Mediterranean Dash Diet

Medical professionals are finally starting to realize that the DASH diet is more important than ever imagined. The diet you eat has a strong influence on nearly all aspects of your health, but it's most influential on your future risks of heart disease and diabetes. Moreover, with the research that led to the development of the DASH diet, it was found that the nutrients we eat can even determine whether or not we have high blood pressure.
If you have high blood pressure, be sure to speak with your doctor before making radical changes in your diet, and take up this diet only under a doctor’s supervision. It’s so effective that your continued use of medication will have to be carefully monitored.
In this book, you will learn about the basics of a Mediterranean dash diet, its benefits, different rules to follow. Apart from this, you will also find various recipes along with a meal plan you can use while following the diet. All the recipes given in this book are quite simple and have been divided into different categories for your convenience. Make sure that you stock your pantry with all the ingredients you require before you start at the start. This diet will certainly help you attain your fitness goals.
The fats of the Mediterranean diet offer benefits to heart health that a low-fat diet like the DASH diet doesn’t offer. However, the Mediterranean diet doesn’t include the benefits for blood pressure that the DASH diet does. Therefore, combining the two together to form a new diet can bring the best of both to create a new, better diet.
That Will be the goal of this book. We will describe a new combination of the two diets that help you get the heart-healthy fats found in fish, avocadoes, and olive oil together with the balance and limited sodium of the DASH diet. By combining the two together, you can reduce all of your risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease.
The DASH diet and the Mediterranean diet are both designed for long-term health. They can be considered more of a lifestyle than a diet. Don’t be afraid to make adjustments to your eating plans as necessary to attain optimum health.
This book covers the following topics:

• The importance of a healthy diet
• What is the DASH Diet?
• Understanding Mediterranean diet
• Dash diet and Mediterranean diet, a healthy combination
• Good Fats, Bad Fats
• High carb, low carb, what is the right choice? Dairy and proteins
• Transitioning to the Mediterranean dash diet
• My personal diet plan
• Start the Mediterranean dash diet
• Master meal planner-1-week meal plan
• Weight Maintenance Diet Patterns
• Combining exercise with the Mediterranean dash diet
• Myths about the DASH Diet
• … AND MORE!