Apart from lowering dietary sodium intake, dietary changes that may help decrease high blood pressure include
a. decreasing intake of dairy products.
b. increasing intake of vegetable protein.
c. increasing intake of calcium and magne-sium.
d. replacing saturated fats with polyunsatu-rated fats.
C
Dietary changes that may help decrease high blood pressure include increasing intake of calcium and magnesium. This could be accomplished by increasing, rather than decreasing, intake of dairy products. Intake of vegetable versus animal protein and replacing saturated fats with po-lyunsaturated fats do not decrease blood pressure, although these changes may have other health benefits.
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