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By Kristi Patrice Carter
If you have high blood pressure and need to make lifestyle changes in order to lower your blood pressure, the DASH Diet will help you achieve that goal. The DASH Diet stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension and is recommended by the National Institutes for Health and the majority of doctors and nutritionists. This diet is designed to change your eating habits, which some patients find overwhelming. That is why the book The DASH Diet Action Plan was written.
The book was written by Marla Heller, a Registered Dietician. Heller not only designed the DASH Diet, but she also follows the diet, which has allowed her to lower her blood pressure. She stays on the DASH Diet in order to maintain healthy blood pressure levels.
The DASH Diet Action Plan is intended to be a realistic plan to help regular individuals with busy lifestyles stick to the DASH Diet. For example, it is not realistic for individuals to eat at home every night. People have business meetings, wedding receptions, and other social activities to attend. At these events, it is very difficult to stick to a diet. It is also difficult to make informed decisions because of hidden calories. The book includes everyday eating tips and a guide for when you go out so that you will not fall off the diet wagon.
The book also includes tips to help you incorporate more vegetables into your daily diet. Vegetables are low in calories, high in necessary vitamins and minerals, very filling, and also high in fiber. However, it can be tricky to get the recommended amount of vegetables according to the DASH Diet. This can be further complicated if you truly dislike vegetables. The DASH Diet Action Plan includes tips and tricks to get more vegetables into your diet, even if you hate vegetables.
When you first start a new diet, it can be difficult to know what you should and should not eat. The book comes with 28 days of meal plans, which will help you recognize the patterns in the diet and learn how to eat according to the guidelines of the DASH Diet. The DASH Diet Action Plan also comes with recipes that follow the guidelines of the DASH Diet. Once you start working with these recipes, you will find ways to adapt your favorite recipes to meet the guidelines of the DASH Diet.
The DASH Diet is a lifestyle change, but The DASH Diet Action Plan can help make that change a much easier adjustment and a permanent part of your life.
Dash Diet for High Blood Pressure
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