The Complete DASH Diet for Beginners: The Essential Guide to Lose Weight and Live Healthy

by Jennifer Koslo

From one of the nation’s leading voices on heart-healthy nutrition, The Complete DASH Diet for Beginners is your all-in-one guide to lowering your blood pressure, decreasing your cholesterol, and losing weight with the #1 doctor-recommended DASH diet.

The standard American diet is filled with cheap, processed foods that can lead to hypertension and other health problems. The longer you’ve eaten these foods, the more difficult it can be to swap them out for healthy, whole foods. The Complete DASH Diet for Beginners offers the easiest way of starting—and sticking with—the DASH diet by walking you through every step, ensuring your evolution to better health is as stress-free as possible.

The Complete DASH Diet for Beginners sets you up for long-term weight loss and hypertension recovery by delivering:

“DASH in 5 Steps”—a practical guide that will kick start your DASH diet eating plan and simplify your transition to the DASH diet lifestyle. Two 7-day DASH diet meal plans that include suggestions for shopping on a budget and making the most of leftovers. 75 easy, delicious recipes that use no more than 5 familiar main ingredients and serve no more than 1-4 people. Expert guidance from cardiac rehab dietitian, Jennifer Koslo, who has used the DASH diet to help numerous clients lower their blood pressure and lose weight.

As the author of numerous successful meal plan cookbooks, such as The Heart Healthy Cookbook for Two and Diabetic Cookbook for Two, Jennifer knows what it takes to help readers improve their heart health and manage other concerning conditions. Now, in The Complete DASH Diet for Beginners, she shows you exactly what you need to do to achieve the results you want—and serves up everything you need to get there on one simple, delicious, heart-healthy platter.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Diets, Health, Food

311 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 11, 2017

Reviews

[Rachel Strange · Rating 3 out of 5]

Here is the thing, the info in the book is great. The basic ideas, good. I will probably put this book on my “to purchase” cookbook list. But, like many healthy cookbooks it does not feel like it’s written for people who love to cook. It’s all about making meals easy and functional within the diet, rather than making the process of cooking itself enjoyable.

[Jackie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book on the DASH diet. Everything is covered to understand how to live the DASH diet successfully. Grocery shopping and self care is also addressed with plenty of recipes.

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Working on implementing the DASH Diet into my life per my doctors suggestions. This was a great book. I really loved the first section of the book that went over the diet, what it would do for my body, cleaning out my pantry and fridge, shopping, tools to use and even self-care. I loved the different comments on going slow and being patient with yourself. That was so needed for someone who needs to start eating a TON of more veggies than she's used to ;) I also loved the variety of recipes included and a 2 week meal plan example given as well. I'll definitely refer back to this book for the recipes.

[Jody · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely some recipes I want to try!

[AM · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great recipes and meal planning! Great for budding chefs. It sparked my interest in cooking.

[Marg McGrath-Chong · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some handy references and quite a few tasty looking recipes.

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this one. Will definitely be one I purchase for myself.

[Sarah Hartfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of good ideas for DASH recipes--only 4 stars because a lot of recipes were repeated in different sections. So there were quite a few less recipes than it seems.

[Melissa Medley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Straight forward and informative.

[Methuselah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Helpful. Good recipes to try.

[Cindy Cleaver · Rating 5 out of 5]

Many excellent and easy recipes for those who need a low sodium diet. A worthwhile purchase.