The fastest and easiest ways to lower your blood pressure is to alter your eating habits. Most of us is seen in what we eat. Those days of three square home-cooked meals every day have gone and have been replaced by to a large extend by convenience foods and fast food which has caused a variety of different problems including the increasing problems of both obesity and high blood pressure. There are two major problems with many fast and convenience foods and these are salt and fat, both of which have been clearly shown to increase your blood pressure.