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