I am a 21 year old male. I recently had my blood pressure tested. The results were 139/76. At 6 ft, I currently weigh 218 lbs. I feel comfortable with my health but the numbers do seem a little high. What can I do to lower my blood pressure? How much do I need to lower it?Thursday, October 6, 2011
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I am a 21 year old male. I recently had my blood pressure tested. The results were 139/76. At 6 ft, I currently weigh 218 lbs. I feel comfortable with my health but the numbers do seem a little high. What can I do to lower my blood pressure? How much do I need to lower it?
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April - thats a good pesure for u , i go to diaylsis with my mom and it gets higher then that but for u thats pretty good
ReplyDeletesummergirl77756 - 120/80 or less is considered normal. You can eat healthy foods and limit your salt intake. Also, smoking and alcohol can increase BP. Exercise also helps lower BP
ReplyDeletegangadharan nair - Your body mass index is 29.6 and you are overweight.
ReplyDeleteYou have got prehypertension. Systolic BP should be less than 120 mmHg.
Your pulse pressure is 139--76 = 63 mmHg. Optimum pulse pressure is 40 mmHg. Pulse pressure more than 40 mmHg is abnormal.
Adopt DASH diet (Mediterranean diet). Eat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet, which includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish, vegetables, poultry, and egg whites. Use monounsaturated oils such as olive, peanut, and canola oils or polyunsaturated oils such as corn, safflower, soy, sunflower, cottonseed, and soybean oils. Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.