6 FOODS TO AVOID IF YOU HAVE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE POPULARLY KNOWN AS HYPERTENSION

What is high blood pressure?
Blood pressure measures the force of the blood pushing against the walls of your arteries. Your blood pressure rises with each heartbeat and falls when your heart relaxes between beats.
While the number can fluctuate from minute to minute with changes in posture, exercise, stress or food, it should normally be less than 120/80 mmHg. If higher than this, you could be diagnosed of high blood pressure by your doctor. (Hg is the pressure that one millimeter (mm) of mercury (Hg) exerts.)
The good news is that most people can bring down their blood pressure naturally by adjusting their diet.
We've compiled a list of 6 foods to avoid if you have high blood pressure or just want to minimize your chances of getting high blood pressure.

(Warning: This list may include foods you love to eat)

1.Baked Goods
Those packed glossy sweet goods that sometimes come with colorful icing and sprinkles are enticing, but with salted saturated fats, sugar, and sodium-rich leavening agents, they are anything but good for you.
Eating too many baked goods frequently like pastries, cakes, and cookies can also lead to obesity, which aggravates the high blood pressure problem further. This is a no.

2. Canned Tomato Products
Both canned tomato sauce and canned tomato juice are loaded with sodium. One cup of tomato juice has 680 milligrams of sodium, while one serving of spaghetti with meat sauce contains 1,300 milligrams of sodium.
To make matters worse, it's hard to only have one serving of tomato sauce because it's even harder to have just one serving of pasta. Most people don't know that one serving of pasta is one-half cup of cooked pasta. Restaurants regularly serve four cups of pasta per dish, which is a whopping 8 servings.

3. Noodles
Cup noodles or any another pre- packaged noodle meal is popular among college students and lazy adults but highly damaging to your body. One package of generic noodles contains 14 grams of fat and a whopping 1,580 mg of sodium. The tiny flavor/seasoning packet that comes with it is the major culprit, containing most of the sodium.


4. Alcohol
Everybody loves happy hour, but alcohol consumption actively causes blood pressure to elevate. It also damages the walls of the blood vessels while simultaneously increasing risks of further complications, making it a horrible choice for adults with high blood pressure. Don't do it. Beer bellies aren't cute.

5.Donuts
Oh no! The donuts you love are indeed one of the foods to avoid if you have high blood pressure or just want to be a healthy person. The ring-shaped fried dough snack is worse than many other snacks in the market. And no, you can't just have one because one donut can have more than 300 calories with 42% fat and 54% carbs.
Being fried, it contains lots of saturated and trans fats. more trans fat than peanut butter, chocolate bars or even chips. For all of these reasons and more, donuts need to be avoided for a healthy heart.

6. Whole Milk
Didn't expect to see this one on the list, did you? Milk is a great source of calcium, but high-fat dairy sources, like whole milk, provides you more fat than you need. One cup serving of whole milk has about 8 grams of fat, 5 grams of which are saturated.
Saturated fats are worse for you than other types and has been linked to heart disease. Try using 2% milk or, even better, 1% or skim.


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