Experts from the United States that represent the University of North Carolina at chapel hill, announced a method that enables a person with high blood pressure less than 4 months to eliminate the need to use medications, and also reduce the chance of heart attacks and strokes. According to researchers, with a high probability to achieve this goal will be enough to eat right and pay due attention to physical exercise.
Scientists invited to participate in the study, 129 men and women aged 40 to 80 years, which are not only faced with high blood pressure, but overweight or even obese. Approximately half of the participants had been prescribed medication for hypertension, but over the 16 weeks of the experiment no one would receive them.
Participants were divided into three groups. Those who were identified in the first group, under the supervision of experts were engaged in physical exercises as well as ate in accordance with the DASH diet involving a large number of plant foods and reducing consumption of red meat and salt. The second group was limited to proper nutrition, and in the third their way of life has not changed in any way.
The DASH diet was specifically designed to combat hypertension, and many researchers consider it one of the most beneficial for overall health along with the Mediterranean diet.
As it turned out, among the study participants, combining proper nutrition with exercise, at the end of the experiment again to make lowering the pressure medications it took only 15 percent. Among those for whom changes in lifestyle affected only diet, there were 23 percent. Those who are over 16 weeks did not change his life, later still needed medications to maintain healthy blood pressure — as in the beginning of the study, those among the participants of the third group was about half.
Also, the study participants of the first and second group, in contrast to those who hit the third, during the experiment lost weight.
On the obtained findings, the scientists said during the conference held in Chicago.