Lowering High Blood Pressure With Raw Food

If you or a loved one has high blood pressure or hypertension, be encouraged: this can most of the time be overcome by changing some things in your life. Given the right nourishment, our bodies are naturally self-healing; unfortunately most people do not know this. True, many "know" that diet and exercise can help with lowering high blood pressure, but what many do not understand is that blood pressure can be normalized, and even quicker results are often obtained with the raw food diet!

Since knowing the risks of hypertension as well as the side effects of some treatments can motivate one to live a healthier lifestyle, I will list some of the risks and side effects here, but this list is by no means comprehensive.

Some of the risks of hypertension are strokes, dementia, kidney failure, aneurysm, eye damage, bone loss, sexual dysfunction, trouble sleeping. The side effects of course depend on what medications you are taking, and can vary from person to person, but include: heart attack, coughing, tiredness, insomnia, impotence, constipation, and bone loss, which is of particular concern to women.

In light of these risks and side effects alone, lowering high blood pressure with raw food provides a solution to this health threat, and raw food requires no prescription!

Recently my husband had his blood pressure checked during one of my prenatal appointments. He had been concerned that he might test high. Sure enough it was 130 over 90, which is borderline high blood pressure. However this time, the concern was increased, since we were applying for life insurance and did not want to end up paying higher rates or being denied. Knowing that the raw food diet has proven results for lowering blood pressure, he decided to "go raw" for at least the next few days, eating nothing but raw foods.

Exactly 4 days later, after being on the raw food diet for 3 full days, he was retested by a nurse who came to our home for the medical screening for life insurance. The nurse was required to take his blood pressure three times and take an average. To my husband's delight, all three tests were normal, averaging 100/72! If this doesn't demonstrate that lowering high blood pressure with raw food can work quickly, I don't know what does!

Of course, one should check with their doctor or health practitioner before stopping medications. However, since the statistics are that one in three Americans have hypertension, and a third of these people do not even know that they have it, eating raw foods just makes sense for lowering high blood pressure, and a host of other diseases, too. To obtain a book containing over 400 easy to prepare delicious raw food recipes, go to the website below.