• Aim for a healthy weight range for your height and body type. Your health care practitioner can help you calculate a healthy target weight.
• Even a small amount of weight loss can make a major difference in lowering or preventing high blood pressure.
• You must burn more calories than you take in to lose weight.
• Crash or fad diets are not helpful and may be dangerous.
• Some weight loss medications also carry major risks and may even elevate blood pressure, and great caution is advised in using these drugs. Please ask your health care practitioner or pharmacist for help in deciding if a weight loss medication is appropriate for your situation.