dash diet

[dillydally1]

hi,

has anyone heard of this. seemingly reduces blood pressure, lose weight and many more advantages. x

[Zest]

Hi dillydally1 ,

Yes, I've read about the DASH diet before - there's a website (National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute) here which has some good descriptions of it, if you're interested:

nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics...

Zest

[dillydally1 in reply to Zest]

yes i will look at, thank you x

[benwl]

Also here, dashdiet.org

I've heard good things about it, and as its sponsored by the NIH free of some of the commercial bias of others diets.

However, I do remember reading (don't have reference right now) that many of the researchers behind it believe a low oil vegan aka whole food plant based diet would be better - they just didn't believe many people would follow it, hence the DASH diet does allow some meat.

[dillydally1 in reply to benwl]

thank you x

[TheAwfulToad]

It's not really anything new : it's basically the Ornish diet. Dr Michael Greger (who IMO is a complete fraud) promotes a similar one with his books and whatnot.

If you enjoy eating very plain vegetarian food then it may work for you, but there's no evidence that it's a particularly good way of losing weight or enhancing overall health.

I disagree with some of this article, but if you'd like to know why these diets are popular:

academic.oup.com/jhmas/arti...

[dillydally1 in reply to TheAwfulToad]

hi, thanks,will read the article x