Researchers collected daily urine samples from almost 3,000 study participants. People with the highest level of sodium in the urine, 20 percent more likely to suffer strokes, heart attacks or other forms of cardiovascular disease. However, participants with the highest ratio of sodium to potassium in the urine, increased the probability of heart disease by 50 percent.

To reduce blood pressure, most adults need to consume 4.7 grams of potassium a day. The majority of adults consume approximately half of this amount. Food, particularly rich in potassium are: potatoes, yogurt, lima, bananas and tomato sauce.

In the United States estimate that about 30% of deaths of cardiovascular system was linked with tobacco smoking. This is due to the fact that smoking – the main cause of coronary heart disease, which is reflected in the narrowing of the coronary arteries feeding the heart. This applies particularly to the young.

Most people know that there is a connection between smoking and respiratory diseases and lung cancer. But do you know the relationship of smoking and high blood pressure?

The risk of myocardial infarction increases with the intensity of smoking, and the more cigarettes a day do you smoke, the higher the risk. For example, if a person smokes 1 pack of cigarettes per day, the risk of heart disease is increased three-fold. Female smokers, who also take oral contraceptives, have high risk of heart disease, peripheral arteries disease and stroke.

Nicotine, which is present in tobacco:

* Reduces the level of oxygen in the tissues of the heart

* It increases blood pressure and heart rate

* Increases blood clotting

* Destroy cells of the coronary arteries and other blood vessels

Maybe it’s time to think, if you don’t want to suffer from high blood pressure?

If you have a very high blood pressure, you may find some symptoms, such as:

*Severe headache
*Fatigue or dizziness
*Vision problems
*Chest pain
*Shortness of breath
*Irregular heartbeat
*Blood in the urine

If you find one of these symptoms, immediately consult a doctor. Perhaps you have a hypertensive crisis, which can lead to heart attack or stroke.

High blood pressure can lead to serious diseases such as stroke, heart disease, kidney failure and eye diseases.

Although we still don’t know exactly what causes high blood pressure, still known for a number of specific factors, which are often the cause of the disease.

We also know that if their control, the high blood pressure can be reduced to normal levels, and as a result to stop using drugs.

Thus, high blood pressure should not be a permanent problem. I also don’t think that patients suffering from hypertension, one has to choose between taking drugs before the end of life or early death from stroke or heart attack.

After reading this, do not stop taking your prescription drugs. Before an attempt by the lower value of blood pressure, you should first consult a doctor. Changing your lifestyle, regularly come for a visit, respectively, to modify, and dosage of drugs. If you want to reduce consumption of tablets, it should make your doctor, and in doing so he should carefully monitor your blood pressure.

What you can not eat with high blood pressure?

Must be remembered that hypertension can not starve and sit on a rigid diet.
Diet with high pressure is to restrict certain foods and replace them with others.
For example, you need:
- To limit their salt intake to 3-5 grams per day;
- To limit consumption of water up to 1-1,2 liters per day, including soups;
- Replace animal fats with vegetable;
- Abandon the simple carbohydrates (sugar, sweets).
Categorically not use (with high blood pressure):
- Alcoholic beverages;
- Offal (brains, liver);
- Smoked, salted, spicy and spicy dishes;
- Fatty fish, meat, cheeses, whole dairy products;
- Muffins, cakes with rich cream;
- Coffee, strong tea.

What you can eat with high blood pressure?

If you have been diagnosed with hypertension you can eat:
- Boiled lean meats or fish;
- Cereals (oats, buckwheat, millet);
- Meat soups no more than 2 times per week;
- Soups dairy, vegetables, fruit;
- More fruits and vegetables in raw or cooked;
- Low-fat cheese and cottage cheese, low-fat dairy products;
- Black bread, no more than 200 grams per day;
- A bit of potatoes and beans;
- Foods rich in potassium and magnesium (dried apricots, apricots, apples).

How to eat after a hypertensive crisis?

Therapeutic diet number 10 is designed to normalize blood circulation and function of the cardiovascular system, liver and kidneys, improve metabolism.

Basic principles of diet:

- Reduction of the energy value at the expense of fat and carbohydrates in part;
- Limiting the number of salt;
- Reduction of fluid intake;
- The restriction burdens the gastrointestinal tract, causing swelling – the high content of potassium, magnesium, lipotropic (dairy, vegetables, fruits).
Contents diet:
1. Bread from wheat flour 1 st and 2 nd grades yesterday, slightly dried.
2. Salads of fresh vegetables, vinaigrettes, vegetable, eggplant caviar, vegetable salad with the addition of boiled meat, seafood, boiled fish, fish in aspic.
3. Vegetarian soups with different cereals, vegetables, potatoes, fruit, dairy products, can borscht, hash, beetroot soup.
4. Vegetables boiled, baked and raw: potatoes, cauliflower, carrots, beets, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, green peas, green onion, dill, parsley.
5. Dishes from cereals to water or milk (porridge, puddings, meat balls, dumplings, etc.), cooked pasta.
6. Boiled eggs and steam-baked omelets, protein omelet, I’m also for cooking. Only one egg per day.
7. Dishes of cheese, dairy products (kefir, yogurt), sour cream and cream in small quantities.
8. Creamy and vegetable oil.
9. Lean fish (perch, cod, pike, carp, carp, saffron cod) boiled or lightly fried.
10. Lean beef, veal, rabbit, chicken, turkey cutlet dishes from the masses or boiled meat (a piece), doctoral and dietary sausage.
11. Spices: dill, parsley, bay leaf, vanilla, citric acid, cinnamon.
12. Fresh fruits and berries; kissels, compote of fresh fruit and dried fruits, can also be mousse, Sambuca, jelly, milk kissels, creams.
13. Honey, jam, candy without chocolate.
14. Weak tea, tea with milk, coffee beverages with milk, fruit and vegetable juices, broth hips.
Prohibited: fresh bread, buns, pancakes, fritters, pungent, fatty and salty snacks, smoked meats, sausages, canned meat and fish, soups and broth and mushroom broth, salted, marinated and pickled vegetables, spinach, sorrel, radish, radish, garlic, mushrooms, beans, eggs, hard-boiled, salted and fatty cheese, fat – cooking, beef, pork, mutton, fat, salt fish, geese, ducks, fatty meats, liver, kidneys, brains, mustard, pepper, horseradish , chocolate, cakes, black coffee, carbonated drinks.
Feed on dosage, five times a day.

- Calories – 2500 – 2600 calories a day.
- Protein – 90 g (55-60% of animals);
- Fats – 70 g (25-30% vegetation);
- Carbohydrates – 350-400 g;