Can we prevent high blood pressure?

Can we prevent high blood pressure? When we talk preventing high blood pressure, we talk about risk factors.  Some risk factors we cannot change (our inherited genes and family history of high blood pressure).  We cannot change our age.  The things we can modify involves lifestyle behaviors.  These include

·        Exercising

·        Keeping our weight within a normal level. If we are overweight, we can work to improve our weight.

·        Not Smoking—smoking is believed to harm our cardiovascular system

·        Decreasing salt in our diet –limiting salt helps lower our blood pressure because salt holds extra fluids in our body

·        Managing our Stress

·        Drinking too much alcohol (recommended maximum one drink/day per women, two drinks/day for men

http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/guide/blood-pressure-causes