Do Food and Alcohol Affect Blood Pressure?
Food and alcohol have been shown to have significant effects on blood pressure. More important, unlike other risk factors for developing hypertension—such as your family medical history, age, gender, and race—nutrition is one that you can control. Along with regular exercise, stress reduction, and not smoking, healthy eating and drinking habits can have positive results: • If you have normal blood pressure, you may avoid ever having hypertension. • If you have mild hypertension, you may avoid having to take medication to control it. • If you have moderate to severe hypertension, you may avoid having to take as much medication to control it. Nutrition factors that are known to contribute to high blood pressure, or hypertension, include: document.getElementById(‘adsense_placeholder_2’).innerHTML = document.getElementById(‘adsense_ad_2_hidden’).innerHTML; • Being overweight. Excess weight increases blood pressure—and raises the risk of developing diabetes, another contributing factor to h
