Thursday, May 20, 2010

Hypertension: Recommended Foods and Avoid Foods

Diet for Patients with Hypertension / High Blood Pressure

LOW-SALT DIET

What Low-Salt Diet?
Low-salt diet is a diet by limiting or avoiding the sodium salt.

Destination Low-Salt Diet :
  1. Helps eliminate the retention of salt / water in body tissues.
  2. Lowering HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE / HYPERTENSION.

How to Select Food Ingredients :
  1. Avoid Food Ingredients :
    • Food cans
    • Tomato Sauce, soy cheese
    • The brain, kidneys, ham, bacon, organ meats
    • Salted fish, salted eggs
    • Foods that are preserved with salt
    • Bread, toast, biscuits and cakes krakers
    • Abon, beef jerky
    • Margarine regular butter
    • Cheese peanuts
    • Pickles, pickled fruits / vegetables in cans
    • Tauco, shrimp paste, MSG, sodakue, baking powder.
    NOTE :
    The use of table salt is allowed with limits below the normal standard roughly 1 / 4 teaspoon of salt per day.

  2. Food Recommended :
    • All ingredients fresh and natural food in though without the sodium salt.
    • Rice, potatoes, cassava, wheat, hunkwe, corn sugar, etc.
    • All nuts and processed products are in though without salt, such as: tofu, tempeh, green beans, peanuts,
    • All vegetables and fresh fruit without preserved
    • Butter, margarine, fresh, without salt
    • Natural ingredients: ginger, turmeric, laos, etc..

What Should Cooking Method :
Taste of food can be enhanced by using low-sodium seasonings like sugar, cuks, onion, garlic, ginger, turmeric, salam, laos, etc..
Foods that are steamed, sauteed, baked, fried food better than boiled.

What foods can help lower High Blood Pressure / Hypertension ?
  • Tomato juice
  • Starfruit juice fruit
  • Garlic juice
  • Cucumber juice
  • Apple juice
  • Expand the consumption of fibrous food.

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