Curing Diabetes, High Blood Pressure and High Cholesterol with Diet

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MSN has a good article outlining three diet plans that help stabilize and reverse these common deadly problems. All of them are a pretty radical departure form the typical American crap diet and they all require an exercise plan. But… they all work. The interesting thing is that the participants all said that after the initial shock of eating right and exercising, they felt much better and most were able to quit taking all of their prescription meds. Now, I’m sure that there were failures as well, but the fact remains that most of what ails people in our culture today can be cured with a good diet and exercise.

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The DASH diet for lowering Blood Pressure-

It’s old-fashioned, wholesome fare: more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy products than what’s found in the typical American diet—and less red meat, sweets, added sugar, and sugary drinks. DASH is rich in protein and fiber, as well as potassium, magnesium, and calcium — minerals known to help control blood pressure.

Scientists developed DASH on a hunch. Studies had shown that magnesium, potassium, and calcium helped regulate blood pressure, but supplements never seemed to work as well. So researchers at a number of major institutions created and tested a diet loaded with foods that contain those minerals.

It’s likely that DASH’s nutrients help blood vessels relax; studies show that the diet lowers blood pressure dramatically and fast, says Njeri Karanja, PhD, senior investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, one of the institutions that helped design and test the eating plan. “The size of the reduction is amazing,” Karanja says — big enough to get many people with high blood pressure out of the danger range. Scientists say that if everyone followed the diet, Americans would have 15% less coronary heart disease and 27% fewer strokes.

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Check out the whole article and you will be surprised at the results that can be obtained with diet and exercise. Pass it on to a friend or family member who needs to hear about it. It may save their life.