Living With High Blood Pressure
- 0About this program
- 1Understanding blood pressure
- 2Understanding your diagnosis
- 3Blood pressure medication
- 4What causes high blood pressure?
- 5Just a pinch of salt
- 6Non-alcoholic drinks and your blood pressure
- 7Reducing alcohol and your blood pressure
- 8Being more physically active
- 9Weight loss and high blood pressure
- 10Eating well to lower your blood pressure
- 11Keeping up healthy changes
- 12Changes for life
- 13Being there for you in the long term
- 0About this program
- 1Understanding blood pressure
- 2Understanding your diagnosis
- 3Blood pressure medication
- 4What causes high blood pressure?
- 5Just a pinch of salt
- 6Non-alcoholic drinks and your blood pressure
- 7Reducing alcohol and your blood pressure
- 8Being more physically active
- 9Weight loss and high blood pressure
- 10Eating well to lower your blood pressure
- 11Keeping up healthy changes
- 12Changes for life
- 13Being there for you in the long term
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Never delay seeking advice or dialling emergency services because of something that you have read on HealthUnlocked.
Being there for you in the long term
How to measure your blood pressure at home
3 ways to boost your willpower
Making healthy changes takes willpower. But you can’t rely on willpower forever – it will fade over time. You need to make healthy choices into habits, so you don’t even know you’re making them.
Develop a routine. It makes it easier to build healthy habits into your day and planning ahead means you won’t find yourself ordering unhealthy takeaways.
Build up slowly. Trying to change everything in your life in one week is too much. Focus on small changes and keep building on your successes.
Get support. Tell your friends and family about the changes you want to make and why. Share your healthy changes with them, like going for a walk or cooking a nutritious meal.
The BHF recipe finder
A balanced diet is key to keeping your blood pressure at a healthy level. No matter what you’re looking for the BHF recipe finder can help you filter through our huge recipe collection so you can find hearty, healthy meals you’ll love.
Join the BHF Heart Matters community for free
Heart Matters magazine is the British Heart Foundation’s award-winning FREE magazine for anyone with a heart or circulatory condition or at risk of getting one. It includes the latest research, healthy recipes and nutrition tips, and shares the journeys of other patients. Blood pressure is a real risk factor for heart and circulatory disease, so our resources feature lots of ways to manage your condition and live a longer, healthier life.
Check out the online magazine to get a taste of what will come through your letter box every month.
Call our Heart Helpline
Our Heart Helpline has Cardiac Nurses available to answer your questions.
Call us on 0300 330 3311 or email
Content on HealthUnlocked does not replace the relationship between you and doctors or other healthcare professionals nor the advice you receive from them.
Never delay seeking advice or dialling emergency services because of something that you have read on HealthUnlocked.