This well-researched eating plan helps lower or prevent high blood pressure. It emphasizes vegetables, fruits, whole grains, fat-free or low-fat dairy products, fish, poultry, beans, nuts, and vegetable oils. It limits foods high in saturated fat, such as fatty meats, full-fat dairy products, and tropical oils like palm, coconut, and palm kernel. It also limits added sugars. Sodium is limited to 2,300 mg/day, with additional blood pressure-lowering benefits when limited to 1,500 mg/day.
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When following DASH diet guidelines, you naturally lower blood pressure within two weeks! Learn how to start this nutritious, filling, and well-researched eating plan.
The health benefits of the DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) are impressive. While the eating plan is well-known for preventing and treating high blood pressure, you’ll also see results if you follow DASH for weight loss and disease prevention.
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Whether you call it exercise, physical activity, or moving, learn how to create your own workout plan that becomes part of everyday life. Each of us, despite our interests or physical limitations, can learn to enjoy regular physical activity. The secret is discovering activities you like, are willing to make time for, and can perform without pain or injury. Sit less, stand more, and walk more because being sedentary is frankly a health risk. Being active and fit, even with higher body weight, protects and prolongs health.