Where does this start? You can meet all kinds of problems on the internet or in the clinic every day. Can you eat this for hypertension? Can you eat that?
Dr. Wang said: You can eat anything with high blood pressure, as long as you grasp the principle of low salt. There is no absolute taboo on any food, saying that you can't eat any food with high blood pressure.
Why do you say that hypertension can eat watermelon? Because habits do not belong to high-salt foods, habits belong to fruits. Friends with high blood pressure encourage eating fruits, and long-term intake of fruits is also conducive to stable blood pressure. Moreover, watermelon itself contains potassium, and the diet with hypertension is low in sodium and high in potassium, which meets the requirements of the diet with hypertension. Let's review the diet of hypertension by the way: low in salt and high in potassium, relatively low in oil, low in fat and low in sugar.
There is no requirement for specific food, and all kinds of coarse grains, fruits and vegetables are encouraged to eat more.
Some people say that watermelon can lower blood pressure? Really?
Then ask this person, how many habits can lower blood pressure? Do you want to eat every day? Anyone who says that food can directly cure diseases is nonsense. A healthy diet is absolutely beneficial to the prevention and recovery of diseases. Take hypertension as an example. For patients with mild hypertension, it may be possible to get rid of high-salt diet, high-oil diet and high-sugar diet, and gradually eat more healthy food to restore blood pressure to normal. But this is not eating food to lower blood pressure. Instead of eating unhealthy food, it is better to eat healthy food and gradually form a blood pressure balance.
Watermelon has diuretic effect, which helps to lower blood pressure after urination. Watermelon is rich in potassium, which can resist salt-sensitive hypertension and promote sodium excretion, thus helping to lower blood pressure and protect blood vessels from damage. But this is relative. It can't be said that eating watermelon with high blood pressure is normal.
There are more and more people with high blood pressure, so a healthy diet must be started from an early age, and it is not until the blood pressure rises in their thirties and forties that they think of a healthy diet. Only drugs can lower blood pressure at this time!
With. The specific etiology and pathological process of hypertension will not be discussed. There are primary and secondary factors, and the secondary factors are mostly kidneys. The main reasons are related to smoking, obesity and high-salt diet. Therefore, in terms of diet, it should be noted that the dietary advice for patients with hypertension is a low-salt and low-fat diet and more vegetarian food.
Now talk about the efficacy of watermelon. Patients with hypertension can eat watermelon, but they need a proper amount.
Eating a lot of watermelon will increase blood volume in a short time, leading to an increase in blood pressure. Watermelon has the functions of softening and dilating blood vessels, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, relieving vexation and quenching thirst, and promoting diuresis and detumescence. Therefore, eating watermelon in moderation can lower blood pressure and cholesterol and promote metabolism; It also has health care effect on nephritis and cystitis. Watermelon also contains a lot of vitamins, which makes it have the functions of balancing blood pressure, regulating heart function and preventing cancer.
So from all aspects, watermelon is good for hypertension, whether it is primary or secondary, but it should be moderate.