DASH Diet: The High Blood Pressure Diet
Background
The DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) was created to assist in lowering blood pressure and high cholesterol. It can also prevent high blood pressure where people are susceptible to the condition. One of the primary aims is to reduce sodium (salt) intake. The diet offers two levels of sodium intake – 2400mg down to 1500mg.
The DASH diet has now been reformulated in an easier to follow format by author, Marla Heller, who has been working with the diet as a dietitian for over 10 years. In her book, she outlines the high blood pressure diet in the easiest way to follow allowing for the most successful results.
Dash Diet Basics
While the basic Dash eating plan is 2000 calories, it does allow for calorie consumption levels of between 1,600 calories and 3,100 calories per day. This is allowed for by varying number of servings. It is a balanced high-fiber plan, with medium levels of proteins, and higher levels of whole carbohydrates. The DASH diet is designed to lower blood pressure and cholesterol without the use of medication.
This blood pressure lowering diet contains the following components:
- DASH healthy recipes and grocery lists
- Easy to use tools that allow the DASH Diet Action Plan to be personalized for guaranteed success
- 28 days of meal ideas at varied calorie levels
- Eating out tips.
- Exercise and diet advice for no matter what a person’s lifestyle.
The diet is high in the essential nutrients, calcium, magnesium, and potassium.
Recommended foods
Fruits, vegetables, fish, beans, whole grains, lean poultry, nuts, low fat and fat free dairy, olive oil
Sample Blood Pressure Lowering Meal Plan
| Breakfast Orange Juice |
| Lunch Turkey and light Swiss cheese sandwich with romaine lettuce and cranberry sauce |
| Snack Nectarine |
| Dinner Italian Bread w/olive oil |
Exercise Recommendations
Exercise is an important part of the DASH diet since exercise can lower blood pressure, strengthen the heart, and improve circulation.
Program Expenses
The DASH Diet Action Plan: Proven to Lower Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Without Medication retails for $22.99.
Click here to purchase the book for a discounted price.
Conclusions
This is a highly effective and recommended program for anyone suffering with high blood pressure and/or high cholesterol. The US NHLBI (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) sponsored a serious of clinical trials, and determined that the DASH diet was successful in bringing down high blood pressure. In fact, results would happen within as little as 2 weeks. The author has many years of experience dealing with hypertension and dieters will be benefited by her expertise.
See Also
The original DASH Diet can be downloaded here.
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I think this diet plan will allay fear of high bp complications. it’s indeed a life diet!
Mostly good results are reported with this DASH-Diet worldwide, which is a very good and highly recommendable initial approach !
But isn’t it astonishing:
Nobody dares looking at the obvious causes of Obesity:
Glucose(Corn-/Cane-derived)relates to Juvenile Obesity
Melasse in all forms (Con/Cane-derived) does same,
All Chicks & Hens are ‘energy-rich’ Corn-fed, so their eggs can be shown as Corn-trailed too.
CAFO-Chicks suffer from Fatty-Liver-Conditions (like
many of their overeating Consumers) and up to 30%
don’t survive the 4-5 months to slaughter.
Most pigs are fattened with Corn-based Concentrates,
can have Coronary conditions at their “juvenile”
age when slaughtered after 7-10 months of CAFO-
Feeding.
All Diary-CAFO-produced Milk,Cheese & Butter-Products are proven to have the high Corn-Trails (13C-MSM +++)
and the Cows to be sold as beef after 5-7 Years
forced Milk-Production show high 13C-trails too,
(which is not the case if grass- and hay-fed)
The Pets fed on the Offal or regular meat show up with “Diseases of Unknown Origin” like feline and canine Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, divers Cancers etc.
The Intra-abdominal Fat of Patients with Metabolic Obesity is known as marked by 13C and be prominently different from subcutaneous fatty tissue as can be seen on MNR-transverse Photos of Obese & Diabetes-mell./Metabolic Patients).
The Scientific experiments use animals fattened (by corn-based chow with heavy, wax like corn-fed animal- fats) to develop pills to prevent the Fattening Reaction, Carcinoma and Neurodegenerative Diseases on the Human Consumers of “Normal Human energy-rich Food”!
The Story of a genetically predestined Diabetes or Hypertensive or Alzheimer-Reaction may be seen as falsified and may be proven to be a “Natural Reaction of Vertebrates” to the “Normal Modern Human Food” by the global epidemic-like progression of the Metabolic Syndrome, endangering all NH-Systems.
And this may be underscored by the strict Observation of a slightly altered DASH-Diet.
Corn-based food may be allowed as”EMERGENCY FOOD ONLY”
and should be declared on Label as such by WHO & FDA if the Global Public Health as Basis of any Wealth-System is to be envisioned.
There is more at stake than Monzanto’s BT Corn- and the trans-gene Bigger Sugar-beet-Production and these Firms know very well “what’s in the Pudding”. That’s
why they rush to get most developing Nations dependant on their “new and better” Products, mostly as yet untested however for longterm Health-Effects.
But As Yet Nobody appears to want to hear what was said already in the 197o-es: AVOID CORN (and their Genes)in FOOD and FODDER and choose for a Happy and Healthy Life rather the Natural & Organic Products.
When will the Researchers see the Evidence of Hope Jahren and Colleagues as already published by the PNAS in 2009 and 2010 ?
(expl.:MSM = Mass-spectrometric Investigation
13C: Heavy stable Carbon-Isotopes which are slightly (but significantly) enriched in draught-resistant Plants’products (together with other heavy organic isotopes) and need more Photon-Energy to be used, so their products carry slightly more energy and need more energy to be used for burning (compare to ignite wax / petroleum light).
That’s why the Basic Energy-Homoestasis is disturbed
at all levels.
Dr.K.J.Seelig
(cont.) If pills will be used instead of organic items, is it possible that there are higher chances of higher price for consumer food items because of new developments in feedings, requirements and its sustainability?
@Seelig,MD. So, what will be the best alternative feeds for the mentioned animals for derived by-products, if the researchers blaming corn as cause of obesity?What would be the pills’ ingredients as recommendation instead of corn? & How will people live a happy and healthy life if not for natural and organic products?
Does anybody know how to follow the DASH diet without loosing weight??? I am already skinny, and now that I’ve started the DASH diet am loosing weight that I can’t afford to loose!
Increase your protein requirement at 1.2g/kg body weight.
I need a low sodium diet for mieneres disease gonna try to follow this diet
I have been on this diet for 4 days and I see
alot of improvement. I have more energy and
I feel better and my blood pressure is declining
I am determine to continue along with drinking
a lot of water. Please I’d like to receive further reccommendation. I usually walk with my son and
my puddle three laps around the lake in our
Southern Maryland community.
Thanks
Sincerely,
Delores Onianwah
I’ve been on this diet for two years now. There’s plenty of food and variety, and best of all, it has kept my blood pressure at a point that doesn’t require medication, so it’s achieving the aim my doctor and I had in my following it.
Great thing!