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...recent study, a combination of the DASH diet and reduced salt intake resulted in an 11.5-point decrease...
Likewise, patients using the DASH diet, which Sacks said includes "a lot of vegetables, whole grains, fruits, fish and poultry instead of red meat, and fewer sugary desserts and drinks," showed lower blood pressure than those on the normal diet at every level of salt intake...
Sacks and the DASH team say the results make it clear that the government and food industry should work to reduce the level of salt intake in people's diets...
...recommended upper limit [of sodium intake by the Food and Drug Administration] should be lowered," Sacks says. "[Food manufacturers] should reduce the amount of salt in the foods they make and prepare more low-salt varieties of foods, like they do with low-fat foods...
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...