{"id":13790,"date":"2024-09-28T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T09:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13790"},"modified":"2024-09-28T09:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T09:25:21","slug":"what-is-dash-the-heart-healthy-diet-hardly-anyone-is-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13790","title":{"rendered":"What Is DASH? The Heart-Healthy Diet Hardly Anyone Is Talking About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Dr. Deepak Gupta discusses blood pressure management strategies with his patients, they often jump to say that they know they should cut down on salt, he said.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not the only dietary change that can lower blood pressure, said Dr. Gupta, a cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.<\/p>\n

More than two decades ago, researchers showed that the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension<\/a> (or DASH) diet, which is rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains, could dramatically reduce high blood pressure. This was true even when clinical trial participants consumed high levels of sodium.<\/p>\n

Nearly half of adults in the United States have high blood pressure<\/a>, so a lot of people would benefit from adopting the DASH diet, said Dr. Stephen Juraschek, an internal medicine physician and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet few people actually follow it. In one online survey of 3,000 U.S. adults<\/a> conducted in March, only about 1 percent of the respondents said that they\u2019d tried the DASH diet within the last year. That\u2019s \u201ckind of stunning,\u201d Dr. Juraschek said, because there is so much evidence to back it up.<\/p>\n