The DASH Diet Plan

The DASH diet stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, and was designed to help lower blood pressure, cholesterol, as well as help prevent diabetes¹.

The DASH diet focuses on reducing your sodium intake, and eating nutrient rich foods, which have been found to help lower blood pressure naturally.

Although this is not strictly a weight loss program, it has helped many lose weight due to its focus on great eating habits.

Fitium is an online personalised diet plan which takes advantage of some of the core fundamentals of the DASH Diet so you can lose weight and reap the DASH benefits.

Click here to find out more about our unique approach to weight loss, and how our personalised diet plan can help you lose weight the smart way.

A taster of our DASH inspired meal plans

Fitium features a wide range of meal plans tailored to your diet needs, that take advantage of nutrient rich whole foods featuring low sodium content.

How Does The DASH Diet Work?

The DASH diet focuses on reducing your sodium intake, and eating nutrient rich foods, which have been found to help lower blood pressure naturally.

Because the DASH diet emphasizes a healthy approach to eating, it may also offer protection against diabetes, stroke, heart disease, cancer and osteoporosis. And whilst the DASH diet is not strictly a weight loss program, it has helped many lose weight due to its solid foundation on great eating habits.

A typical DASH diet meal plan will contain up to 2,300mg of sodium a day (1,500mg) on the lower sodium DASH diet, compared to over 3,500mg of sodium you would normally find in a typical western diet.

Putting the DASH diet into practice

The DASH diet features whole grains, lean proteins, vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds, legumes, dairy with less emphasis on starchy foods, sugars, and Fats.

The DASH diet works in two phases:

Is the DASH diet healthy?

The DASH diet was originally developed to help lower blood pressure, and is founded on sound nutritional science.

The DASH diet was recently voted the healthiest diet in the U.S. by a panel of doctors² and is endorsed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association (AHA)

Is the DASH diet for you?

Although the DASH diet was not originally a weight loss diet, it has been found to help target weight gain factors and help with weight loss.

Plus If you currently consume a typical western diet, then this approach comes highly recommended as it has been found to help prevent many of the diseases associated with our modern diet including high blood pressure, cholesterol, heart disease, kidney stones and diabetes.

How does Fitium compare?

Fitium takes advantage of many of the principles used in the DASH diet, such as the focus on lowering sodium intake, the preference for whole foods, as well as the emphasis on lowering intake of nutritionally poor carbohydrates.

But Fitium provides additional benefits by incorporating these into a diet plan tailored to your diet goal.

These include:

• Helping you find the right macronutrient mix so you can lose weight naturally
• Designing meals that keep you satisfied and cut down on cravings
• Prioritising foods with high nutrient quality to get important vitamins & minerals
• Optimising meals to promote fat burn rather than fat storage
• Optimising meals to promote fat burn rather than fat storage

Finally, Fitium is not just a diet, but a complete weight loss system tailored to your needs, featuring everything you need to start getting results fast.