Washington Post
by Jill U. Adams

If you have a chronic health condition — and about 60 percent of Americans live with at least one — you can use food to help manage your problem. Yet too many Americans don’t eat with their particular health demands in mind. … “From a clinical perspective, we do recommend diets based on somebody’s condition,” says Donald Hensrud, a physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., who specializes in nutrition and weight management. The various diets supported by scientific evidence have greater similarities than differences, Hensrud says.

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Context: Donald Hensrud, M.D., M.S., M.P.H. is a Mayo Clinic internal medicine physician. DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. You can read more about DASH here.

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