Dash Diet - Here's Something Better!

http://www.shed30in30detox.com/ DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet eating plan is one of the non-pharmacologic therapy in high blood pressure management. It is a part of lifestyle modifications including: low in saturated fat intake, increase fruits and vegetables intake, more substituted carbohydrate-containing food such as whole grain products, increase intake of fish, poultry as well as nuts. Study showed that DASH diet eating plan has the greatest effect on reduction of blood pressure and cholesterol compare to normal diet. Result can be seen within 2 weeks! To begin with, the DASH plan places a lot of importance on grains. With 7-8 servings daily as the daily allowance on this plan, it is good to incorporate whole wheat breads, wheat pastas, and whole grain cereals. Your whole grains have many more nutritional values than other ones which carry more refined sugars. Although it was originally conceived and aimed to control and lower blood pressure rather than for purposes of losing weight, with a few adjustments, it can easily be tailored to regulate weight as well. In fact, it is well known that being overweight can lead to hypertension, hence lowering one's weight can lower his or her blood pressure and maybe vice versa.

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