Dash Diet

Dash Diet

Over time, doctors have found that diet affects health and tried to find links between food and health, how they trigger certain diseases or on the contrary, they warn. A general conclusion we can say that governs over all kinds of diets for maintaining health: excesses always cause pathologies. 

One problem I would say that the century is represented by cardiovascular disease, including high blood pressure (hypertension). Hypertension is characterized by increased blood pressure in the blood vessel walls. There are multiple causes of hypertension: genetic, stress, diet, increased cholesterol, atherosclerosis, arterial walls diseases, chronic diseases (renal, hepatic), metabolic diseases, etc. Generally high blood in a vessel is due to be loss of elasticity of the arterial walls (atherosclerosis for example), they are more rigid and can not face differences in systolic blood pressure / diastolic blood volume increases will be pressed more on arterial walls (kidney disease that causes fluid retention such). 

Doctors have studied the effect of food on blood pressure and conducted the most comprehensive study whose outcome has resulted in a diet recommended for people with hypertension - DASH study (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension - diet ways to combat hypertension). It highlighted the close connection between diet and blood pressure evolution and proposed a diet widely accepted by the medical staff, which has proven effective in lowering blood pressure and maintaining its value under control after just two weeks of treatment.