How can I lower my blood pressure?

For all of us leading a healthy lifestyle means taking regular exercise, healthy eating - a diet low in fat and salt and high in fruit and vegetables, being the right weight for your height, consuming alcohol sensibly and giving up the evil weed. Do these and your risk of having a heart attack or stroke in the future reduces.

What else will help to lower my blood pressure?

Fortunately there is a wealth of quality information about things you can do now to begin to understand, lower and control your blood pressure as well as taking prescription drugs and medicines.

NutriGenie Lower High Blood Pressure Software

This software is based on the report of the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. 

Features:

• Can automatically generate nutritious and balanced daily menus based on calorie level.
• Has exercise database with caloric expenditures for over 100 activities
• Has nutrient data for approximately 8,000 food items
• Exellent food database management utilities and graphic analyses of diet.
• Has nutrition guidelines from US Surgeon General

It is an excellent tool to complement any treatment for hypertension. NutriGenie Lower High Blood Pressure is the most sophisticated and comprehensive dietary management system available. Whether you follow the carbohydrate counting approach, or fat gram counting, or ADA food exchange system for weight control, this program will save you many hours of tedious planning and record keeping. New and unique features to organize food database make food selection a breeze: user can hide and reshow foods, assign them to various food groups or meals, search, sort and selectively print nutrients. No other nutrition software on the market gives users comparable insight into their diet. In particular, the program provides the unique analysis of K Factor in your diet: Intakes of potassium and sodium have been shown to correlate more strongly to blood pressure than any other dietary factor. The K Factor (ratio of potassium to sodium) is a remarkably useful approach to detect the potassium-sodium imbalance in your diet. NutriGenie Lower High Blood Pressure is also an excellent tool for monitoring your nutrition when you follow the DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) from the National Institutes of Health. See also our companion software: The DASH Diet.

 NutriGenie Lower High Blood Pressure Software for Windows from $49.00 at Amazon.com

A new device available is from RESPeRATE and available through Amazon .com

RESPeRATE is the only FDA-cleared, non-drug, medical device clinically proven to lower high blood pressure with no side effects.

RESPeRATE utilizes a patented technology to deliver certain kinds of breathing exercises. When these exercises are performed for as little as 15 minutes a day, 3-4 times a week they have been shown to significantly lower blood pressure with no side effects.

These therapeutic breathing exercises are difficult to effectively perform without the interactive, personalized coaching that RESPeRATE provides.

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