Center your meal around carbohydrates, such as pastas, rice, beans, or vegetables. Increase fruits and vegetables. Treat meat as one part of the whole meal. Decrease use of fat. Finally, Alice recommends weight loss if you are overweight.
Obesity can make hypertension worse.
Extra adipose tissue means miles of extra capillaries through which the blood must be pumped. Weight loss can be accomplished through aerobic activity. A erobic exercise will burn fat stored in the body. This, along with weight training, will increase your muscle mass, which, in turn, will raise your metabolic rate. Therefore, you will burn more calories throughout the day.