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Sacks says these results need no more testing, but that his future research may focus on the effects of other aspects of the diet on blood pressure...
This has led the Salt Institute, a non-profit association of salt producers, to claim that the DASH diet produced most of the effect and that efforts to combat hypertension should focus on that, rather than on reduction of salt intake...
...DASH-Sodium Study confirms that most of the blood pressure benefits of combining the DASH Diet with sodium reduction comes from the DASH Diet itself, not the amount of sodium in the diet." said Salt Institute President Richard L. Hanneman in a press release...
...according to Sacks, the DASH diet had a smaller effect on the population observed in the new study than it did in 1997; therefore, low salt intake made a significant contribution to the decrease in blood pressure in the recent study beyond what the DASH diet alone would have done...
...second study the DASH diet had a smaller effect," Sacks says. "I don't have an explanation other than that it was a different sample...