V. Premala Priyadharsini ¹, K. Sarojini ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Food Service Management and Dietetics, Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore - 641 043, IN

Abstract

Change in life style, food import, fast foods and rising consumption of sugar and animal fat account for rising global rates of hypertension and its associated disorders. In India the prevalence of hypertensive is around fifty one percent among adults as per 1991 census and there are about twenty two million people with hypertension.

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