Essentials of Hypertension Diet Therapy

Author: Peng Mingquan
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Hypertension is a common syndrome characterized by elevated systemic arterial blood pressure, which can lead to vascular, brain, heart, kidney, and other organ damage. To understand the causes of hypertension, it is essential to understand what blood pressure is. Blood pressure refers to the lateral pressure exerted by blood flowing in blood vessels on the vessel walls, measured as values on the brachial artery using a blood pressure gauge, with units of millimeters of mercury (mmHg) or kilopascals (kPa). This book briefly introduces the causes of hypertension, dietary do's and don'ts, "Four Factors" dietary approaches, and the principles and cooking methods of therapeutic and medicinal dietary recipes. It also selects 150 hypertension-friendly dietary and medicinal recipes, categorized by cooking methods, detailing their formula composition, ingredient selection and storage, preparation methods, indications, and efficacy. Brief explanations of usage precautions and dosage are provided. To facilitate reader selection and use, the book lists common medicinal and edible ingredients for hypertension dietary recipes, including their synonyms, properties, functions, dosages, and precautions, and introduces the basic preparation techniques of medicinal dietary soups.