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hypertension and high blood pressure symptoms


The DASH Diet for Hypertension
The DASH Diet for Hypertension

List Price: $6.99
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Average Customer Rating: (10 reviews)
Editorial Review: The DASH Diet for Hypertension, recommended by the American Heart Association, has been shown in studies to lower blood pressure in two weeks without the use of drugs. The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy; includes moderate amounts of fish, poultry, and nuts; and reduces consumption of red meat and sweets. Studies from the National Institutes of Health followed 800 participants and found that the DASH diet lowered blood pressure as much as typical medication.

This is no quirky diet--it's the way the major medical groups have been advising us to eat all along, but with a specific formula that tells you how many servings to eat from each Food Pyramid food group. You also get suggestions for exercising moderately, losing weight, reducing salt, and food shopping.

Included are two weeks of daily menus and 62 recipes, with modified favorites like Macaroni and Cheese and Sweet and Sour Pork with Vegetables, plu...


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Summary: Drug free hypertension control
Content: If you need to make sense of hypertension, this book will help you control it and even beat it without drugs. Includes recipes, meal plans and shopping lists.

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This website has information about all aspects of hyertension; symptoms of hypertension, the pathophysiology of hypertension, the definition of hypertension, signs and symptoms of hypertension, hypertension treatments, hypertension cures and information on managing hypertension. the site covers many different aspects of high blood pressure; hypertension in pregnancy, pulmonary hypertension and the symptoms of hypertension, exercise and hypertension, diet and hypertension, lifestyle and hypertension, smoking and hypertension, primary hypertension and secondary hypertension, benign hypertension and labile hypertension. It also explains the phenomenon of white coat hypertension.