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Article: Diet DASHes blood pressure // Eating habits as effective as drugs - study
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 26, 1998
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It's called the DASH diet, for Dietary Approaches to Stop
Hypertension.
Now even the Mayo Clinic is on its bandwagon, saying that it can
lower blood pressure and might 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 some 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 researchers estimated.
Even more important, ...