Lowering blood pressure?

"Fer" wrote in message news:VLn4c.36813$Up2.21778@pd7tw1no...
hierophant wrote:

|| Foods should be salted to taste, not restricted. Excessive salty
|| foods (processed, canned, boxed, drive-thru) can be limited to one a
|| day to make sure there isn't sodium overload.

While I always salt while cooking and not beyond all the mentions of salty
foods has got me thinking. While I normally avoid any fast food due to
company I have been indulging a little. That is easy to remove from my
life, now I'll have to work on the stress factors!

You need more salt during pregnancy, to supply the amniotic fluid and
the expanded blood volume. Restriction of salt intake has not been
shown to be of any use in lowering bp during pregnancy in broad
randomized studies -- the recommendation is "salt to taste". (In
addition to all the new books, I even have several layman pregnancy
books published back in 1979 and 1982 which make that recommendation
and refer to studies showing that salt restriction is of no use in
lowering high bp during pregnancy.)

High bp in pregnancy is a completely different disease from chronic
hypertension and is *not* caused by the same sorts of factors.

Fast food, though, isn't terribly good for you during pregnancy for a
boatload of other reasons and if you can avoid it, you might as well.
:-)

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C, mama to fifteen month old nursling

(Dragon) wrote in message . com...
"Fer" wrote in message news:1ue4c.782904$X%5.759867@pd7tw2no...
I had my MW appointment today. Overall it went well, fundal is 27 wks,
weight gain fine, baby HR 140s but it seems that my BP is creeping up
130/80 today and she took it three times to make sure since that is
*unusually* high for me. I've dealt with low BP all my life and it has
never gone up this high that I can ever remember. And no, no protein in my
urine, no headaches, no sudden swelling etc.

In the 1997 edition of "The Pregnancy Book" by William Sears it
states:

"New studies show that pregnant women who take 1500 to 2000 milligrams
of daily calcium supplements can reduce their chances of developing
high blood pressure and preeclampsia by 60 to 70 percent."

Newer research with a bigger study population failed to confirm this
finding, so the jury is still out.

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C, mama to fifteen month old nursling