What is The DASH Diet?
DASH diet is a diet that is designed for a lifetime of healthy eating. This diet is also designed to help treat or prevent high blood pressure (hypertension). DASH diet, prompting us to reduce sodium in the food we eat and eat foods that contain nutrients that may help lower blood pressure, such as potassium, calcium, and magnesium.Through the DASH diet, you can reduce your blood pressure a few points in just two weeks. Not only lower your blood pressure, the DASH diet is also very healthy. DASH diet is believed to prevent osteoporosis, cancer, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
How DASH diet can help me stay healthy?
Too many to include sodium (salt) in your diet can contribute to high blood pressure (hypertension). Most of the salt contained in foods naturally, and partly added during processing or preparing the food. By following the DASH diet can help you to lower high blood pressure by reducing the amount of sodium in your diet to less than 2,300 mg per day.Fruits, vegetables, and whole grains recommended in the DASH diet provides a variety of other elements of a healthy diet, for example, lucopene, beta-carotene and isoflavones. Element-This element can help protect your body against various diseases, such as cancer, osteoporosis, stroke and diabetes. By following the DASH diet, can help reduce the risk of heart disease is by lowering levels of low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL, or bad cholesterol).
By undergoing the DASH diet, then within 2 weeks your blood pressure might drop a few points. However, you should not pause for the treatment of high blood pressure, or other treatment, wihtout first consulting with your doctor
What should we consume while undergoing the DASH Diet?
As you go about the DASH diet, you should consume whole grains fruits, vegetables, and dairy products are low in fat. In addition, you are also advised to eat fish, poultry, and legumes. You can still eat red meat, foods containing sugar and fat, but small meals. DASH diet while undergoing this, you are not advised to eat foods that contain saturated fat, cholesterol, and excess fat.See also TLC Diet
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