The firstline 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/howt....

The DASH diet is one of the best studied, and consistently ranks as US News & World Report’s #1 diet. It’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.

I’ve talk about the patronizing attitude many doctors have that patients can’t handle the truth in:
• How to Prevent a Stroke (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/howt...)
• Convergence of Evidence (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/conve...)
• 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/TheA....

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

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/howt... and he'll try to answer it!

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