Diet Chart for High BP Patients - Hypertension

What is Hypertension?

A condition in which the blood pressure of the human increases ( pressure against artery ) than the normal blood pressure due to many reasons like stress & unhealthy lifestyle.

Blood pressure above 140/90 is considered hypertension. It is also known as high blood pressure.

Types of Hypertension-

1. Primary – It is the most common type of blood pressure as it occurs due to ageing and genetic factor.

2. Secondary – It occurs mainly due to the side effect of some medicines that don’t suit the patient’s body.

What are the causes of hypertension?

Following are the causes of hypertension-

• Smoking

• Excessive drinking

• Overweight or obesity

• Diabetes

• Kidney related diseases ( Chronic disease )

• Mental Stress

• Lack of physical activities

• Unhealthy lifestyle

• High bad cholesterol level

• High salt intake

• Low intake of minerals and vitamins.

• Ageing and

• genetics can be a factor too.

Symptoms of hypertension-

Generally, we can’t see or feel any symptoms of hypertension. But the blood pressure check-up can tell us about it. Sometimes, some people are able to feel their high blood pressure as their hearts start pounding a lot when their blood pressure rises which is higher than the normal heartbeat.

Nowadays people use to keep the blood pressure device in their homes to regularly check their blood pressure by themselves as it’s cost-effective, time saving and convenient to use.

As we can’t easily find out whether we are suffering from hypertension or not in an early stage until we do our blood pressure check-up, that’s why it’s also known as the silent killer as it can become a reason for your untimely death since with the time hypertension & it impacts on our body and mind gets severe and can lead to heart stroke or brain haemorrhage or can even damage our other crucial internal organs.

That’s why 'prevention is better than cure.

Now as we know about the problem and its severe impact, so it’s time to move towards the prevention part.

A perfectly planned diet chart is the best option a person can follow to reduce the risk of hypertension. It can provide us nutrients in a balanced way with the perfect salt intake that directly hits the main cause of hypertension. Again a perfect diet chart automatically corrects our lifestyle as we bound ourselves to time and routines and a good lifestyle can cure any disease.

So here’s is the diet chart for curing or preventing hypertension that you have been looking for -

The above 7-day meal plan for hypertension offers a week’s worth of healthful eating that
will help you maintain normal blood pressure and lose weight (if you are overweight).
Use less than ½ tsp of salt in a day = <1500 mg sodium. Avoid using salt in roti, rice,
salads.
Avoid eating packaged nuts and seeds which are salted. Eat unsalted nuts and seeds,
chana and makhana.
Along with diet, you need to exercise on a daily basis to boost your health and well-
being.

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About Shrinidhi Anand Bhangdiya

I am a certified nutritionist and a health & wellness educator, passionate about health, nutrition and fitness. Her expertise are menu planning, recipe development, diabetes management, weight management, CVD management, sports nutrition, pediatric nutrition, research in foods and nutrition and psychology of eating. She aims to mend the gap between knowing and doing, by catering each individual's unique circumstances by providing healthy meal-plans and nutritional counseling.