DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension.
The DASH diet is a lifelong approach to healthy eating that's designed to help treat or prevent high blood pressure (hypertension).
The DASH diet plan was developed to lower blood pressure without medication in research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
The DASH diet encourages you to reduce the sodium in your diet and eat a variety of foods rich in nutrients that help lower blood pressure, such as potassium.