DASH Diet for Beginners:
Learn How the 21-Day DASH Diet Meal Plan Is Proven to Make You Lose Weight and Lower Your Blood Pressure. Improve Your Health and Live a Better Life.
BEATRICE MORELLI
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Table Of Contents
Introduction
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Im sure youve been through diets in your life. If not you, you must have known people who begin a diet enthusiastically, then hit a plateau and give it all up in frustration and resume their unhealthy eating habits. Wondering what the DASH diet is all about? Its a one of a kind diet, specifically designed to reduce blood pressure levels in people. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is one of the greatest silent killers of this century.
DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. The DASH diet is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy products. Its emphasis isnt on deprivation, but on adaptation. The DASH diet aims to change the way people look at food, to educate them about their bodies, and to teach them to make healthy, sustainable choices.
The DASH diet was created to change lives by changing lifestyles. Unlike more restrictive diets, the DASH diet was designed to be approachable, and to be readily incorporated into peoples lives. For the most part, you do not need to shop at special grocery stores or go through agonizing transition periods; you just need to start adjusting your food patterns, one step at a time.
The basics of the DASH diet are simple: Eat more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean protein, and eat less saturated fat, salt, and sweets. Its a common-sense approach to health that really works.
The DASH diet works because its a lifestyle that can be sustained easily, not a traditional diet. The word diet conjures thoughts of temporary deprivation, but the DASH diet is the opposite. It aims at educating individuals on how they can undertake clean or proper eating, on a daily basis, so that they build healthy bodies. Rather than impose strict controls on food content, such as the total number of fat, DASH diet follows important rules of choosing clean foods. When individuals understand the implications of their daily dietary decision making, theyre much more likely to choose wisely. Therefore, it is easy to adopt the DASH diet.
The ultimate goal of the DASH diet is to reduce the intake of harmful foods and to choose healthy substitutes instead. When you understand the damage that bad food does to your body, it makes you far less interested in eating it. And once you wean yourself from excess fat, cholesterol, sodium, and sugar, you will be amazed by how much better you feel! Bad food takes its toll in so many ways, not just silently with hypertension and heart disease, but also outwardly in your appearance, energy level, and enthusiasm for life. If you are feeling sluggish, consider what you last ate. Was it good for you? Or bad? Unless you are fueling your body with good food, it will fail you. The DASH diet isnt a strict dietary regimen, but rather a new way of seeing, appreciating, and consuming food.
Grains, vegetables, fruits, low-fat dairy products, seeds, nuts, and lean meat all form the base of the DASH diet. So, there are no strict restrictions, only amazing benefits. Besides giving you a way of turning to healthy eating habits, the DASH diet is primarily known for showing great results in lowering high blood pressure. This diet is rich in several minerals like calcium, zinc, iron, manganese, and potassium, and these nutrients primarily help to regulate the blood pressure. Also, the diet is low in saturated fat and cholesterol but provides a significant amount of protein, which can also help people suffering from high blood pressure.
Knowing what kind of foods make the foundation of this diet makes it clear that it can also be used to lose weight and excess fat. Following this kind of diet means losing about 500 calories a day. Combine that with exercise, and you will get slim fast. What supports this is also the fact that the DASH diet, rich in protein and fiber, keeps you satiated for longer periods and thus prevents overeating and gaining weight.
The DASH diet is one of the few diets that can help you meet your daily requirement for potassium, which, besides countering the effect of salt to raise blood pressure, also helps in preventing osteoporosis. This diet also provides sufficient amounts of vitamin B 12, calcium, and fiber, which are required for proper cell metabolism, building and maintaining strong bones, keeping blood sugar levels stable, and preventing obesity.
What the DASH diet is
D ASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. This diet was specifically designed with a mind toward people who suffer from hypertension (high blood pressure). When you dive into the statistics, it is actually quite shocking how destructive this condition is. The American Heart and Stroke Association stated in 2013 that 1 in every 3 American adults suffers with high blood pressure. This is a staggering statistic and indicates that something has to be done about it. This was a chief motivator behind the conceptualization of the DASH diet.
High blood pressure affects the heart negatively and may lead to heart attacks and strokes. Since hypertension does not discriminate and all people can suffer from it, the good news is that every person can do something about it.
The diet is high in fruits, vegetables and lean proteins and restricts red meat, salt, added sugars and fat. This is the diets main premise and why it is so healthy for you. The table below gives a brief overview of how you should be eating on the DASH diet.
Food Group Number of servings per day