One day, I was talking about food therapy with a foreign friend who had suffered from high blood pressure for many years. Friend: Doctor, I heard that in China there are therapies of food therapy. Answer: Yes. Friend: Food therapy is food therapy? Diet therapy? Answer: Yes Friend: I eat every day. I eat every day. Can eating get rid of diseases? It seems like I don’t know much about it. Answer: Yes. Friend: I have a high blood pressure disease, can I get rid of it by eating? Answer: Yes. Friend: In that case, I can stop taking medication to control blood pressure? You can control high blood pressure with diet? Answer: Yes. But it cannot completely replace the medication. Because although your blood pressure is up to the standard, it will rise again without medication. Friend: Since I have to take antihypertensive medication, can you tell me how much of a role does diet play in my blood pressure? Answer: Diet does play a role in your blood pressure, but it is limited. Because, after all, diet is not nearly as effective in controlling your blood pressure as the antihypertensive drugs you take. FRIENDLY: So, diet has a very small effect, right? So small that it is negligible? Answer: I can’t say it’s small, it’s negligible. Friend: Then, can you tell me how much dietary therapy can really do? Answer: The effect of diet therapy is not immediate, as in the case of antihypertensive drugs, but in the development of a good habit, and this good diet will have a positive impact on blood pressure. Friend: When you say that, I still don’t understand. Can you tell me more about what exactly diet therapy can do for me, for me? Answer: The effect of diet therapy, for you, is slow, continuous and not easily visible. For example, you weigh 90 kilograms, 1.75 meters tall, which is obviously overweight, heavy body, obese, like a vehicle, your heart is like an engine, to make your car run, the engine will take a lot of effort, consume more gasoline, the oil circuit in the process of gasoline consumption, it is easy to aging, easy to block, over time, the oil pipeline to harden, the pipeline hardened, at this point, the oil pipeline is not easy to see. Pipeline hardened, at this time, the oil pipeline is like a blood vessel, blood pressure will also rise. Friend: In other words, you want me to eat less and lose weight, which is good for blood pressure, right? Is that what dietary therapy is for? Answer: Yes. But not exactly. AU: And what other aspects are there? Answer: Other aspects, such as hawthorn, properly consumed, can soften blood vessels and play an indirect role in lowering blood pressure; mushroom food, which has a positive effect on lowering blood lipids, maintaining the elasticity of blood vessels and preventing hardening of blood vessels, etc. Friend: Oh, I think I understand better, that means I can’t eat a lot of food in China, right? Answer: That’s not true either. Whether it’s food or general food, everything should be in moderation. Friend: OK!