Description: Get with the plan that is clinically proven to significantly reduce blood pressure. It's not enough to tell hypertensive and prehypertensive patients to, "Watch your diet." Give them a week's worth of sample menus, recipes, heart healthy dishes, and an easy-to-read summary of the findings from the "Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension" clinical study that showed how elevated blood pressure levels can be reduced with an eating plan low in total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol, and rich in fruits, vegetables, and lowfat dairy products. It even has a form to track food habits before starting the plan and a chart to help with meal planning and food shopping. Reviews (10):

Blood pressure is lower now Reviewer: Maria       03-31-2004 My main concern was blood pressure and not weight. Thanks to the Dash Diet my BP is down and i feel alot healtier than i used to. I recommend this diet. Its a great diet for anyone in my age bracket. 55+ years old.

If your BP is much above 120/80 Reviewer: Brad       03-29-2004 If your BP is much above 120/80, you might try the Dash Diet. Ten serving of fruit a day! Here's my easy way: Morning - one pound of frozen blueberries in a cup of light yogurt. Evening - one pound of frozen strawberries in a cup of light yogurt. (total eight servings) - rest of day - one large fruit (I eat a banana). My BP went from 150/100 to 120/80 now. I also exercise one hour/day and lost 14 pounds. Berries have also shown remarkable anti-aging properties (in dogs and rodents). Surprise - one pound of strawberries has only 150 calories. One pound of blueberries has 210 calories. Both are low GI foods. For more info on Dash Diet - www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/

hypertension Reviewer: Mark       03-29-2004 It is widely acknowledged that 60 to 70% of high blood pressure is caused by high insulin levels. Since the DASH diet is effective in dealing with hypertension the logical inference was that it was dealing with the MAJOR cause of hypertension.

Simple. Reviewer: Quentin       03-29-2004 It is about as simple as "Eat vegetables and vegetarians." Eat avocados and/or use olive oil. Don't plunder the storage organs of plants. These days we have too much storage. People with a history of being couch potatoes should not eat couch potatoes unless lest they reinvent the past they ardently wish to escape. In other words eat fish and meat that had a life worth living and worked out. It's called free range folks.

A Diet for Diebetics Reviewer: Mark       03-29-2004 For a diabetic the exact food items and in what amounts will continue to be decided by eating to one's meter in the grain based and fruit food sources. Eating less saturated fat and using more monounsaturated fat sources is interesting in light of the recent "moderate fat consumption" thread and the knowledge that for diabetics saturated fats, among those available, is the least favorable choice; to which this study now lends additional support.

After 2 months of diet Reviewer: Betty       03-29-2004 Its been almost 2 months since i began this diet and my blood pressure is down. However, i don't believe i have lost much weight. If the weight is to drop it must be alot slower than other conventional diets.

My mother was on the Dash Diet plan Reviewer: Patricia       03-29-2004 It did help reduce her blood pressure. Just watch your soduim/salt. Cooking at home rather than eating out helps too. Only you know what exactly is in your food because you are preparing it not someone else who probably could care less about your diet. There are some books on Dash Dieting. I suggest buying one of them and reading up on it.

20 years ago Reviewer: Rainbow       03-28-2004 20 odd years ago when I was a nurses aide, we had a crazy old doc on our unit. Everyone thought he was a fruitcake and well,yeah, he was. Really odd guy. But smart. He was saying then what we take as fact now, dietarily. He had a clue ! The dash diet is similar. It makes perfect sense and it surely wouldn't hurt to try. Myself, I am pretty much eating that way anyhow. You could do worse.

I was on the Dash Diet Reviewer: Ozgirl       03-26-2004 It is a good, healthy diet, nothing faddish. I found that the single most effective change in my diet regarding BP lowering is cutting out salt, and I don't just mean salty foods and added table salt. I ate salt free bread and margarines/butters etc, nothing canned or packaged unless I was sure it was salt free. No commercial sauces like ketchup, Worcestershire, soy etc. I originally did the salt free thing when I was pregnant and had high BP and the doctor didn't want me on BP meds, it worked extremely well and very fast. This of course is not going to work for everyone wiht hypertension.

Dash Diet Reviewer: Elizabeth       03-25-2004 I began following it in June. I do not limit my portions particularly, but I keep pretty much to the fresh fruits and vegetables/whole grains/lean protein/skim dairy guidelines. I also keep an eye on my sodium intake, although I do not limit it per se. Eating pretty much all fres or /home-cooked food enables me to keep sodium down... it's the canned and prepared stuff that's so high in salt. The sodium thing is the subject of DASH2, which is apparently still going on. My blood pressure went down drastically within a couple of months... from 192/64 to 177/26. So far I've lost a cumulative 26 pounds, with some zigs and zags. It's not fast weight loss, but it's steady, and hopefully permanent. I intend to just continue to eat pretty much this way for the rest of my life. It works for me and I like it.

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