Health Benefits of the best Diet and 5 Delicious Recipes

Health Benefits of The 

Dash Diet and 5 Delicious Recipes

The plan is based on eating real foods and plenty of fruits and vegetables. It encourages low-fat or non-fat dairy, plus whole grains and some nuts, beans and seeds. While emphasizing lower sodium intake, the Best diet plan is rich in calcium, potassium, magnesium and fiber. Lean meats, fish and poultry are included, but the plan can be followed by vegetarians too. Overall, the Best diet plan is a healthful, flexible eating approach. It can be delicious. Give it a try by enjoying these tasty Best diet-friendly recipes!

1.Chocolate-Mint “Ice Cream” 

This technically isn’t ice cream. But it’s amazing how much it seems like it, considering that it’s made with just three simple ingredients: frozen bananas, cocoa powder and peppermint extract. The texture of it is spot on. The full-flavored combination of cocoa and peppermint helps disguise the banana flavor. You’re basically getting a potassium-rich fruit serving in one of the most dessert-like ways possible. The bonus is that it’s so easy to make -- just purée it in a food processor. That’s it. Have a supersize scoop of it right after a workout. Your muscles will thank you! 

2.Super Green Smoothie 

Drinking a smoothie as a snack can be one of the easiest and tastiest ways to enjoy fruits or vegetables or both. The bevy of produce as well as the natural vivid green color of this recipe indicates it’s one of the healthiest. The fruit highlight here is mango, which provides all of the vitamin C you need in the day in one serving of this smoothie. It also features fresh ginger and jalapeno, giving it a nice kick. If you like, whirl up the smoothie in the blender, pour it into a thermos or reusable bottle and take it to go. Just keep it chilled and drink it preferably within a couple of hours. It’s a quenching treat for your taste buds.

3.Spicy Bean Chili 

When it’s chilly outside, a bowl of chili can quickly warm you up inside. If you prefer a vegetarian meal, this is it. Luckily, it only requires 20 minutes on the stovetop. It’s loaded with vegetable goodness, including onions, jalapenos, kidney beans and canned tomatoes. Interestingly, when tomatoes are processed to create the canned version, it makes the carotenoid lycopene in the tomatoes more available to your body than it is from fresh tomatoes. Lycopene, an antioxidant as well as a pigment that makes tomatoes red, is associated with lower risk of prostate, lung and stomach cancers. So you’ll be able to slurp up this robust chili knowing it has benefits beyond just fitting into the DASH diet.

4. Rotisserie Chicken Salad With Creamy Tarragon Dressing 

Have a hankering for a creamy, comforting chicken-salad sandwich? Try this: It’ll satisfy your taste buds while still fitting into the DASH diet plan. One trick to keeping it trim is using a cleverly healthful salad dressing. You’ll just toss cannellini or other white beans, white balsamic vinegar, extra-virgin olive oil, garlic and fresh tarragon in a blender and whirl. The beans make it creamy while sneaking extra fiber and protein into your salad. The salad recipe is kept simple from there. You’ll top a bed of mesclun or baby arugula with cubes of rotisserie chicken breast (preferably organic), red grapes, cucumber, toasted pine nuts, more beans and tarragon and black pepper. It’s a winner!

5.Wild Mushroom Oatmeal 

If you compare a breakfast bowl of cornflakes to oatmeal, the oatmeal provides more satiety (a feeling of fullness) and may contribute to lower calorie intake at lunchtime. That’s what a new study in the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism finds. This recipe is a bowl of delightful, filling oatmeal, but with a twist. Rather than adding anything fruity or sugary, this oatmeal is 100 percent savory. It’s packed with sauteed wild mushrooms, and fresh rosemary provides an herbal note. The star is the egg on top. You can sprinkle the oatmeal with Romano cheese, if you prefer. It’s kind of like risotto. And it’s a breakfast-recipe keeper.