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High Blood Pressure and Foods to avoid? Well the answer to that one is obvious isn?t it? Those that bring you nothing but harm!
OK joking apart what can we do to make sure that we stay on the safe side of food?
Well the obvious ones are those that have high levels of salt or certain types of Fat or Cholesterol.
I say certain types of fat because a great many folks out there just believe in a total low fat diet whereas there are certain types of fat that are actually beneficial to us.
The ?bad? fats that we consume i.e. the saturated and trans fats?increase the risk for certain diseases. The ?good? fats?monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats can actually form part of a diet that can lower disease risk. The key to a healthy diet is to substitute good fats for bad fats?and to avoid trans fats.
So if we are to sum up in a basic few words, the total amount of things like fat you eat, whether this is reduced or you eat lots of it doesn?t really impact upon High Blood Pressure (it might impact upon other aspects of your diet such as your weight, which in turn??.).
What really matters is the type of fats that you consume.
So, along with Salt (which we?ll cover elsewhere), Fats are amongst the main types of High Blood Pressure Foods to avoid.