Rising Blood Pressure
Health Snippet from Australian Men’s Health Magazine April 2006
Rising Blood Pressure
SOME MEN ARE ALWAYS close to their boiling points. And new research from the Netherlands may explain why. The scientists discovered that besides the obvious factors – obesity, lack of physical activity and high salt consumption – diets containing too little potassium were the primary cause of hypertension. In their analysis, the scientists used 3500mg daily as the cut-off for defining a low potassium intake.
The average intake for a man in his thirties? Only 3100mg.
THE FIX: add half-a-cup of beans, a banana or a handful of raisins to your daily diet. Each will increase your potassium intake by about 400mg a day, boosting you about that 3500mg benchmark.
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