Pros
Great for those who need to improve signs of ill health typically associated with being overweight, such as high blood pressure and risk of cardiovascular disease.
All the resources you need are free. All the information about the diet and what to eat are on the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute website – you can find lots of recipes and simple explanations and even a 64-page guide to the diet which goes into a lot of detail about how the plan came to exist.
It’s based on a lot of research. The DASH diet was a long time coming and teams at the US National Institutes of Health were working on what eventually became the DASH diet plan for a long time, studying groups of dieters over long periods of time to make sure that the plan works. It’s also been rated as the number one diet for weight loss by US News.