How to Treat High Blood Pressure with Diet

The first-line treatment for hypertension is lifestyle modification, which often includes the DASH diet. What is it and how can it be improved?

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This is the companion video to How to Prevent High Blood Pressure with Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-t...).

The DASH diet is one of the best studied, and consistently ranks as US News & World Reportâ??s #1 diet. Itâ??s one of the few diets that medical students are taught about in medical school. I was so fascinated to learn of its origins as a compromise between practicality and efficacy.

Iâ??ve talk about the patronizing attitude many doctors have that patients canâ??t handle the truth in:
â?¢ How to Prevent a Stroke (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-t...)
â?¢ Convergence of Evidence (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/conve...)
â?¢ Halving Heart Attack Risk (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/halvi...)

What would hearing the truth from your physician sound like? See Fully Consensual Heart Disease Treatment (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fully...) and The Actual Benefit of Diet vs. Drugs (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/The-A...).

For more on what plants can do for high blood pressure see:
â?¢ Hibiscus Tea vs. Plant-Based Diets for Hypertension (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/hibis...)
â?¢ Flax Seeds for Hypertension (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flax-...)
â?¢ Drugs and the Demise of the Rice Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/drugs...)

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