Dash Diet

Lose Weight And Maintain Your Blood Pressure At The Same Time

I discovered the Dash diet when I was looking for a new diet to control my high blood pressure and lose weight at the same time. The DASH diet was created to help those just like me. The main goal of this diet is to lower and prevent high blood pressure as well as to lose the weight you desire.

This is a low sodium diet that enables you to eat right and stay healthy. The Dash diet offers two levels, 2400 mg or 1500 mg of sodium daily intake, depending on what your needs are. I just asked my doctor which one would be best for me.

After being on the diet for only two weeks I noticed a huge difference. I felt so much better physically, and I had lost weight. The daily eating plan consists of a lot of fruit, vegetables, whole grains, and other heart healthy foods that are low in salts.

The Dash diet is more of a life changing diet, as it is all about eating right. You do not have to purchase special foods or follow any hard to make recipes, which makes this diet much more cost effective. This diet is based on the main food groups and allows so many servings a day from each group. How many servings you are allowed in a given day are decided by how many calories you have been instructed to eat, or goals you have set for yourself.

You or your doctor may set the daily calorie intake by your age and daily activity level, or just by how much you weigh and what your blood pressure is. How many calories you need will completely depend on how much activity you get each day.

The less active you are, the fewer calories you require, so the less you will need to eat. If you want to eat more then you will have to be more active to counter act the amount of calories to not gain.

What I really loved about the Dash diet is that it offers a calorie guideline that is based on how active I am and my age. This allows me to modify my diet as I need or want to, as I increase my activity level.

There is also an eating plan that tells me each food group, servings per day, serving size, and even gives you examples of what foods are in those groups and what each food offers.

This diet system makes it really easy to calorie count and stay healthy. I have found that I am fully able to not only maintain a healthy blood pressure, but also a healthy weight as well.

I really like the DASH Diet, but anyone who is considering it needs to know this is a life changing diet. It is not something you can just start, lose a few pounds, and then return to your previous diet. It is meant for those who not only want to maintain a healthy weight, but who also need to watch and control their blood pressure.

This is not a diet of convenience, but a major change in lifestyle for a better life. If a low sodium diet is what you have been looking for, this could really be the diet for you. I have never been healthier than I am now.

Review by James Alexander