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Best Foods that
Lower Blood Pressure Naturally

Find the key to eating foods that lower blood pressure. Learn how to make the necessary changes in your diet to lower blood pressure naturally.

1. The most important thing you can do overall is to avoid all cooked fats and refined oils. Choose the leanest cut of meat possible, preferably eating only poultry and fish. Never fry foods, heat oils or eat foods that are fried.

All oils used should be either extra virgin olive oil or first cold pressed oils. See more about healthy fats here.

2. Stay away from refined sugar and anything containing it. Eat plenty of fresh fruits rather than desserts. Make your own condiments, ketchup, mayonnaise, salad dressings, and sauces to avoid the ones in the stores which are sugar-laden and made with refined or hydrogenated oils.

3. Drink only pure water, never tap water or hard water.

4. Eat plenty of fresh vegetables, preferably organic. Vegetables give your body the fiber, vitamins and minerals it needs. Lunch and dinner, have two thirds of your plate be vegetables, one third protein and carbohydrates.

5. Consume an adequate amount of good quality protein. These essential amino acids are the building blocks of the entire body and especially the heart.

6. Consume enough essential fatty acids. We do need some fats, but make sure they are good quality fats. Sardines, salmon, walnuts in moderation, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, first cold pressed organic canola oil or flax seed oil. Be careful with storing flax seed oil as it goes rancid very quickly. Refrigerate and don't keep it too long.

7. Avoid table salt and everything that contains it. Again, as with fats, we do need some salt. Simply ensure that when you are preparing your meals you use only naturally sun-dried sea salt. This is actually one of the foods that lower blood pressure and sun-dried sea salt is perfect for your hypertension diet. Regular table salt is detrimental as is the refined table salt found in any processed, packaged foods.

Also, ordinary sea salt is always refined and heated to extreme temperatures, so use only sun-dried sea salt.

8. Eat high quality complex carbohydrates. This is whole grains, grains you can see with your eye; brown rice, quinoa, barley, oats. Choose pasta and bread made with the ancient grains of spelt and kamut which are more nutritious and higher in protein than wheat. Avoid any foods with white flour, white rice.