Dietary contraindications and precautions for hypertension

 1.Three meals

Dietary arrangements should be small and multiple meals to prevent overfilling; hypertensive patients are often more obese, it is necessary to eat low-calorie food. Dinner should be small and light, too much greasy food can induce stroke. Edible oil should use vegetarian oil containing vitamin E and linoleic acid; do not eat sweet food. Eat more high-fiber foods, such as celery, bamboo shoots, bok choy, cabbage, winter melon, tomatoes, eggplant, bean sprouts, jellyfish, kelp, onions, etc., as well as small amounts of fish, shrimp, poultry, skim milk powder, egg whites, etc. 

2.low salt
The amount of salt eaten per person per day should be strictly controlled at 2-5 grams, or about one tsp. The amount of salt should also be minus the sodium contained in soy sauce for cooking, 3 ml of soy sauce is equivalent to 1 gram of salt. Salted (sauce) vegetables, curd, salted meat (eggs), pickled products, clams and shellfish, shrimp, Jingcai, as well as coronary vegetables, grass head, hollow vegetables and other vegetables contain high sodium, should be eaten as little as possible or not.

3.high potassium 
Potassium-rich food into the body to counteract the sodium-induced pressure and vascular damage, can often "appear" in the recipe. Such foods include beans, mushrooms, black dates, almonds, walnuts, peanuts, potatoes, bamboo shoots, lean meat, fish, poultry, root vegetables such as amaranth, rape and onions, fruits such as bananas, dates, peaches, oranges, etc.   

4.Fish    
No matter what kind of hypertension patients, fish is the first choice, because epidemiological surveys have found that eating fish once a week than those who do not eat fish, heart disease mortality rate is significantly lower.

5.fruits and vegetables
Every day the body needs B vitamins, vitamin C, can be satisfied by eating more fresh vegetables and fruits. Someone initiated, 1-2 apples a day, beneficial to health, fruit can also make up for calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium, etc..   

6.calcium supplement
Should eat more calcium-rich food, such as soybeans, sunflower seeds, walnuts, milk, peanuts, fish and shrimp, red dates, fresh peas, garlic, purple cabbage, etc.

7.iron supplementation
The study found that late hypertension patients with plasma iron lower than normal, so eat more peas, fungus and other iron-rich food, not only to lower blood pressure, but also to prevent anemia in later life.

8.drink water
Natural mineral water contains lithium, strontium, zinc, selenium, iodine and other essential trace elements. Tea contains tea polyphenols, and the content in green tea is higher than black tea, which can prevent the oxidation of vitamin C, and can sweep away harmful chromium ions.   

Dietary contraindications for patients with hypertension

1. Carbohydrate food

Suitable food - rice, porridge, noodles, noodles, kefir soup, taro, soft beans   

Foods to be avoided - sweet potatoes (foods that cause abdominal gas), dried beans, strong flavored cookies  

2. Protein-based foods

Suitable foods - foods with little fat (tender meat, lean meat of cattle and pigs, white meat and fish), eggs, milk and milk products (whipped cream, yeast milk, ice cream, cheese), soy products (tofu, natto, soy flour, oiled tofu, shredded tofu with green vegetables).   

Foods to be avoided - foods with a lot of fat (beef and pork pancetta, blood from ribs, whale meat, herring, eel, tuna, etc.), processed products (salami, etc.).