The DASH Diet Weight Loss Solution: 2 Weeks to Drop Pounds, Boost Metabolism, and Get Healthy ~ by Marla Heller, 2012, health
The DASH diet isn't just for healthy living anymore — now it's for healthy weight loss, too. Using the newest DASH diet research, Heller has created the most effective diet for quick and lasting weight loss. This is the only book to bring you the latest updates for the DASH diet, integrated with the latest weight loss research, which work synergistically to maximize results. This effective and easy program includes menu plans, recipes, shopping and lists. Everything you need to lose weight and get healthy. Readers will enjoy a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, low-fat and nonfat dairy, lean meats/fish/poultry, nuts/beans/seeds, heart healthy fats, and limited amounts of whole grains. Banished are the empty calories from refined grains and added-sugars. The result: improved metabolism, lower body fat, improved strength and cardiovascular fitness — with the diet plan proven to lower cholesterol and blood pressure without medication, and without counting calories. Superior to the original DASH diet for heart health and turbocharged for weight loss.
In
last week's Sunday Salon, I mentioned getting one of Heller's earlier books from my library. Both it and the other book available from that library are several years old, so after eating out with friends this evening, we stopped by a bookstore on our way home and bought all three books about the DASH diet the store had. One each. Sandy chose the other Marla Heller book that I had checked out from my library, and Donna got this one:
DASH Diet For Dummies ~ by Sarah Samaan, Rosanne Rust, and Cynthia Kleckner, 2014, health
When high blood pressure becomes chronic, it's called hypertension — a condition that affects 970 million people worldwide — and is classified by the World Health Organization as a leading cause of premature death. While medications can help, nothing beats dietary and lifestyle modifications in the fight against high blood pressure, and the DASH diet is a powerful tool in your arsenal. Focusing on lowering sodium intake and increasing fiber, vitamins, and minerals can help lower your blood pressure in as little as two weeks. It's no wonder that the DASH Diet has been ranked the number one diet for three years in a row and is endorsed by the American Heart Association, The National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute, and The Mayo Clinic. DASH Diet for Dummies is your ultimate guide to taking control of your body once and for all. Originally conceived to alleviate hypertension, the DASH Diet has been proven effective against a number of conditions including Type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, PCOS, weight loss, and more. This book contains all the information you need to put the diet into practice, including recipes and a 14-day Menu Planner to help you get started today.
As we left the bookstore with our new DASH Diet books, Sandy said, "We've just formed the DASH diet support group you suggested earlier, Bonnie." And so we have. This week, I put together a notebook I've labeled "Exercise and Eat Right," which includes information from the books I've been reading and pages I put together to log my exercise, my weight, my blood sugar results, and my blood pressure. Yes, DASH does come from "
Dietary
Approaches to
Stop
Hypertension." My high blood pressure (hypertension) is the reason my doctor put me on this diet in the first place. We're off and running in our quest for dietary and lifestyle modifications, starting with our exercise class tomorrow morning, which I'm leading in the absence of our teacher, who's on vacation. I plan to share this information about various kinds of exercise (from pp.93-94 in Heller's
DASH Diet Action Plan book):
- Resistance Exercise ~ strength training to boost metabolism
- Endurance Exercise ~ aerobic activity to lower blood pressure
- Flexibility Exercise ~ stretching to reduce the pain of arthritis
- Balance Exercise ~ to help prevent falls
Bloggers gather in the
Sunday Salon — at separate computers in different time zones — to talk about our lives and our reading.
I have been so bad with my eating this summer and I can feel it in my clothing. I hate that. I know what I should be eating and I know I should exercise so why don't I do it? That's a rhetorical question, but really, what is my problem?! :-)
ReplyDeleteToo bad you aren't close enough to join the DASH support group with Donna, Sandy, and me. We'll talk about exercise as well as diet, since the DASH diet emphasizes both. Would it help to keep in touch by email? That's the only way you could "join" us.
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