Lifestyle and Diet
Your diet and lifestyle can have an effect on your blood pressure.
If you do have high blood pressure then following a healthy balanced diet, increasing your activity levels and reducing your weight, if you are overweight, are all ways which will help lower your blood pressure.
Click on the sections on the left for helpful tips and advice on:
How often you should exercise in order to remain healthy
How to reduce your dietary salt intake
How to read food labels for salt content
How to achieve a healthy balanced diet
How to find out if you are the ideal weight for you height by using the BMI calculator
What a unit of alcohol is and how much should you drink a week