Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure With DASH

by National Institutes of Health

Get with the plan that is clinically proven to significantly reduce blood pressure! This updated booklet contains a week's worth of sample menus and recipes recalculated using 2005 nutrient content data. The "Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension" eating plan features plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and other foods that are heart healthy and lower in salt/sodium. Also contains additional information on weight loss and physical activity.

Genres: Nonfiction

56 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2006

Reviews

[Dianne Owens · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with Dash Eating Plan" was one of the required readings for University of Pittsburgh's "Nutrition and Physical Activity for Health" coursera course. I highly recommend that it be read alongside the short book "Dietary guidelines for Americans 2010", which offers some statistics and fills in numerous gaps in. Incidentally, it is a newer version of the book mentioned in the book I am currently reviewing, which was the 2005 version.
"Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with Dash Eating Plan" offers a guide to amending one's habits for a sustainable change to overall health. Though it offers some guide to understanding labels on groceries and a few recipes towards the back, it does tend to repeat the same information over and over again. It is this same repetition that has led me to lower my rating from a 4 to a 3.

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

At my company we have health coach's that help us with our health. I asked my health coach if she could help me because I needed to lower my blood pressure about 5 points. She sent me a ling to this free e-book and I read it during lunch one week. It wasn't super helpful for me because I do not add salt to my food or eat a lot of processed or prepackaged foods. However, I did get some good tips for watching out for hidden salt in food that I do eat like mustard and canned tomatoes. I've incorporated the tips into my diet along with some extra walking and I hope it helps to make a difference.

[Maria Kristi · Rating 4 out of 5]

The DASH plan is a new way of eating - for a lifetime... love this statement. This book is strongly recommended for all adult, especially for those with increased risk of hypertension. Just like me