People who received personalized nutrition education in a series of sessions conducted at their regular grocery store significantly improved their adherence to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, in a study presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 71st Annual Scientific Session. The diet, which emphasizes vegetables, fruits and whole grains while limiting foods that are high in saturated fat, sugar and sodium, has been shown to lower blood pressure and LDL, or “bad” cholesterol.
The Supermarket and Web-based Intervention Targeting Nutrition (SuperWIN) Trial, a partnership between academic researchers and the grocery retailer Kroger, is the first to deliver a nutritional intervention in each participant’s home grocery store guided by their personal food purchasing data.
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