365-Day Diet Plan Most Suitable for Hypertension

Author: Zuo Zhigang
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: Supplements are better than medicine; enjoy a healthy life every day. 365 kinds of food, 365 kinds of therapies. The key to lowering high blood pressure is what you eat!
Medical Expert Guidance: Basic knowledge, health care tips, diagnostic methods, dietary therapy.
High blood pressure 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 high blood pressure, it is essential to know what blood pressure is. Blood pressure refers to the lateral pressure exerted by blood flowing in blood vessels on the vessel walls, measured as a value on the brachial artery using a sphygmomanometer, with units of millimeters of mercury (mmHg) or kilopascals (kPa). This book briefly introduces the causes of high blood pressure, dietary do's and don'ts, "Four-Element" dietary principles, and the composition principles and cooking methods of therapeutic and medicinal dietary recipes. It also selects 365 dietary and medicinal recipes suitable for high blood pressure, categorized by cooking methods, and provides detailed information on their formula composition, ingredient selection and storage, preparation methods, indications, and efficacy. Brief explanations of usage precautions and dosage are also included. To facilitate reader selection and use, the book lists common medicinal and edible ingredients for high blood pressure recipes at the end, along with their synonyms, properties, functions, dosages, and precautions. It also introduces the basic cooking techniques for medicinal soup ingredients.