6 Steps to Lower Blood Pressure

18309 For Asian, high blood pressure is strongly related to stroke. Even though there are medicine to lower the blood pressure, prevention is better than cure. Here are 6 steps to prevent high blood pressure:

  1. Stop smoking.
  2. Reduce your weight
  3. Reduce alcohol drink intake
  4. Increase vegetable consumption
  5. Reduce the intake of saturated fat (e.g. animal fat from butter and lard)
  6. Reduce the intake of salt

Source:

Guan Ming Daily (07-Nov-2008)