How to Follow an Anti-Inflammatory Diet

[Warpy]

5. Yeah, but neither you nor I make the rules

Some people are going to live to eat because that's about all they have, physical pleasures.

Yeah, it was frustrating to see heart failure patients going through a revolving door to the hospital because they couldn't manage to stop eating an unhealthy diet, or they thought they could smoke just a little bit. We all wished they'd wake up, but for one reason or another, they weren't able to. So we tried to buy them a little more good time at home.

I've recently discovered that I'm on the DASH diet through absolutely no effort on my part. Oh, I have a few cheats here and there, but not in large enough quantity to present a problem. Imagine my surprise, I never intended to follow anyone's diet advice.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/dash-diet/art-20048456

Oh, and my blood pressure has been normal without medication for 8 years. Maybe somebody was monitoring my purchases at the grocery store to find out how I did it and wrote it up as a diet. Life is weird.