High blood pressure got you worried? Try Dash Diet!

Are you dealing with hypertension? Are you someone who finds it difficult to keep their blood pressure under control? Then Dash Diet might come to your rescue.

Dash diet or Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension is a dietary plan that offers a non-pharmaceutical strategy to help manage high blood pressure and also reduces the risk of hypertension. An article highlighting this dietary pattern was published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1997.

The diet food plan works towards limiting the consumption of fats, red meats, sweets, added sugars and sugary drinks. The diet also aims at limiting the consumption of sodium or salt.

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The consumption of foods that are rich in nutrients like potassium and magnesium is recommended. As highlighted by experts in the article published in 1997, “A Clinical Trial of the Effects of Dietary Patterns on Blood Pressure”, “a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy foods and with reduced saturated total fat can substantially lower blood pressure.”

Following the Dash diet will help lower blood pressure, reduce the risk of type-2 diabetes and sometimes also result in weight loss. It will be even more effective if you combine this diet with some form of physical movement or exercise.

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