You can either go to the doctor to check it or just ask your family members to help you to check using the sphygmomanometer (digital one is more practical but less acurate). Keep a record of it.
2. Know what your weight should be. Keep it at that level or below.
Obesity is a big NO. I know it can be hard sometimes, okay.. not sometimes but MOST of the times not to eat those delicious foods. I will write more about this issue later.
3. Don't use excessive salt in cooking or at meals. Avoid salty foods.
In China, this one is really hard to do if you keep on eating outside, the best you can do is eat home-cook meal.
4. Eat a low-fat diet
Eat more veggies and fruits, less junk food. Try to eat in veggies restaurant, they have really interesting menu (looks like and tastes like meat but actually it's not, usually they replaced the meat with mushrooms). But if you really crave to eat in those famous yummy fast food restaurants, you can eat there once a month only.
5. Don't smoke cigarettes or use tobacco products.
Never do any good to your health, especially for your lungs. It's a risk factor for hypertension and besides you might develop a disease called COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) after smoking for more than 20 or 30 years. It's irreversible, one thing you can do to stop the disease from becoming much worse is cessation of smoking.
6. Take your medicine exactly as prescribed. Don't run out of pills even for a single day.
7. Keep your appointments with the doctor.
8. Follow your doctors advice about exercise.
You'll be healthy physically as well as mentally by doing so.
9. Make certain family members have their blood pressure checked regularly.
10. Live a normal life in every other way!
Be happy and manage your stress.
Normal Blood Pressure should be 120/80 mmHg or lower.
Hypertension is when your blood pressure is more than 140/90 mmHg.
Source: Netwellness, Consumer Health Information
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