Is anyone doing this diet or has anyone ever done it? My husband's cardiologist wants him - which equals us - to start. There seems to be an abundance of books available .. but I need recipes. I'd be interested to know if anyone has done it and how successful you were.
The hospital put me on this last year. However after much improvement am not on the Diet. I do buy lower salt foods..or skip certain foods because of the salt content. The Mrs Dash seadonings do help some when cooking. There are many items on the net to aid you in cooking and etc.
Are you on Facebook? There is a low sodium group....Ive seen some good tips and recipes there, lots of info. I'm just guessing that the dash diet is low sodium so just ignore this if it's not. Ive always watched my sodium intake....don't have high BP or hearts problems but I just seemed to retain water easily so even in my younger years Ive watched my sodium. Here is the group....you do have to join I think. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Lowsodiumandhealthyrecipes/
There is some possibility that I am on that type of diet on an intermittent basis because Yvonne does cook with it at times. Other than that, does “when I smell good food I dash to the kitchen” count?
If you have a kindle (or some way that you read ebooks) , then look on the Kindle store at Amazon, and there are literally ZILLIONS of recipe books and diet books of all kinds. I belong to bookbub and book gorilla, and heath and diet books are one of the kinds of books on my preferred list, so I get notified when they are either free or on sale cheap. Since Amazon always puts different books on their free list for a day or so, if you keep checking back, you can get a whole library of recipe books for next to nothing. When I use a recipe, I just take the kindle or iPad into the kitchen with the recipe book open to the page that I am looking for, and it is much easier than trying to use a regular recipe book.
The DASH diet is very similar to the MIND diet discussed in another thread. I would stay away from recipes in the beginning and just eat the things listed for a few weeks until it becomes second nature. When you get used to it you should be able to adapt your favorite recipes using whole grain pasta, low fat cheeses, ground turkey, etc... Good luck!
Dunno. I did a little further checking into “diets” via Google and did run into...D.A.S.H. I was going along just fine until I read that it was promoted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which is a U.S. Government run organization. Thanks to @Beatrice Taylor and the above chart, I do trust it a tad more. But....when I initially read that the government is involved with it I got these little tingles all up and down my spine and neck and Michelle Obama’s face was plastered all over my brain and nearly blinded my imagination. Now that I have shaken that feeling off and I find that there is nothing directly pointed at tofu as being a main course on the chart, I am all better now. Thank you Beatrice for providing me with a much better view of what the D.A.S.H. Diet really consists of and the reasoning for going on one......
Thank you Chrissy for pointing me to that group. I joined and am looking forward to what they have to offer.
Three heart doctors said this to me about salt... Impossible to rid get rid of salt in the diet If you salt at the stove..do not salt at the table The probelm is not always salt but what your putting the salt on If its boxed canned or ready made that is your real problem. I do buy more and more low salt things catsup chips pickles relish soups...to name a few. Make of it what you will..but seems spot on to me.