Sweets raise blood pressure: High blood pressure patients should avoid this sweet
Created: 06/10/2022, 13:12
By: Juliane Gutmann
Eldorado for those with a sweet tooth: But one candy in particular is not suitable for people with elevated blood pressure.
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Regulated lifestyle and balanced diet: Often this mixture already helps to lower high blood pressure.
Candy should also be avoided.
According to the current general definition, anyone who permanently measures a blood pressure of 140/90 mmHg or more has high blood pressure.
This is considered a precursor to various heart diseases.
High blood pressure values encourage heart attacks and strokes, which are among the most common causes of death in Germany.
ACE inhibitors, beta blockers to diuretics: there are a number of medications that are used to treat high blood pressure.
However, doctors recommend that you always try to lower your blood pressure naturally as a first step*.
In many cases, even slight changes in lifestyle help to get blood pressure under control without medication.
Stress should be avoided as much as possible or sufficient balance should be provided, for example in the form of yoga relaxation breaks.
Diet also plays an important role.
Sugar, salt, saturated fatty acids (e.g. in butter and meat) should not be consumed too often
when blood pressure reaches critical levels.
And a certain candy is also considered a true blood pressure driver.
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Licorice has a blood pressure-increasing effect
Anyone who consumes liquorice in large quantities risks dangerous physical reactions.
The medical journal warns of the blood pressure-increasing effect of liquorice root extracts contained in liquorice.
Danish scientists therefore recommend that high blood pressure patients avoid liquorice
, it says in the medical journal.
Small amounts of liquorice are not harmful, but according to the trade journal, health problems must be expected from a daily consumption of 50 grams of strong liquorice.
Excessive licorice consumption can even trigger liquorice poisoning, which can even lead to cardiac arrest.
One such case was reported by US media in September 2020.
According to the doctors treating him, a construction worker died of a liquorice overdose.
A resulting potassium deficiency had resulted in a cardiac arrest.
According to Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment and the Scientific Committee on Food of the European Commission recommend eating no more than 100 milligrams of glycyrrhizin per day.
This substance is contained in liquorice and therefore also in liquorice.
For the consumer, this means that he should eat the equivalent of less than 50 grams of strong liquorice (liquorice products with a glycyrrhine content of more than 0.2 g/100 grams must be labeled as 'strong liquorice') or less than 100 grams of children's liquorice (not subject to labelling) per day .
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