How can one prevent High Blood Pressure or Hypertension?

To prevent high blood pressure, you should:

• Get regular aerobic exercise

• Limit your intake of salt and alcoholic beverages

• Eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low in saturated fats

• Avoid smoking

• Maintain a desirable body weight

It is important to try to modify all the risk factors for coronary artery disease that are under your control. In addition to the above actions, you should:

• Quit smoking

• Reduce your high LDL cholesterol (the "bad" cholesterol)

There is the real possibility that you can cure your high blood pressure just with lifestyle changes, and won't require blood pressure medicines.