The dash diet is a diet that is focused around guided you to exercise discipline and make healthy and smart choices. Once you sign up the will start to send you emails two times a week with healthy meals plans as well as eating out, losing weight, getting fit and more.
The program is currently being tested on employees of a certain company and after two years the group lost weight, kept it off, improved the quality of the foods they ate and had significant lowering in their blood pressure.
The DASH diet claims that it helps you lose weight sensibly, lower your cholesterol, eat healthier and lower your blood pressure. All those things have been the result of their testing after a two year period.
Not only that but the diet is recommended by the USDA’s 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the American Heart Association, and the US High Blood Pressure Guidelines.
When you sign up for the diet they will teach you about their recommended servings and how to begin eating on their course. It has you eat more fruits and vegetables and low-fat or non-fat dairy.
It has already been proven in studies by the National Institutes of Health to lower your blood pressure in just fourteen days. For people with very high blood pressure that are on medication, it may not eliminate the need for the medication but it will help the body to respond better to the medication.
Besides lowering blood pressure, the diet lowers cholesterol and can reduce your insulin resistance with weight loss and exercise.
In the Dash diet book they have a twenty-eight day plan with you where they teach you to make a plan and implement it so that you can become healthy and stay healthy on your own, for life.
As for health, this diet deserves a ten because of its use of fresh foods and its balance in all the important foods. Besides this, it deserves a ten because of the things that have already been proven about it such as lowering blood pressure.
Once you have learned to do the diet, you wouldn’t be hard to stick to because it would become a way of life.
They also create charts for you to record your meals and exercise and such so that you can stay on top of it. It seems to really help people stick to it. So for ease of adherence it deserves a nine.
It deserves a seven for ease of implementation because it may be hard to start. They send you serving amounts and such and you have to decide on your own to eat them and make an effort to get what you need.
This gets a ten for family friendly because it includes all the healthy foods plus meal plans and serving sizes. They even give you good recipes to try.
This would be great for your family because you do not have to try and think up a recipe that qualifies for the guidelines on your own, they help you.
For the busy lifestyle it also deserves a ten because they wrote it so that you can participate and any level, depending on your schedule.
They recommend being involved because then you will receive the best results, but they design it to help everyone, even those that are busy.
Its long term potential also deserves a ten because it forms habits and a way of eating that will help you for life.
Speed probably deserves a seven because though it is not the fastest at getting weight off, it does get it off and it gets it off in a healthy way. It doesn’t force it; it allows the body to lose it at its own speed.