How Come Our List of Vegetables
Is So Important?

With a proper list of vegetables, you are well set to lower blood pressure naturally. I'll give you some specifics.

When most people talk about foods that lower blood pressure, they think of vegetables first of all.

But, what if we hate vegetables?

Well fortunately, we don't have to eat a lot of them as long as we eat some off our list of vegetables.

When I was a boy, my mother and father insisted that I "clean" my plate at dinner time. The inducement was dessert.

But if I hated the asparagus enough, that didn't work, and my mother would try an appeal to my humanity: "Think of the poor starving children in India," she would say.

I remember saying once that we should package up the green beans and send them over there, whereupon my father belted me. He favored force and didn't like wise guys.

Somewhere along the line I figured out that I wasn't going to win this game so in desperation I came up with a plan: I would eat the hated vegetables first and fast.

Then I would wash the bad taste down with a glass of milk and enjoy the rest of my dinner in peace.

That worked and to this day my first bite will be vegetables. Pleasure memories do not die out.

I recommend my solution to you - if you don't like vegetables, eat them first and fast. Have over with it, then go on with the fun foods.

For your high blood pressure diet or simply to maintain a normal blood pressure, choose from the following: avocado, beets, broccoli, carrots, celery, chard, chilies, garlic, green beans, kale, other leafy greens, okra, onions, parsley, peas, sweet and white potatoes, pumpkin, spinach, winter squash, tomatoes, turnip greens and zucchini.

Eating vegetables raw is best, so salads work fine. Steamed is next best. Boiled and baked are okay. Fried (except for stir fry) is worst.

Research has come up with the vegetables we mentioned above because they contain beneficial minerals, but you can choose other vegetables, too. Almost any are fine unless you follow the Blood Type Diet.

Your list of vegetables could include tofu. It is a processed vegetable, but a complete protein, which comes from soy beans.

Unfortunately, fresh soy beans contain some toxins, so should not be eaten except perhaps in very small amounts rarely. Soy beans are made into many products that can be consumed as the toxins are mostly destroyed in the processing.

I will post a separate page on soy bean products later on, so be sure to check back for that.

In the meantime, eat some veggies from your list of vegetables. If you don't like them, eat them first and fast. If you do like them, enjoy.

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