglyceride numbers are the first to drop dramatically.
Atkins believed that the big problem that people have in today’s world is to be surrounded by a Super Abundance of highly glycemic carbohydrates for which the human animal is unprepared. They can really screw a person up.
I’ve done the Atkins for the past 10 years – it’s very good – and it does straighten out a lot of problems. Sure – you can fool with salt – can’t hurt – but it might not help either.
June 27th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Well… The Atkins diet is reported by many to both lower blood pressure and to straighten out cholesterol numbers – and triglyceride numbers are the first to drop dramatically.
Atkins believed that the big problem that people have in today’s world is to be surrounded by a Super Abundance of highly glycemic carbohydrates for which the human animal is unprepared. They can really screw a person up.
I’ve done the Atkins for the past 10 years – it’s very good – and it does straighten out a lot of problems. Sure – you can fool with salt – can’t hurt – but it might not help either.
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June 27th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
None of the above.
Eliminating salt from the diet will increase the risk for health problems. Contrary to popular belief, salt doesn’t cause high blood pressure – it regulates it.
Anything, if used in excess, will cause health problems. The salt contained in processed foods isn’t as much of a problem as the medical community maintains. If it was, every obese person would be suffering from a salt overdose. But the body washes out excess salt through urination and perspiration.
The "excess salt" that doctors are claiming to cause high blood pressure is actually concentrated salt resulting from the body borrowing the water from the blood to inject into the dehydrated cells. In other words, the body was dehydrated first, and so it came looking for the water it needed from the blood – which concentrated the salt levels, because only the water was filtered from the blood, not the salt.
Salt and water are two of the most important nutrients in the body – this is why they’re the most plentiful, as well. If salt was so bad for people, the body wouldn’t contain so much of it. One of the many functions of salt (and water) is to deliver nutrients to the cells so that they function properly.
But the medical community has convinced people to not drink water and take in salt, so they get dehydrated and health problems result – this makes them dependent on doctors and the drugs they prescribe.
The health industry that includes the drug companies and the medical community is a multi-billion dollar per year industry. And unwitting people who put their trust in the hands of their doctors are feeding the giant.
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