NHLBI Health Information Center
P.O. Box 30105
Bethesda, MD 20824-0105
Phone: 301-592-8573
TTY: 240-629-3255
Fax: 301-592-8563

NHLBI Heart Health
Information Line
1-800-575-WELL

Provides toll-free recorded messages.

Provides information on the prevention and treatment of heart disease and offers publications on heart health and heart disease.

Also, check out these online resources:

General Health Information

NHLBI Web site: www.nhlbi.nih.gov
DHHS Web site: www.healthfinder.gov
Diseases and Conditions A­Z Index: www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/index.html

Your Guide To Better Health Series

Your Guide Homepage: http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/yourguide featuring:

• Your Guide to Lowering High Blood Pressure With DASH
• Your Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol With TLC
• Your Guide to Physical Activity

Nutrition

Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 and A Healthier You: www.healthierus.gov/dietaryguidelines/
How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label: www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/foodlab.html
MyPyramid and other nutrition information: www.mypyramid.gov and www.nutrition.gov

Physical Activity

The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: www.fitness.gov
Exercise: A Guide from NIA: http://www.niapublications.org/exercisebook/exerciseguidecomplete.pdf

Weight

Aim for a Healthy Weight: http://healthyweight.nhlbi.nih.gov.

Menus and recipes were analyzed using the Minnesota Nutrition Data System software--Food Data Base version NDS-R 2005--developed by the Nutrition Coordinating Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in to view and print the PDF files.

Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with DASH was written and produced by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. NIH Publication No. 06-4082. Originally Printed 1998. Revised April 2006.

Contents

Introduction

What Is High Blood Pressure?

What Is the DASH Eating Plan?
- How Do I Make the DASH?
- How Can I Get Started on the DASH Eating Plan?

A Week With the DASH Eating Plan

Recipes for Heart Health

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