Researchers followed more than 88,000 healthy women for almost 25 years. They examined their food choices and looked at how many had heart attacks and strokes. Those who fared best had eating habits similar to those recommended by the government to stop high blood pressure.

The plan called DASH diet, favors fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low fat milk and plant-based protein over meat. About 15,000 women in the study had diets that closely resembled the low blood pressure diet, they ate about twice as many fruits, vegetables and grains as the estimated 18,000 women whose diets more closely resembled typical american eating habits.

It's nice to see research that really is aimed at helping people with prevention in a very pratical way, Svetkey said, she noted that the DASH diet, which stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, is available free on the National Institutes of Health Website, the study was funded with NIH grants! For more information check out yahoo.com at news section.

Wow!  so means doing diet can help with our health also but in the proper way, like eating fruits that has lots of nutrients on it and vegetables and also whole grain, I just discover good information that I can apply to our daily living.. hmmmm..

Goodnight to all!