Review
Dec 2, 2012 "It's not too late to drop a dress size by Christmas! A brilliantly simple new diet that's sweeping the U.S. targets your tum - and boosts your health." from the Daily Mail (UK)
"The DASH diet: the weight-loss plan approved by doctors. When doctors devised an eating plan to fight high blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes, weight loss was an added bonus. An eating programme devised by doctors to fight high blood pressure has become the latest weight-loss phenomenon and named America's healthiest diet two years in a row." - from the Weekend London Times
January 7, 2013 "U.S. News evaluated and ranked the 29 diets with input from a panel of health experts. To be top-rated, a diet had to be relatively easy to follow, nutritious, safe, and effective for weight loss and against diabetes and heart disease. The government-endorsed DASH diet snagged the top spot." US News & World Report
November 12, 2013. "Recommended are dietary patterns that emphasize fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, poultry, fish and nuts. . . including the DASH eating plan " -- The American Heart Association, The American College of CardiologyJanuary 7, 2014. "To be top-rated, a diet had to be relatively easy to follow, nutritious, safe and effective for weight loss and against diabetes and heart disease. The government-endorsed Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH diet) snagged the top spot." - US News & World ReportAbout the Author
Marla Heller is a Registered Dietitian, and holds a Master of Science in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she also completed doctoral course work in public health. Marla worked as a dietitian at the University of Illinois Medical Center in the Heart-Lung Transplant Unit, the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, and the Cardiac Step-Down Unit.
She has taught thousands of people how to adopt the DASH diet. She was an adjunct clinical instructor in the Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics at UIC, Dominican University, and National-Louis University. She taught nutrition to student chefs at the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago. Marla was a civilian dietitian with the US Navy and worked for the US Department of Health and Human Services.
In addition to The DASH Diet Action Plan, Marla wrote the 4-week menu plan for Win the Weight Game by Sarah, the Duchess of York. She is a frequent featured nutrition expert for broadcast, print, and internet media. She is a spokesperson for the Greater Midwest Affiliate of the American Heart Association, a Past-President of the Illinois Dietetic Association, from which she was awarded the prestigious Emerging Leader Award.
Marla hosts a free online support group on Facebook at dashdietgroup, and can be followed at dashdiet.org, facebook.com/dashdiet, and Twitter @dashdiet.