A good book for someone like me who has higher blood pressure. I am always looking for ideas with reduced sodium. Beautiful cover, good recipe ideas.

Thank you to Netgalley and the author for the opportunity to view this book.

DASH is a great way to eat healthy, and this book is a good one to have to start you on the journey. This book has great photos of the dishes with simple to follow recipes. The ingredients are easily available at your local grocery store instead of having to search out a specialty store. There is great advice on nutrition that is easy to understand and follow. Cheers to a healthy lifestyle. Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for the opportunity to review this book. This is by far one of the best DASH cookbooks that I have seen. Looking forward to trying many more recipes.

Dash for Weight Loss by Jennifer Koslo was a pleasant surprise of a cookbook for me. I wasn’t very familiar with the DASH diet, but the cookbook sounded good, so I requested an advanced readers’ copy from NetGalley. And I was not disappointed. The first 69 pages of the book are dedicated to logistics, information, and resources. I honestly skimmed that section, as I was here for the recipes, not the explanation. But there’s definitely some useful information included, such an explanation of blood pressure standards, and suggestions for easy ways to transition to the DASH diet. It also includes recommendations for a balanced eating plan, with recommended servings and serving sizes, some weight management basics, behavior modification tips and tricks, and how to do a kitchen clean out, including reading food labels and restocking the pantry with healthier options.

But then finally there’s the recipes, which are worth the wait. The recipes are not only healthy, but sound delicious. They are light on salt and on animal products like meat and dairy and eggs, relying primarily on lots of vegetables and whole grains. While a heavy reliance on healthy grains like oats and barley means that a lot of the recipes wouldn’t be safe for my food allergies, I still bookmarked so many other of the recipes to try later. The excellent food photography only helped them look even more tempting. Per my usual cookbook reviewing methodology, here’s a list of recipes that caught my eye, and may catch yours too:

Creamy peach quinoa
Quick skillet sweet potato and black bean hash
Salmon, spinach, and butternut squash salad
Asparagus, beet, and cannellini bean salad
Curried roasted cauliflower and lentil salad
Spanish lentil and kale stew
White bean soup with roasted eggplant and red peppers
Two potato cauliflower soup
Roasted red pepper and spinach falafel
Coconut rice with white beans
Creamy cauliflower butternut squash mac and cheese
Crustless vegan mushroom and sweet potato mini quiches
Almond butter tofu and roasted asparagus
Haddock tacos with cabbage slaw
Red lentil and roasted walnut spread
Butternut squash and sage portabella mushroom pizzas
Crispy roasted everything chickpeas
Quinoa tabbouleh
Stuffed sweet potatoes with pistachios and asparagus

Hungry yet? I know I am. I can’t wait to try some of these recipes! I also plan to buy a copy of this book for myself and my family to use. If you’re looking for a way to eat healthier, without sacrificing flavor or giving up animal products entirely, this is a highly recommended resource to help you get started. I hope you’ll check it out.

Thank you to #NetGalley and Crown Publishing for letting me read an advanced digital copy of #DASHforWeightLoss . This is my honest opinion.

DASH FOR WEIGHT LOSS by Jennifer Koslo presents "An Easy-to-Follow Plan for Losing Weight, Increasing Energy, and Lowering Blood Pressure." I like the emphasis on exercise as well as meal planning. Koslo begins by explaining the various stages of hypertension and offers some ideas for preventive measures (e.g., reduce sodium, increase potassium, become more active, etc.). She includes practical suggestions for eating out (choose baked or grilled options, dressing and toppings on the side, drink water) and weight loss (downsize your plates, keep a food diary). Overall, she tries to make following the DASH diet easy and reasonable, with plenty of charts and explanations, all of which takes at least a fourth of the book. Recipes themselves are grouped by meal type and main ingredient and include nutrition information. The pictures are colorful although there could be more. This seems intended for a more experienced cook. Ingredients tend to include some unusual ones (flaxseed meal, coconut milk) and preparation involves several steps.

Some great, easy delicious recipes that don't taste like diet food.

Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

A big thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing/Harmony for the ARC. I am voluntarily reviewing this book. Not sure why I got this book-I think the cover hooked me. I do not have hypertension or high blood pressure. But I did like some of the ideas in the book and healthy eating is never a bad thing. I liked the snack ideas. Thanks for.those!! A solid 3.

While looking online for the best diets for health and weight loss, I noticed that the dash diet is at the very top of the pack on the U.S. News and World report web site coming in at number two. It received this high rating because it is an excellent diet to follow for diabetes, your heart, reduction of blood pressure and . it's one of easiest to follow. If that isn't enough reasons to adopt this way of life, you can also lose weight while on it.

The author has this book starts out with a short overview of the benefits and how the plan works. (This isn't one of those repetitive books where you read 400 pages only to find out you basically highlighted two pages worth of helpful information.!) She follows this with recipes. You won't have to search for ingredients online and special order them either! i didn't come across any that I wasn't already familiar with.

I thought this book was extremely well done and deserves a five star rating.

A good and informational cookbook for anyone looking for better recipes to control hypertension, lose weight, or even just cook healthier meals.

My husband's doctor recommended the DASH diet for him many years ago when his high blood pressure first became an issue. At that time, there were very few articles and practically no recipe suggestions for the diet, just general guidelines that did not help. Over the years, I have still not found much to help expand his diet while still maintaining the DASH guidelines. So, he has had a pretty boring diet. Jennifer Koslo has made a huge contribution to the world of dieters with this cookbook. Her clear breakdown of how the diet impacts health and simple recipes to start the process will make the process so much easy for those people looking to live a healthier live style through fresher eating. I certainly wish I had this book many years ago.

A decent look at weight loss reference materials and set up for the recipes that relate to DASH. Interesting looking recipes. Not the first cookbook I would pick up, but they did do a nice job on it.

Very informative and easy to follow. Author provides a 4wk meal plan, exercise regimen (beginner and intermediate/advanced) and recipes. Great overall presentation.

DASH for Weight Loss gives an excellent explanation of the DASH nutrition plan. The author explains the concepts well and makes them easy to understand. I look forward to trying out some of the recipes. I will recommend this book to anyone looking to adopt an eating plan to not only lose weight but to improve overall health.

This is a good primer on the ever-popular DASH diet, which is consistently rated the healthiest diet for weight loss and heart health. There are literally hundreds of books about the diet so it's hard to say if this is the best, but it provides good information on the basics. I appreciated that Koslo also provides information about exercise, including pretty detailed lists of what to do for each section of the body and sample exercise routines for four weeks, at both beginner and intermediate levels. Most of these require no equipment other than light weights for some.

Recipes are arranged by section like breakfast and smoothies, main dish salads, lean meat, soups and stews, and vegetarian/vegan. The recipes do tend towards meat and substitutions are not provided for recipes that call for meat, but there are lots of veg*n recipes too. Many of the recipes are naturally gluten free. Some less used ingredients are called for like pea protein powder, peanut butter powder and chickpea flour, but most recipes call for pretty standard ingredients -- though they may be more expensive since you're not necessarily eating in season and a lot of produce is called for. In some cases, I found the amounts to be frustrating. For instance, a smoothie called for a tablespoon of avocado, the rest of which is hard to preserve for later use. Sweeteners like stevia are used in the sweets section. Color photos are provided for about 1/4 of the recipes. Nutritional information is provided for each recipe.

I felt that the substantial beginning of the book, which explained the diet and factors like what can sabotage weight loss, to be the most helpful. I appreciated all of the health, diet and exercise tips. That section was quite thorough. I didn't personally care for the sounds of many of the recipes. They seem well designed to work with the DASH diet, but they really reminded me of what you'd eat on a diet and not what I'd choose to eat (though my natural diet is not that far from what DASH promotes). Since the DASH diet is intended to be for the rest of your life, I'd hope for recipes that made that seem a little more appealing. They seem like good recipes though, and should be simple to follow.

All in all, this is a good intro to the DASH diet and will work well to arm the reader with information to implement it.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.