INTRODUCTION
Food choices affect the likelihood of developing high blood pressure (hypertension), (type two) diabetes and hypercholesterolemia.
The dash diet aims to keep the heart healthy by limiting saturated fat and cholesterol intake
The dash diet focuses on foods high in calcium, potassium and magnesium. These nutrients can lower blood pressure.
Taking calcium, potassium and magnesium supplements do not have the same effect as eating foods high in these nutrients.
Do not make big changes in your diet suddenly. Make small changes and do not abandon them. Once those changes become a habit, incorporate some more changes.
It will be more successful if you make a plan that includes long and short-term goals and ideas to overcome barriers, that is, factors that could stand in your way of changing your eating habits.
The support of family and friends can contribute greatly to help you succeed in changing your habits.
Don't be afraid to let your family and friends know what you are trying to do. And ask them for help.
Recent research shows that it is possible to lower the pressure by adopting the DASH diet (an acronym that stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) and taking less sodium (contained in particular in cooking salt and in many foods of industrial origin).
Both of these factors, even faced individually, can lower the pressure; combining the diet and the lower sodium intake, however, it is possible to obtain the greatest benefits and contribute to the prevention of hypertension, with further results associating a regular practice of physical activity .
In this book you would learn a correct diet to decrease the pressure and we also get some suggestions to reduce the amount of sodium taken with food. You will see useful tips on starting the diet and how to continue it in this eBook.
The Dash diet is the dietary model designed to lower blood pressure and improves heart health. The Dash diet is also a correct diet plan to lose weight in health.
Start the DASH diet right now: it can help you prevent or control high blood pressure, but that's not all, because it can have benefits for the heart, it can be used as a slimming diet and is well suited to any nutritional need.