The Diet that government suggests for decreasing blood pressure can protect people from heart attack and strokes these are the findings of a large study that gives a fair evidence of it.

Researchers followed more than 88,000 healthy women for almost 25 years. They checked their food preferences and noted how many suffered heart attacks and strokes. Women who had similar eating habits as suggested by the government to prevent high blood pressure were quite protected from the heart disease.

This plan was named as DASH diet and it prefers vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk and plant-based protein over meat. Women with those eating habits were 24% less apparent to suffer a heart attack and 18 % less apparent to have a stroke than women with usual American diets.

Those are significant reductions as these diseases are so general. Almost two out of five U.S. women around the age 50 will ultimately grow cardiovascular diseases that comprise heart attacks and strokes. The women under study were in their mid-30 to late 50s when the research was started in 1980. Earlier research has revealed this sort of diet can help to stop high blood pressure and cholesterol that both cause heart attacks.

The new study came into view in Monday’s Archives of Internal Medicine.
People may think, “If they don’t have high blood pressure, they need not to follow it,” stated by Simmons University researcher Teresa Fung, the study’s lead author. However, the results propose, she said, that “even people with good health should get on it.”

Almost 15,000 women in the study received diets that very much similar to the low blood pressure diet. They ate almost double as some fruits, vegetables and grains as the projected 18,000 women whose diets more closely resembled usual American eating practices.

The research only followed women but men would possibly have the same kind of benefits from it, Fung further added.

The study was partial as it just followed the women and their eating routine for 24 years. That’s a less thorough method than arbitrarily assigning identical groups of women different diets and evaluating results. But that would be particularly hard to do so for such a lengthy time.

Given that restrictions, Dr. Laura Svetkey, director of Duke University’s hypertension center, stated the study gives the best proof of significant long-term benefits from a low blood pressure diet.