The second miraculous effect of the type of eating against high blood pressure

Scientists have found another miraculous effect of DASH - the type of antihypertensive that American National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute recommends.

The team from Wake Forest School of Medicine (North Carolina, USA) examined the medical records of 4,500 Americans aged 45 to 85, followed for 13 years and found that the DASH diet is often recommended. The report for hypertensive people with a "promotion" effect is to reverse heart failure , one of the most common causes of hospitalization among older people.

DASH diets focus on poultry, fish, whole grains, vegetables and fruits to repel both high blood pressure and heart failure - (illustrations from the internet).

Specifically, for people under 75 years of age, if they eat DASH, their risk of heart failure is 40% lower than those who rarely eat that way or do not eat.

The DASH diet is quite simple: increase fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, whole grains, poultry, fish, healthy vegetable oils such as olive oil, low-fat dairy products; reduce salt, sugary foods, saturated fat foods such as animal fat, full-fat milk, tropical oils (like coconut oil, palm oil).

DASH was researched and published by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (under the National Institutes of Health) and published recommendations 20 years ago to help Americans repel high blood pressure. DASH is quite similar to the popular Mediterranean diet in recent years, except that it is recommended that people choose low-fat milk and alcohol-free.

According to Associate Professor - Dr. Claudia Campos, head of the study, this effect of the DASH diet can be said to be better than any medicine to fight heart failure. In addition to health risks, heart failure also costs patients and families a lot of time and money because of constantly arising situations that require medical care.

The study has just been published online in the scientific journal American Journal of Preventive Medicine.