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Eating Habits You Must Follow If High Blood Pressure Runs In Your Family

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Eat fresh food, not fast food.

By doing so regularly, you will automatically reduce the amount of salt in your diet. And sodium has a big impact on your blood pressure.

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Eat less saturated fat.

This advice pertains to everyone but especially to people with a family history of high blood pressure.

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Limit sausage and other processed meats.

Not only are processed meats like sausage, bacon, and deli meats high in saturated fats, they are loaded with sodium and other preservatives that are unhealthy for your heart

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Adopt an anti-hypertension eating style.

It mostly shuns processed foods, sweets, and red meats.

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Prioritize potassium.

The essential mineral potassium eases the tension on the walls of your blood vessels, which in turn lowers blood pressure, according to the American Heart Association. 

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Skip foods that make you fat.

You can add soda to the list of high sugar, high-calorie items to nix that play a big role in obesity and, subsequently, high blood pressure