You cook with too much salt:



Excess sodium causes your body to retain more fluid, increasing blood volume. Your heart then has to work harder to move more blood through the vessels, which raises pressure in your arteries. "Too much salt intake is by far the number one cause of hypertension," says Shlofmitz.

Shake the salt out of your diet by eating fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh meat instead of processed and cured, and looking for low-sodium on packaged food labels.

Excess salt can be found in: Packaged foods like tomato sauce, soups, canned food and prepared mixes


Salt alternatives: Garlic powder, onion powder, lime juice, lemon juice

Your portion size is prodigious:

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serving yourself medium to small portion sizes help you recognize your body's "I'm full" cues, plus it's an easy way to cut calories, which can help you lose weight. Extra weight puts extra strain on your heart, which ups your blood pressure, cholesterol, and risk of heart disease. "Getting down to a healthy weight absolutely reduces your risk," says Shlofmitz-and even losing as little as five or 10 pounds makes a difference.

Always serve yourself medium - small portions and eat slowly. The food is not running away now

You drink too much alcohol..shepe, nkwu, schnapps, stout, beer, odeku
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Drinking too much alcohol can raise blood pressure to unhealthy levels. Having more than three drinks in one sitting temporarily increases your blood pressure, but repeated binge drinking can lead to long-term increases.
Heavy drinkers who want to lower blood pressure should slowly reduce how much they drink over one to two weeks. Heavy drinkers who stop suddenly risk developing severe high blood pressure for several days.

Alternative: Moderate drinking: Two drinks a day for men younger than age 65
One drink a day for men age 65 and older
One drink a day for women of any age

You consume too much stimulants:



The caffeine in kola nut increases systolic and diastolic blood pressure by increasing the resistance in the peripheral veins. Kola nut stimulates the central nervous system and may interfere with sleep by inhibiting the neurotransmitters that trigger reduced brain activity with doses of caffeine higher than 400mg per day. Sleep deprivation increases the chances of having high blood pressure.

Some experts say getting less than six hours of sleep a night may raise your risk of hypertension.

Alternatives: Consume in tiny portions early in the day, avoid consumption in the evening.

You use/reuse heated vegetable/cooking oils (Palm oil/ Red oil/ Groud nut oil)




It is important to choose oils such as coconut oil and olive oil, which are be stable enough to resist chemical changes when heated to high temperatures, or you run the risk of damaging your health. One of the ways vegetable oils can inflict damage is by converting your good cholesterol into bad cholesterol—by oxidizing it.

When you cook with polyunsaturated vegetable oils, oxidized cholesterol is introduced into your system. As the oil is heated and mixed with oxygen, it goes rancid. Rancid oil is oxidized oil and should NOT be consumed. it leads directly to vascular disease.

Alternatives: Extra virgin Olive oil, Coconut oil.

Sources: http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/7-surprising-habits-raise-blood-pressure-163300175.html
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/blood-pressure/AN00318
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/10/15/cooking-oil.aspx
http://www.livestrong.com/article/135550-kola-nut-side-effects/
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Op

Thanks for sharing, aniii. Henceforth, I won't be re-using cooking oil.

You are welcome hun.

And also try to use virgin olive oil or cocnut or grape seed oil.. They are the best

A good read. Thank you for the helpful lively knowledge.

you're welcome.

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But I love palm wine

Nice work OP.

I don't do any of this thank God

Aniiii mama......daluuu, nice post! Quite educative!!....learned alot

Ok!

Palm oil,groundnut oil and olive oil i know!
Which one be Virgin oil,Coconut oil and Grape seed oil


Good info!

Fourth to comment! Yay:-D

aniiii: You drink too much alcohol..shepe, nkwu, schnapps, stout, beer, odeku
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Drinking too much alcohol can raise blood pressure to unhealthy levels. Having more than three drinks in one sitting temporarily increases your blood pressure, but repeated binge drinking can lead to long-term increases.
Heavy drinkers who want to lower blood pressure should slowly reduce how much they drink over one to two weeks. Heavy drinkers who stop suddenly risk developing severe high blood pressure for several days.

Alternative: Moderate drinking: Two drinks a day for men younger than age 65
One drink a day for men age 65 and older
One drink a day for women of any age

The bolded no be for where PLATEAU WOMEN dey. Twelve(12) bottles na dey beginning(appetizer) of the show for them.

Its virtually avoiding what has kept us all these years.

Am among those liking plenty salt too

adaobi123: But I love palm wine

sure!!....it's medicinal bt nt palm wine abuse

Health is wealth. This is a nice piece.

Thanks Anii.

Na to dey use fresh oil everytime i wan fry akara...nawaoooo

I LOVE salt... Nothing will put me off of it..

aniiii: You use/reuse heated vegetable/cooking oils (Palm oil/ Red oil/ Groud nut oil)




It is important to choose oils such as coconut oil and olive oil, which are be stable enough to resist chemical changes when heated to high temperatures, or you run the risk of damaging your health. One of the ways vegetable oils can inflict damage is by converting your good cholesterol into bad cholesterol—by oxidizing it.

When you cook with polyunsaturated vegetable oils, oxidized cholesterol is introduced into your system. As the oil is heated and mixed with oxygen, it goes rancid. Rancid oil is oxidized oil and should NOT be consumed. it leads directly to vascular disease.

Alternatives: Extra virgin Olive oil, Coconut oil.

Most families fall for this

I will stop liking too much salt o... I have learnt now that it is not good for my health... Thanks so much @ op

Nice @ least nothing On coca cola....

Nice...I 'd say

adaobi123: But I love palm wine

me too o. *Gyrating* I love palm wine ooo i no go lie........hehe