Adherence to a DASH-Style Diet and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke in Women
Somehow I don't see this diet catching on. I'd rather risk my health than live with a total sweets allotment is 5 tbs of Jelly per week.
It’s interesting.....70% of people on the Dash Diet for 3 months can get rid of their high blood pressure medicine...so I’ve heard quoted by a local doctor.
> The plan, called the DASH diet, favors fruits,
> vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk and
> plant-based protein over meat.
What does it work out in terms of
percent of calories from:
carbs, fat, protein?
i.e., how does it compare to “balanced” 40-30-30
plans like Zone?
Both myself, my son and two friends, after blood pressure meds did diddly to bring down pressure - by loosing weight, all brought our pressure down to mid-normal - after having stopped the meds before that.
Picking one possible cause of death is not good science.
The only thing that matters is mortality rates for these different diets. For example they might not have heart trouble but instead get cancer.
The big one — results of the biggest clinical trial of healthy eating ever [Results - NO benefit]
"It was named the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Dietary Modification Trial. A total of 48,835 postmenopausal women (the age most associated the risk for developing heart disease and cancers) were randomly assigned (with each group well matched) to either their regular unrestricted diet or to a “healthy” diet that was low-fat (20% fat) and high fiber, with at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables, and 6 servings of grains a day. The “healthy” eaters endured an “intense behavioral modification program by specially trained and certified professionals” to keep them on their diets. While they backslide a little, they did surprisingly well in sticking to the diet — as good as dietary prescripts will ever get and money can buy — at a cost of $8,498 spent per person!
Healthy eating proved to have no effect on cardiovascular disease. The researchers concluded: “a dietary intervention that reduced total fat intake and increased intakes of vegetables, fruits, and grains did not significantly reduce the risk of CHD, stroke, or CVD in postmenopausal women.” (And among the women who had heart disease at the beginning of the study, the low-fat diet slightly increased their risks for heart disease.) Not surprisingly, as recently reviewed, the body of evidence reviewed by the American Heart Association in looking for support for its “heart healthy” diets for the primary prevention of heart disease, found no support.
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