What you choose to eat affects your chances of developing high blood pressure, or hypertension (the medical term). Recent studies show that blood pressure can be lowered by following the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan—and by eating less salt, also called sodium. while each step alone lowers blood pressure, the combination of the eating plan and a reduced sodium intake gives the biggest benefit and may help prevent the development of high blood pressure.
This booklet, based on the DASH research findings, tells how to follow the DASH eating plan and reduce the amount of sodium you consume. It offers tips on how to start and stay on the eating plan, as well as a week of menus and some recipes. The menus and recipes are given for two levels of daily sodium consumption— 2,300 and 1,500 milligrams per day. Twenty-three hundred milligrams is the highest level considered acceptable by the National High Blood Pressure Education Program. It is also the highest amount recommended for healthy Americans by the 2005 “U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans.” The 1,500 milligram level can lower blood pressure further and more recently is the amount recommended by the Institute of Medicine as an adequate intake level and one that most people should try to achieve.
Throughout the last 15 years international business cycle models have been used to analyze the international transmission of technology shocks. Irrespective of specific assumptions on the structure of international asset markets and on firm’s price setting behavior, these models generally provide a very similar account of how technology shocks impact the economy and are propagated over time and across countries. This standard transmission mechanism can be summarized as follows: In response to a country specific positive technology shock, domestic output expands and its relative price falls (i.e. the domestic terms of trade depreciate).
Lease use is both significant and widespread across European firms. In 2003, it accounted for more than 14% of gross fixed capital formation in Europe, and new business amounted to 193 billion euros (Leaseurope, 2003). The UK accounted for 17% of total European leasing activity, coming second to Germany (22%) and matching the level undertaken in Italy. Why do firms obtain the use of business assets through leasing, rather than borrowing to finance purchase?
