This article is very helpful as this person is living a life after a bout with high blood pressure and the causes of their high blood pressure.
Our health matters are to be taken seriously. Read and appreciate an-other’s story:

Natural Ways to Lower Blood Pressure

Switch to Monounsaturated Oils. Not only are these oils better on the waist but they also lower cholesterol and high blood pressure. Use products like olive oil or canola oil for cooking for the entire family. …

Diet plays a huge part in having high blood pressure and also hypertension. We eat out lots more at restaurants and fast-food chain places and they do not watch how much salt they put on our foods, the sugars we know nothing about, the oils they cook with and how often they change the oils they fry the foods in. Everyone of these tips for health become a serious health threat to our bodies causing the artieries to harden, clog-up with saturated fats of all kinds and once the blood flow is challenged in any way, we start to see serious side effects of high blood pressure.

There are ways to improve our health also through prayer, mediation, spiritual moments of quiet of which we seem to be in such a hurry to do this, to go there and for those in the cities the commute to work is quite stressful adding to our days pressures.

This article has some neat thoughts to consider:
Can anyone give me an example of a spiritual practice that may …

fasting, not just all foods, but only eating fruits and veggies and fish or something like that(even though you are eating there is purpose in the fast) spiritual beliefs guide the way we live, spiritual beliefs give us morals and ethics, … When you are in a restful state, you are more mentally alert, calmer..that is going to work on your blood pressure right there alone. I can’t get into this to much… because hubby wants the check book….that raises his blood pressure …