Avocados for Heart

You will have less heart disease, lower blood pressure, less congestion from cholesterol and reduce bad cholesterol levels if you make avocados a part of your weekly meals. Second to olives in fat content and its fat actually have properties that make them work for your benefit. It also contains potassium, magnesium, vitamin C and E, and folic acid. 

Melons and Blood Pressure

Melons such as cantaloupe and honeydew are good source of potssium, which is linked to lower blood pressure and reduce the incidence of heart disease and stroke.

Kiwi and Blood Pressure

Kiwi is an excellend source of potassium, a mineral that helps the heart work more efficiently, and plays a key role in controlling blood pressure. One kiwi has 252 mg of potssium which is 8% of the Daily Value.

Celery and Blood Pressure

Chewing on crunchy vegetables especially celery daily can lower levels of stress hormones in your blood. This allows your blood vessels to expand, giving your blood more room and reducing pressure.

Check Your Numbers

Blood pressure readings between 130/80 and 150/100 are most likely to be inaccurate. For better accuracy, request an ankle-arm ratio (measuring blood pressure around your ankle as well as your upper arm). The ankle reading divided by the arm reading should be higher than 0.9. If it's not, it can mean serious heart trouble for you.

Flaxseeds

Whether in the form of flaxseed oil or flaxseeds, add flax to your diet slowly - too much, too fast can give you gas if you are not used to it. It lowers blood pressure, risk of stroke, fights arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, stomach disorders, and even mental problems. It also protects against cancers of the breast, colon, and prostate.

Pomegranate and Blood Pressure

Drinking as little as 2 ounces of pomegranate juice a day was shown to reduce blood pressure.

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Reduce Blood Pressure

Well, there are many methods to reduce the blood pressure, but this one I found it interesting.

Taking a dose of 2 tbsp of apple cider vinegar and 2 tbsp of honey in a glass of water (room temperature) with breakfast each day is believed to normalize blood pressure while lowering cholesterol.