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High Blood Pressure

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So I’m looking at the reviews of this book over at Amazon, and while it gets lots of praise, there’s a very big omission — no one says that it actually worked for them. If it does, I’ll pick up a copy, but that’s my primary criteriaon — does it work? Not what her credentials are.

In my case, I don’t eat bananas because I think they’re too starchy. There are other ways of getting potassium (one thing I’ve done is to not only cut way back on salt, but to only use sea salt, which also provides other salts than just sodium chloride).

[Update a while later]

Also, I’m not sure there’s any evidence that exercise helps.

5 thoughts on “High Blood Pressure”

  2. High blood pressure is not nearly as dangerous as having thick blood. After a certain age it is probably a good idea to take an aspirin a day. Eating fish occasionally is also a good idea.

    If you want to increase your potassium intake you can probably go to Walgreens and buy some Potassium Cloride tablets or something. I used to take those. You can also try increasing your calcium intake by drinking milk or eating yogurt. I have heard that reduces blood pressure somewhat as well.

    Exercise is good for a lot of things but you have to take care to get hydrated properly. If what you drink afterwards does not have an appropriate salt balance you will get in more trouble than if you did not exercise to begin with.

    2. Looking at their catalog they have this “Nature Made Potassium Gluconate 550 mg Dietary”. That should do the trick.

  3. It is incredibly hard to cut back on salt. Want a tortilla? Too much salt. Bread? Too much salt. Thanks goodness I found a good recepie for taco seasoning.

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