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Lower High Blood Pressure: 5 Ways

Let’s cover five ways you can lower high blood pressure through dietary changes.

1. Increase your intake of fruits and vegetables

The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet is a very effective meal plan to lower blood pressure. The diet is high in fruits and vegetables, including 4-5 vegetable servings and 4-5 fruit servings everyday.

Fruits and vegetables are rich sources of fiber and phytonutrients essential to heart health and promotion of a lower blood pressure. The more the better!

2. Decrease sodium intake

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