Smart Woman - Tips to Lower Blood Pressure
By: Jacob Martin
Updated: March 4, 2013
One in three adults in the U.S. - that's 68 million people - has high blood pressure. It's the primary cause of death for 348,000 Americans each year. Here are three ways to lower your blood pressure right now.
Sixty-nine
percent of people who have their first heart attack, 77 percent of
people who have their first stroke, and 74 percent of people with
chronic heart failure have high blood pressure! We have three simple
steps to lower yours before it's too late.
Step
one: eat soy! Nineteen milligrams of soy a day and you may be able to
lower your systolic blood pressure, the top number, by an average of
5.5
millimeters HG. Step
two: go easy on the pain killers. A
new study shows taking a few doses of NSAIDs, found in ibuprofen,
raises systolic blood pressure by five millimeters HG.
Step
three: listen to slow-paced music. Recent research found that hearing
a melodic Mozart
during a visit to the doctor lowered blood pressure for an average of
6.5
millimeters HG for forty hypertension patients.
Also,
go easy on the salt. Reducing the average population's sodium
intake from 3300 MG to 2300 MG per day may reduce cases of high blood
pressure by 11 million and save 18 billion dollars spent on health
care annually.
