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Article: You can DASH to better health with this diet.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- April 15, 1998
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It's called the DASH diet, for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension.
And now even the Mayo Clinic is on its bandwagon, saying that it can lower blood pressure and may offer protection against clogged coronary arteries, osteoporosis and some cancers.
In a trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the diet lowered blood pressure as much as many blood pressure drugs - enough, the researchers say, to make it possible for doctors to consider the diet as an alternative to drugs for same patients.
If the public generally adopted the DASH diet, the incidence of coronary heart disease would drop 15 percent and stroke by 27 percent, the ...