Dash Diet For Beginners - Lower Your Blood Pressure For Healthy Weight Loss

By Keith Alexander

Blood pressure, the risk of heart diseases, diabetes, stroke, and weight loss are arguably some of the most discussed issues in the society today. The contribution of diet to all these problems is evident in as much as exercise and other interventions are commonly cited. You are what you eat and your body responds to the nutrients that you take in to your system.

DASH diet is an excellent choice for people who want to lose weight or eat healthy as a measure to safeguard their bodies against infections. DASH diets open up lots of possibilities without hard-to-follow rules, gimmicks or any unreasonable restrictions. As opposed to other diet plans which impose stringent measures and get you stuck in diet doldrums, DASH diet makes you full of energy and enhances your satisfaction.

DASH diet is nutritionally sound, endorsed and approved by the health community and based on extensive scientific experiments. It was chosen by the US News and World Report as a number one diet in the Best Diets for Healthy Eating, Best Diets Overall and Best Diabetes Diets categories. It is not a crash or fad diet but rather a medically developed plan that helps in improving your overall health.

The most interesting thing with DASH diet and certainly the reason behind its popularity is the manner in which it addresses health issues as a matter of priority. Scientific research including laboratory experiments has shown that this diet has a significant impact on cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and kidney functions.  Being an excellent weight loss plan, DASH diet has been found to have a beneficial impact on metabolic syndrome, type II diabetes, heart diseases as well as other obesity-related complications.

This book contains everything you need to know to succeed in planning and executing your DASH diet plans. In it, you will find recipes, meal plans and a fitness program. Every plan included can be customized to meet your unique individual requirements.

• Language: English
• Publisher: dsk-enterprise
• Release date: Jan 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393716891

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Table of Contents

1: Understanding the DASH Diet

2: A Comprehensive Overview of the DASH Diet Plan

3: How the DASH Diet Affects Your Health

4: How Appropriate is the DASH Diet for You

5: How to Plan Your DASH Diet

6: Incorporating the DASH Diet into Your Lifestyle

7: DASH Diet Shopping and Food Guide

8: The DASH Diet 14-Day Menu Planner

9: DASH to Fitness Workout Plan

10: The DASH Diet Cookbook Recipes

Introduction

Blood pressure, the risk of heart diseases, diabetes, stroke, and weight loss are arguably some of the most discussed issues in the society today. The contribution of diet to all these problems is evident in as much as exercise and other interventions are commonly cited. You are what you eat and your body responds to the nutrients that you take in to your system.

DASH diet is an excellent choice for people who want to lose weight or eat healthy as a measure to safeguard their bodies against infections. DASH diets open up lots of possibilities without hard-to-follow rules, gimmicks or any unreasonable restrictions. As opposed to other diet plans which impose stringent measures and get you stuck in diet doldrums, DASH diet makes you full of energy and enhances your satisfaction.

DASH diet is nutritionally sound, endorsed and approved by the health community and based on extensive scientific experiments. It was chosen by the US News and World Report as a number one diet in the Best Diets for Healthy Eating, Best Diets Overall and Best Diabetes Diets categories. It is not a crash or fad diet but rather a medically developed plan that helps in improving your overall health.

The most interesting thing with DASH diet and certainly the reason behind its popularity is the manner in which it addresses health issues as a matter of priority. Scientific research including laboratory experiments has shown that this diet has a significant impact on cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and kidney functions.  Being an excellent weight loss plan, DASH diet has been found to have a beneficial impact on metabolic syndrome, type II diabetes, heart diseases as well as other obesity-related complications.

This book contains everything you need to know to succeed in planning and executing your DASH diet plans. In it, you will find recipes, meal plans and a fitness program. Every plan included can be customized to meet your unique individual requirements.

1: Understanding the DASH Diet

As early as the 1970s, the problem of high blood pressure in the United States had already become rampant. This forced the National Institutes of Health in 1992 to provide funds for research activities aimed at finding a lasting dietary solution to hypertension. The ultimate goal was to come up with dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH).

The research was conducted by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute through the assistance of five medical research institutions in the United States. These institutions included Duke University Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Pennington Biomedical Research Center and Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research.

Working in collaboration with one another, these facilities undertook what is considered to be one of the most extensive and exhaustive researches to this day as far as nutrition solutions for hypertension are concerned.

Through randomized control trials, the teams of nutritionists, nurses, doctors, and statisticians worked tirelessly between their institutions. Each of the five facilities picked its own group of participants so as to ensure the findings were not biased. According to the research documentation, more than 8,000 people deliberately went through the screening process under the guidance of the researchers. According to the research requirements, two thirds of the sports were supposed to be filled