Q. I’m a 48-year-old male not taking any medicines, just daily vitamins. At the start of this year, my blood pressure was about 135 over 86. It had been hovering around that level for months.
I recently lost nearly 50 pounds (down from 261) and my blood pressure has dropped to 118 over 78. If you weigh more than you should, then it is possible to control your blood pressure by losing weight, eating right, and exercising.
A. What a great success story! Congratulations on your weight loss. We agree that losing excess pounds is a great way to control blood pressure. There is much more information on nondrug approaches for controlling hypertension in our Guide to Blood Pressure Treatment.
