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...team, which consisted of researchers at Harvard, Duke, Johns Hopkins and Louisiana State, tested 412 people, assigning half of them to the DASH diet and half of them to a normal diet. The subjects then ate foods with high, medium and low sodium for 30 consecutive days...
...results showed that combining the DASH diet with a low sodium intake reduced blood pressure by an average of 7.1 points in healthy patients, and by 11.5 points in patients with hypertension...
...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...
...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...
...contrast, the guideline on sodium unequivocally urges consumers to "choose and prepare foods with less salt." Elsewhere, there's the familiar exhortation to eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, plus a new emphasis on eating whole grains, not just highly processed foods like most breakfast cereals and pastas. For the first time, the guidelines stress the importance of daily physical activity, whether or not you are overweight...