{"id":38196,"date":"2025-10-31T20:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=38196"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:47:19","slug":"briefly-changing-my-eating-habits-fixed-my-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=38196","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Changing my eating habits fixed my high blood pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blood-pressure-11677.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38197\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blood-pressure-11677.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blood-pressure-11677.jpg 928w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blood-pressure-11677-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blood-pressure-11677-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blood-pressure-11677-768x771.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have problems with high blood pressure, I\u2019d like to encourage you to consider making serious changes to your diet. There might be some people who don\u2019t have any choice but to start taking prescription medications for high blood pressure, but I\u2019d like to tell you that I have completely eliminated my issue by eliminating all sugar and almost all carbohydrates. (A couple of months ago, my blood pressure hit 185\/144, which was dangerously high \u2014 considered stage 3 hypertension.) By completely changing my eating habits, I\u2019m down 22 pounds and my blood pressure is now in the \u201cideal\u201d range \u2014 without taking any medication. In addition, I sleep better and I have more energy. Getting away from the sugar-laden mess that we generally refer to as \u201chighly processed food\u201d has been a life-changer for me. Now my challenge is to avoid slipping back into old habits \u2014 by eating in the dangerous ways that almost everyone in our society has come to see as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have problems with high blood pressure, I\u2019d like to encourage you to consider making serious changes to your diet. There might be some people who don\u2019t have any choice but to start taking prescription medications for high blood pressure, but I\u2019d like to tell you that I have completely eliminated my issue by <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=38196\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-9W4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38199,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38196\/revisions\/38199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}