What are the benefits of the DASH Diet?

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Rosanne Rust,MS,RDN · Answer

What are the benefits of the DASH diet? In other videos I explained DASH stands for dietary approaches to stop hypertension, but it is not just for lowering blood pressure. Hypertension meets blood pressure. The DASH diet plan is also good for anyone who is perhaps looking to lose weight or be on a good weight maintenance program. It's great for overall health. It can help reduce risk of not just heart disease but also the risk for certain kinds of cancer like colon cancer. It can reduce the risk for diabetes and keeping your blood pressure normal and healthy helps protect your kidneys. So overall it's just a great diet for reducing your disease risk, reducing heart disease, diabetes risk, and cancer risk. And it helps keep your brain healthy. The MIND diet you may have heard of MIND is actually a combination of the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet. So a Mediterranean DASH diet is the MIND diet and research has shown that a very similar dietary plan to DASH helps reduce cognitive decline and is good for your brain.

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