Food Preferences and Quantitative Aspects of Fruits, Vegetables and Pulse Consumption among Essential Hypertensive Subjects
Asian Resonance (P: ISSN No. 0976-8602 RNI No.UPENG/2012/42622 VOL.-7, ISSUE-2, (Supplementary Issue)- April-2018 E: ISSN No. 2349-9443 ) Abstract Nutan Assistant Professor, Deptt.of Food and Nutrition, Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishvavidyalaya, Khanpur Kalan, Haryana, India Hypertension is a silent killer and precursor of all the metabolic disturbances .Although, people are getting aware about their health in developing countries like India .strict adherence to a heathy dietary approach is scarce even among diagnosed hypertensives. For the purpose of study 60 hypertensive male and female were selected from naturopathy center namely Prakritik Jeevan Kendra, Pattikalyana, G.T. Road, Panipat and Navneet Prabhakar Yog Chikitsa Dham, Bassi, Jaipur, Rajasthan. Dietary information was collected through a questionnaire cum interview method. Blood pressure measured at the time of joining Naturopathy Center. Most of the subjects were vegetarian (68.31%) and having salty ta...