DASH Diet

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  • tracysway
    tracysway Posts: 67 Member
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  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    It is a reference to low sodium diet.
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    My personal fave is Trader Joe's "21 Seasoning Salute."

    I love the stuff and I don't have to worry about sodium.

    I'm trying to watch my sodium now (but not stressing over it) because of the example in the OP concerning his father.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Get your father to sign a HIPPA form (Privacy Authorization Form) so that the doc will feel comfortable talking to you.
    The dash diet is o.k. but has too many carbs and not enough fat to my liking -- it is built on old science.
    An MRI will test for damage in the brain after a stroke.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    The DASH diet is basically a very sensible eating plan that includes loads of veggies and fruits. It is the only diet that actually lowered blood pressure when tested in clinical trials. The study participants were instructed NOT to lose weight during the study, and if they did lose weight they were required to eat more food. The researchers don't know for sure why it decreased blood pressure, but they suspect it was the high-electrolyte aspect (since this diet is very high in potassium). Interestingly, one of the control groups was assigned to eat ONLY the five servings of veggies and 3-4 servings of fruits required in the diet and allowed to eat anything else they wanted, and they also experienced decreased blood pressure.

    This is the type of information I'm looking for. Thanks! Do you have links to these studies?

    Study from 2001:
    http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200101043440101

    Another one from 2001
    http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/1/80.short

    Study from 2010 that discusses weight loss and exercise
    http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=415515
    "Conclusion: For overweight or obese persons with above-normal BP, the addition of exercise and weight loss to the DASH diet resulted in even larger BP reductions, greater improvements in vascular and autonomic function, and reduced left ventricular mass."
  • Azchange
    Azchange Posts: 110 Member
    HIPPA, no he cant.
    I know I can't call her and talk to her about it, because after all, I'm not her patient.

    Actually yes you can. You have every right to call her and talk about your father's diet and the reasons why she put him on it. You can call her and tell her that your father told you what diet she put him on but didn't really have any details and you want her to go over it with you and explain why, what it is etc. etc.
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  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,831 Member
    It basically matches the old food pyramid so may be a little heavy on the carbs given recent research. It pretty much matches the fairly standard diets espoused by major organizations such as American Heart Association, etc.

    The diet as described looks to up your dietary potassium and limit dietary sodium. Whether it works for weight loss, maintenance, or gain depends on how much you eat. So it's still calories in/calories out.

    Your father may want to look at this article about potassium and sodium for more information. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/sodium-potassium-balance/

    Here's a good link for info: http://dashdiet.org/ but they are selling books.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    Get your father to sign a HIPPA form (Privacy Authorization Form) so that the doc will feel comfortable talking to you.
    The dash diet is o.k. but has too many carbs and not enough fat to my liking -- it is built on old science.
    An MRI will test for damage in the brain after a stroke.

    What do you mean by "old science". Scientific studies aren't more reliable just because they are more recent.
  • JoeCWV
    JoeCWV Posts: 213 Member
    Here's what the Mayo Clinic has to offer:

    http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/dash-diet/art-20048456
  • icrushit
    icrushit Posts: 773 Member
    Unfortunately I've forgotten all I read previously about the DASH diet, but just on the blood pressure front, there are a number of ways of keeping that in line. Sodium reduction is one, by all conventional wisdom, as well as increasing/ supplementing magnesium, calcium and potassium apparently (re: Patrick Holford, British nutritionist). Hope some of this may help, and hope all goes well for your dad :)
  • andymicone
    andymicone Posts: 1
    Unfortunately I've forgotten all I read previously about the DASH diet, but just on the blood pressure front, there are a number of ways of keeping that in line. Sodium reduction is one, by all conventional wisdom, as well as increasing/ supplementing magnesium, calcium and potassium apparently (re: Patrick Holford, British nutritionist). Hope some of this may help, and hope all goes well for your dad :)

    Except that one of the subsidiary studies of the DASH diet took the approach of using supplementation with a balanced diet and only found it about 10%-15% as effective as regulating nutrients through an eating plan. They don't know why, but its still good science. I think if you were calcium deficient, however, that is something you could supplement. Calcium is one of those nutrients that's bio-available in almost any form, unlike many other nutrients.

    Anyway its working for me, blood pressure is back in normal range and I'm 30 pounds lighter.
  • pdxwine
    pdxwine Posts: 389 Member
    I am not on the actual DASH diet, but I am on a low sodium one of sorts. My blood pressure was high as well, so my Dr wanted to put me on meds. I do not like taking anything, so she gave me four months to lower it with diet alone.

    After two months, I went in for a neck pain. Of course, my blood pressure was taken. I had gone from 142/92 to 122/80 - diet alone.

    In learning to eat this way, I did pick up several books on the DASH diet at the library. As everyone said - cutting out salt/sodium and eating more vegetables and fruit. You will want to really look at the foods your father likes. You may be surprised by the sodium content of some foods.
  • icrushit
    icrushit Posts: 773 Member
    Unfortunately I've forgotten all I read previously about the DASH diet, but just on the blood pressure front, there are a number of ways of keeping that in line. Sodium reduction is one, by all conventional wisdom, as well as increasing/ supplementing magnesium, calcium and potassium apparently (re: Patrick Holford, British nutritionist). Hope some of this may help, and hope all goes well for your dad :)

    Except that one of the subsidiary studies of the DASH diet took the approach of using supplementation with a balanced diet and only found it about 10%-15% as effective as regulating nutrients through an eating plan. They don't know why, but its still good science. I think if you were calcium deficient, however, that is something you could supplement. Calcium is one of those nutrients that's bio-available in almost any form, unlike many other nutrients.

    Anyway its working for me, blood pressure is back in normal range and I'm 30 pounds lighter.

    I don't know the study you mentioned, but if lowering my blood pressure interested me (at present, mine is ok..), the sceptic in me would want to take a look at the study, but that may be the effect of many years working in the fields of statistics and analysis, with a little bit of research in my background thrown in for good measure, lol.

    In any event, I can't personally endorse what Holford suggested (although I would have a lot of respect for him as a nutritionist), but neither can I with DASH, so I just thought to throw it out there, lest if prove a useful direction for someone to start exploring and see if there was anything to it for them :)

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