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I often get asked by my clients what should I be eating to lower my blood pressure. The
typical advice you get from your doctor for ways to lower your cholesterol would be to
lose weight if you're not in a healthy weight range; reduce the bad cholesterol in your
diet; reduce the amount of salt in your diet and maybe add a few vitamins like vitamin
D to your diet regimen. One of the ways you can reduce salt in your diet is by moving
away from canned and processed foods. The hidden sodium in many of our canned and processed
foods is the way that a lot of salt unknowingly creeps into our diet. So one of the ways you
can effectively reduce the amount of salt in your diet is by going more with natural
whole foods. So some of the natural whole foods that would help lower your blood pressure
are things like spinach, sunflower seeds, beans, baked white potatoes, bananas and soybeans
and finally, dark chocolate which has a lot of antioxidants. One website I refer my clients
to look for a complete dietary approach to reduce your hypertension is DASH which is
Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. And this will give you a whole host of dietary
suggestions and meal planning that you can implement to naturally reduce your blood pressure.