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Article: The DASH Diet for Hypertension. (Post bookshelf: a tastier diet to lower blood pressure).
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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by Thomas Moore, M.D., et al. 264 pages, The Free Press, $25.00
Until recently, all diets for hypertension focused on one not very savory objective: banishing most salt from food. Then along came the new DASH diet, and options for lowering blood pressure suddenly got better and tastier.
Instead of focusing solely on sodium, DASH researchers from eight prominent medical institutes took a different tack. They believed that a low-fat diet rich in three other minerals (potassium, magnesium, and calcium) also could do the blood pressure-lowering trick. In one of the largest studies of its kind, the DASH team demonstrated that a diet high in low-fat dairy ...