Recently, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, based in the United States, has taken considerable steps to promote the DASH Diet, which is an acronym for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension.
The diet encourages people to eat large quantities of fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, nuts, beans and fish and meats, which are all low in fat and salt content. The diet also focuses on portion-size, nutrient-levels and the sorts of foodstuffs the body requires to intake the optimum levels of them. The architects of this dietary-approach assert that the diet can reduce blood-pressure and instil a well-balanced approach to eating, as a result of the low-sodium levels and high-magnesium, calcium and potassium levels instrumental to the approach. According to many experts, this type of diet can also offer resistance to the onset of stroke, heart-disease and diabetes.
In order to understand what the diet can achieve, researchers from the National Institute of Health observed three different diet-plans and contrasted the benefits of each: the DASH diet, a fruit and vegetable diet and an approach known as – the control diet.
The results confirmed that DASH provides the greatest benefits to health and wellbeing as it contains the highest levels of positive-nutritional-values and can help patients that experience chronic medical conditions such as pre-hypertension and hypertension. The diet can facilitate changes in blood-pressure, without any changes in body-weight, and has been received positively by the National Institute of Health due to their increasing concerns relating to high-blood pressure and its prevalence within the United States; with health authorities asserting that high-blood pressure presently affects at-least half of the population.
In January 2013, the U.S News and World Report described the DASH diet as the best overall approach to dieting, praising its positive impact upon a range of ailments and factors such as heart-disease, diabetes and nutritional-effectiveness.
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