Interesting Facts About The DASH Diet

Success In Weight Loss

The DASH diet is not a weight loss program, but it does assist many patients in achieving their weight loss goals. This is due to the DASH diet guiding individuals towards healthier food choices, such as whole grain bread instead of white bread, more fish instead of red meat, increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables, reducing sweets, lowering sodium intake, et cetera. Making healthier food choices is the first step to a sustainable weight loss journey. This is in addition to the DASH diet’s focus on eating a balanced variety of foods and controlling portion sizes. All in all, it’s a recipe for success in weight loss!

Support Organ Health

Unhealthy dietary choices and high blood pressure are major contributing factors in causing damaged arteries, such as reducing their elasticity, which in turn puts additional stress on an individual’s organs since the blood is not being pumped properly. Two of the common results of improper heart function due to blood pressure and damaged arteries are heart attacks and heart disease.

Another major organ affected by these factors is the brain. By reducing the damage to arteries and by proxy a damaged brain, patients can reduce their risk of suffering a stroke. There is even evidence showing reduced strain on kidney function, meaning a patient is far less likely to suffer from kidney failure when following the DASH diet. Patients need not live in constant worry when they have healthy organs.