Dash diet

It is estimated, that on hypertension suffers about 25 per cent of human’s population. It is very popular civilization disease. Untreated hypertension may lead to heart’s attacks, strokes, renal-failure, injuries eyesight, causes bad mood and other health difficulties like head aches, dizziness or faints. The beginnings could not seem dangerous, but the faster the illness is examined, the better for the patient. Often in order to reduce hypertension doctors prescribe lots of medicaments, which – as we all well know – are not the cheapest ones. But there is a way to make our health condition better, without extra expenses. How? The easiest way is to go on a diet. But not on a usual one – there is a special diet called DASH diet (Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension), which was developed by American scientists.

The physicians took the experiment twice – at first, they compared blood pressure of people who eat mostly processed food (‘junk food’), those who ate usual American food with an addition of vegetables and fruits, and third group, which feed according to the dash diet plan. Of course, the latter group had the best results. Later the scientist proved that people who eat less salt have lower blood pressure. Their research showed, that people who eat more vegetables, less fat and sodium (which is the main factor providing to hypertension) and often do physical exercises have lower tension that the others. The DASH diet is recommended by The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (one of the National Institutes of Health, of the US Department of Health and Human Services).

The main issue is to eat specific servings of groups of food, for example only seven to eight small servings of cereal or bread (both of those are carbohydrates) according to the dash diet food pyramid. For many people it could be hard to deal with it, but the advantage is that many people lose their weight complying with this dash diet plan. Also the dash diet recipes are not as difficult as some may think – you do not have to be a professional cook to do them. Most of the dishes should be grilled, baked or fried without fat or using low-fat ingredients – just to avoid necessary calories (obesity conduces the develop of hypertension). For more information click to our special dash diet recipes. Some of the food products are better than the other ones, some of them are specially recommended in dash diet, like dairy low-fat products or poultry. If you want to know what exactly can you eat and how often – search for information in the dash diet menu. And if you still do not know how to combine your meals and how the servings should look like – peep at the dash diet meal plans. There you find a one week menu built according to dash diet.

To learn more about hypertension just visit the dash diet for hypertension. You will get there all of the important facts about blood pressure – when does the hypertension begin, what exactly means ‘high blood pressure’ and what could raise it even more. To cure hypertension, you should take up more sports or simple physical exercises, but remember not to exhaust yourself. Smoking and drinking are also forbidden. Those tips and even more you can find in the dash diet for hypertension article. If you are still feeling curiosity, for more details how to change your lifestyle and improve yours health and psychical condition see dash diet guidelines>.

21.06.2010. 09:32