DASH Diet Mediterranean Solution Book Review - Nutrition & Health

This report provides a detailed book review of Marla Heller's "The DASH Diet Mediterranean Solution," focusing on its approach to healthy eating and weight management through Mediterranean recipes. The review highlights the book's emphasis on incorporating nutritious foods and its potential to improve personal eating habits. It discusses the author's approach to combining taste with health benefits, particularly in the context of Mediterranean cuisine, and corroborates the book's ideas with recent studies that support the benefits of the Mediterranean DASH diet in preventing cardio-metabolic diseases and fatty liver. The report concludes by reflecting on how the book can assist readers in making positive changes to their dietary practices and promoting a healthier lifestyle. Desklib offers a range of resources, including solved assignments and past papers, to support students in their academic endeavors.

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Introduction
Aiming to understand the aspects of healthy diet, the following paragraphs will delve
deeper into the important aspects of Mediterranean dietary plans. Through a critical analysis and
review of a book, the essay will shed light on the central ideas of the book.
Book
The chosen book is “The DASH diet Mediterranean solution: The best eating plan to
control your weight and improve your health for life. New York, NY: Grand Central Life &
Style”, by Marla Heller (Heller, 2008). This is chosen because it will help in understanding the
various nuances of healthy diet and their usage. A closer look at the author will reveal that she
endeavors to pen-portrays recipes that are beneficial to relieve the various health issues. This
book is specifically chosen because it sheds light on the important areas related to improving and
inculcating eating habits that can help in alleviating the problems.
Points of Interests
One of the chief areas of interest in the book is the section where the author introduces
the sumptuous Mediterranean recipes that combine taste and contribute in promoting the health
of eaters of the food in the topic titled The Best of the Best (Heller, 2008). This is interesting
because the book paves the way for the amalgamation of the delicious meals with the issues
related to leading a healthy life. For instance, the author mentions that Mediterranean diet
contain equal nutritious value even after the inclusion of lean meat. Relating to the personal
experience, it can be mentioned that it is highly important for students to collate healthy diet to
sustain against the hostile and changing environment. This is important for the readers because it
ensures the importance of Mediterranean diet.

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Another topic of Real Food, Real Easy is interesting because it presents the issue of
‘stocking’ the easy and nutritious foods such as fruits and vegetables. The topic is relevant for
the readers because it paves the way for the implementation of the correct Med-DASH Diet Plan
(Heller, 2008). In a very lucid manner, the topic elaborates upon the type of food to be
consumed. Reflecting upon the students’ experience, it can be mentioned that students’ must
incorporate the Med-DASH diet plan to avail the benefits of proper and nutritious diet.
Corroboration
A closer look at the ideas presented in the book will project that the ideas are
corroborated by other studies. Recent studies project that the Mediterranean DASH diet serves to
relieve the cardio-metabolic diseases (Martínez-González et al., 2015). The authors present that
Mediterranean diet acts as the preventer of various diseases. Secondly, another study projects
that the incorporation of Mediterranean diet is recommended to relieve the cases of fatty liver
(Zelber‐Sagi, Salomone & Mlynarsky, 2017). The authors also mention that it is crucial to
include Mediterranean dietary plans in the place of Western eating habits. Thus, the two articles
corroborates the previous notion.
Practice
This book will assist in bringing changes in the personal eating habits. It will also help in
improving and erasing the unhealthy eating habits. Following the diktats of the book, readers can
introduce changes in the professional and personal practices. Thus, this book will help in
identifying the changes that need to be incorporated to lead a healthy life.

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References
Heller, M. (2018). The DASH Diet Mediterranean Solution: The Best Eating Plan to Control
Your Weight and Improve Your Health for Life. Hachette UK.
Martínez-González, M. A., Salas-Salvadó, J., Estruch, R., Corella, D., Fitó, M., Ros, E., &
Predimed Investigators. (2015). Benefits of the Mediterranean diet: insights from the
PREDIMED study. Progress in cardiovascular diseases, 58(1), 50-60.
Zelber‐Sagi, S., Salomone, F., & Mlynarsky, L. (2017). The Mediterranean dietary pattern as the
diet of choice for non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease: Evidence and plausible
mechanisms. Liver International, 37(7), 936-949.