If you bought this book hoping to find a blood-pressure-lowering diet with a nifty formula or handy-dandy gimmick, you’ll be disappointed. The same goes if you’re seeking a diet to lower your blood pressure based on some …show more content…
This is no small achievement when you consider how much hype and hyperbole surround the field of health and nutrition. So many wild claims are passed off as fact. A good number of the diets being foisted on the American public by seemingly reputable people simply don’t work, while others are plain dangerous— whether their promoters are promising to help us lose weight, live longer, or beat cancer. Who Needs the DASH Diet? The DASH diet is for you if you have: •high blood pressure
•blood pressure in the “high-normal” range
•a family history of high blood pressure
•the desire to reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, and cancer
•the goal of preventing age-related high blood pressure
•a wish to get off blood pressure medications or lower your dosage
•an interest in feeling better, mentally and physically Of course, if the above conditions apply to someone in your family or anyone close to you, then the DASH diet is for them too. Our diet to lower high blood pressure, on the other hand, was tested under carefully controlled scientific conditions. It was the subject of two of the