Search And Rescue, Effective DASH Diet Implementing The Risk Of Heart Disease

YOGYAKARTA Lifestyles have a big role in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease. If the lifestyle is unhealthy, then the risk of developing heart disease is getting bigger. There is more and more evidence that diet is the key to a person's risk of getting sick.

A study has shown that the DASH diet reduces the risk of developing heart disease by as much as 10 percent. The DASH diet is a diet rich in fruit and vegetables. According to WHO, heart disease and blood circulation currently cause one in three deaths globally, amounting to 17.9 million. The World Health Organization also recommends quitting smoking, reducing salt, increasing fruit and vegetables on your diet, regular physical activity, and avoiding the use of harmful alcohol.

Research conducted by Beth Israel rathersess Medical Center (BIDMC) at Harvard Medical School. Shows that a high DASH diet of consumption of fruit and vegetables can reduce the risk of CVD by up to 10 percent. DASH is short for dietary approaches to stop hypertension. This diet is a plan to eat that is aimed at lowering blood pressure. Blood pressure decreases are done by eating vegetables, fruits, seeds, including fat-free milk products, fish, nuts, and vegetable oil. In addition, high eating saturated fat and drinking sugar is limited.

This plan to eat is designed to be easy to follow. So that it doesn't rely on fast food and other instant foods. Launching Medical News Today, Saturday, December 10, research was conducted by carrying 437 participants into three groups. Diets are followed for 3 weeks with a small consumption of fresh products, high total fat, saturated fat foods, and cholesterol. Then each group then followed a different diet for 8 weeks.

The average research participants are 45 years old and half are black women. All three groups fall into the category of BMI, hypertension, and physical exercise. In the control group, participants continued the initial diet. The second group, consumed similar foods with additional fruit and vegetables. The third group, undergoes a DASH diet in an 8-week peride. Researchers then calculated the risk of an atherosclerotic CVD (ASCVD) using the Pooled Cohort Equation.

The results showed, compared to the control diet, groups undergoing the ASCVD risk DASH diet decreased by 10.3 percent in the next 10 years. DASH diet itself, in addition to reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, also reduces high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels or good cholesterol. Although the implications are not clear, the DASH pediatric is recommended to increase healthy unsaturated fat production.