“COVID has been our overriding health concern for this past year and potentially distracted us from others, but the reality is, diet is more important than ever.'
The Food and Drug Administration issued new guidance Wednesday for restaurants and food manufacturers to voluntarily reduce the amount of sodium in their food to 3,000 mg per day — still higher than the recommended daily allowance — over a 2.5-year period.
This is of particular concern given that blood pressure is one of the best predictors of cardiovascular health, and cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 killer of people in the U.S. So what can you do? Choose your food — and salt intake — wisely. The Mediterranean diet So what was No. 1 on the list? The Mediterranean diet. It’s based on seven criteria: short-term weight loss, long-term weight loss, effectiveness for cardiovascular disease prevention, effectiveness for preventing diabetes, ease of compliance, nutritional completeness and health risks.
The DASH diet No. 2 on the U.S. News and World Report list? The DASH diet. The DASH diet, short for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, recommends fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, poultry, fish and low-fat dairy products, while restricting salt, red meat, sweets and sugar-sweetened beverages.
The Flexitarian diet In joint second place alongside the DASH diet is the Flexitarian diet. “A flexitarian or semi-vegetarian diet is one that is primarily vegetarian with the occasional inclusion of meat or fish,” according to a review of 25 studies in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Nutrition.
Hold the beef Cutting meat out of your diet, particularly for your last meal of the day, can also have long-term benefits to your health, according to a study of nearly 28,000 people’s dinner habits between 2006 and 2013 published last May in the peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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