19. e (more fat-free sweets). In well-designed studies, blood pressure fell when people ate more fruits and vegetables (about 10 servings a day), ate more low-fat dairy (2 servings a day), replaced saturated fat (fatty meat, cheese, butter, etc.) with monounsaturated fat (olive or canola oil, etc.), cut salt (to 2,300 mg a day), and had no more than a couple of Peppermint Patties, gingersnaps, or other sweets a few times a week.