Guide to natural cures for hypertension

Hypertension:
Hypertension means that your blood is exerting too much force on your arteries and is making your heart's job--pumping blood--more difficult than it should be. Your heart is a powerful and efficient muscle, but if it's forced to work too hard for too long it can enlarge, wear out or fail, causing a heart attack, stroke, aneurysm... and an early death.

Natural Cures:

Quit Smoking: Smoking narrows the blood arteries and capillaries and increases hypertension.

Lose weight: It has been proven than systolic and diastolic blood pressure is linked to your body mass index. The more overweight you are the greater the chance that you will develop high blood pressure.

Limit alcohol consumption: Excessive alcohol consumption is not only bad for you liver; it raises your blood pressure.

Eat more fruits and vegetables: Fruits and vegetables are the best natural cures for hypertension. Especially beneficial in helping to lower high blood pressure are fruits and vegetables that are high in potassium.

Potassium: If you can increase your potassium intake to 2500 a day or more, eating natural foods, you will likely see a drop in your hypertension. Limit your salt intake: One way of doing this is to replace your use of salt with a salt substitute such as potassium chloride.

Exercise: Studies have shown that moderate exercise can help to control and limit the buildup of plaque in the arteries.