Eat to Beat High Blood Pressure By Dr Sarah Brewer and Michelle Berriedale-Johnson

Eat to Beat High Blood Pressure
Natural Self-help for Hypertension, Including a Nutritional Guide with 60 Delicious Recipes

Whether or not you develop high blood pressure (hypertension) is influenced by several factors. These are your genes, the way you eat and the other aspects of your lifestyle such as the amount of exercise you take, whether or not you smoke and the amount of alcohol you drink. Eating to beat high blood pressure is not only possible, it is one of the mainstays of effective treatment.

This book looks at how various dietaty changes can help to reduce a raised blood pressure and lessen you risk of developing associated complications such as coronary heart disease and stroke.

This accessible guide, written by respected media Dr Sarah Brewer and culinary expert Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, provides a clear nutritional plan to help you avoid and control high blood pressure.

• Understand what causes high blood pressure


• Learn how to control symptoms


• Change your eating habits the easy way


• Find out which orthodox and complimentary treatments will help


• Eat and enjoy the right foods with 60 delicious recipes

The book is divided into 4 parts and contains the follwoing chapters:

Part One The Facts about High Blood Pressure
Chapter 1 - What is High Blood Pressure
Chapter 2 - Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment of High Blood Pressure

Part Two High Blood Pressure and Diet
Chapter 3 - Atherosclerosis, Cholesterol and Dietary Fats
Chapter 4 - High Blood Pressure and Olive Oil
Chapter 5 - High Blood Pressure and Oily Fish
Chapter 6 - High Blood Pressure, Folic Acid and Homocysteine
Chapter 7 - High Blood Pressure and Salt
Chapter 8 - High Blood Pressure and Fruit and Vegetables
Chapter 9 - High Blood Pressure and Garlic
Chapter 10 - High Blood Pressure and Tea
Chapter 11- High Blood Pressure and Red Wine

Part Three The Recipes
Chapter 12 - Introduction
Chapter 13 - Soups and Starters
Chapter 14 - Fish
Chapter 15 - Meat and Poultry
Chapter 16 - Vegetables and Vegetarian Dishes
Chapter 17 - Desserts
Chapter 18 - Baking

Part Four Taking it Further
Chapter 19 - High Blood Pressure and Food Supplememnts
Chapter 20 - High Blood Pressure and Healthy Weight
Chapter 21 - High Blood Pressure and Lifestyle

Dr Sarah Brewer is a qualified doctor, health writer and successful media columist. She advocates an integrated approach to health and shows readers how to improve their health and well-being by combining lifestyle changes with orthodox and complementary medical treatments.

Michelle Berriedale-Johnson is a well known special diets cookery writer. Her newsletter, The Inside Story, is read by over 150,000 dietians, nurses and health professionals.

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