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Article: Dietary Quality, Not Dietary Salt, Most Responsible for Healthy Blood Pressure.
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- January 2, 2001
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WASHINGTON and ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ --
"Americans have new hope that a few simple, common-sense dietary changes can reduce their chances of a heart attack. The DASH-Sodium Study is a head-to-head comparison of the achievable DASH diet, rich in fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy products, with the previously-recommended low-sodium diet which has proved so difficult for the public to adhere to. The good news is that the DASH Diet alone has now been proven more effective than salt reduction."
That's the upbeat assessment of the Salt Institute which has long maintained that dietary imbalances, particularly deficiency intake levels of such ...