Shopping List for Lowering Blood Pressure

“We have many people with hypertension who come to Pritikin,” says Pritikin’s Medical Director Danine Fruge, MD, “and within three days, many have blood pressures that have dropped so low that we need to reduce their medications or take them off their pills altogether. Yes, just three days. That’s how quickly and powerfully our bodies respond to healthy food, exercise, and other lifestyle changes.”

Written by Kell Wynn

3.4 min read

The 50 foods on this Shopping List for Lowering Blood Pressure are great not only for blood pressure but also for shedding excess weight, lowering cholesterol, and more.

Lower Blood Pressure, Shed Fat

Our Shopping List for Lowering Blood Pressure is based on the Pritikin Eating Plan, regarded worldwide as among the healthiest diets on earth. The Pritikin Program of Diet and Exercise has been documented in more than 100 studies in peer-reviewed medical journals to prevent and control many of our nation’s leading killers – heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, metabolic syndrome, and obesity, as well as hypertension.

Scientifically Documented Results

In research conducted by scientists at UCLA on more than 1,100 people with high blood pressure who were at the Pritikin Longevity Center for three weeks, the following results were achieved:

Systolic blood pressure fell on average 9%.
Diastolic blood pressure fell 9%.
Of those taking pills for hypertension, 55% left Pritikin no longer needing these pills, and the majority of the others had their dosages reduced.

While the published research focuses on results after three-week stays, the physicians at the Pritikin Longevity Center point out that for many people, blood pressure starts decreasing much sooner – almost immediately, in fact.