Skip this: Arby's Sausage Gravy Biscuit

This is one breakfast you can skip, with 1040 calories, 60 g of fat and 4699 mg sodium! That's almost 3-4 times exceeded the recommendation. Remember excessive sodium cause fluid retention, constriction of the blood vessel which lead to high blood pressure. Your breakfast is the most important meal of the day, don't blow it.

Eat this: Celery

According to the Hypertension Institute at St. Thomas Hospital , eating four sticks of celery a day can lower blood pressure—about 6 points systolic and 3 points diastolic. Celery contain phytochemicals in called phthalides, it relax muscle tissue in artery walls and increase bloodflow. Celery also fills you up with almost no calories. photo credit: •Saif•

High Blood pressure

High Blood pressure also known as hypertension has been dubed the silent killer because it can go uncontrolled with no outward symptoms.  Hypertension increases your risk for serious health problems including heart attack, and stroke.  Fortunately getting a blood pressure taken is easy and accessable(most pharmacies in grocery stores even have a testing device available).  And more importantly there are steps you can take to prevent this silent killer from raging its wrath upon you!

1.) Get to and/or maintain a health weight

2.) Get physically active 5days w/30+minutes is a good goal to set

3.) If you smoke, stop there are lots of programs out there and the more times you try the more likely statisticly you are to be successful!

4.) Keep salt/sodium intake to a minimum; just stopping to add salt very possibly wont be enough, processed foods and restaurants especially fast food restaurants are very high in sodium cutting down on them can make a huge impact on intake. 5.) Make sure you are getting enough potassium rich foods: bananas, Cantaloupe, tomatoes, and spinich just to name a few.

6.) Maintain healthy level of vitamin D

7.) Keep alcohol consumption minimal

8.) Get stress level under control (the exercise should help with this)

For more in depth explanation Mayoclinic.com lays it out very well.

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