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Timothy S. Harlan, M.D.The DASH Diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) is so successful because its foundations are drawn from research on the Mediterranean diet. Many of the researchers who took part in the initial DASH study were the same who detailed the benefits of the Mediterranean diet. If you look at them side by side it’s easy to see how similar they are:

The results of the initial DASH study found that those following the diet had both lower systolic and diastolic blood pressures in those without high blood pressure. The effect in those with hypertension was even greater, with blood pressure reductions of around 11 points. This was profound information at the time, but as researchers are prone to do, they thought that they might be able to do better. The DASH Diet and the Mediterranean Diet


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