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DASH, or Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, is a diet plan recommended for people who wish to control or lower their high blood pressure. The primary emphasis of the DASH diet plan is lower sodium consumption. But much importance is also given to increased consumption of food rich in calcium, magnesium, and potassium, which are nutrients known to aid in lowering blood pressure

Based on two key research studies that were backed by the NHLBI (the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute), blood pressure can actually be decreased through a diet plan that includes low amounts of total fat, cholesterol, and saturated fat, and that is mainly composed of low-fat or fat-free milk and milk products, vegetables, and fruits. The eating plan they determined has since been referred to as the DASH eating plan, which is mainly composed of nuts, poultry, fish, and whole grain products.

Math and science are, without a doubt, some of the most difficult subjects in school. These subjects require you to learn different methods, formulas, and terminologies, and most of the time they can be too much to handle. With the help of this audiobook, you will learn how to tackle the heavy mental workload required by these subjects in the most efficient manner. Using just 30 simple steps, you will learn how to breeze through math and science, and in the end you will also find out that studying can be fun.

In this audiobook, you will learn 30 steps on how to take control of your mind and push your willpower to the right direction. These steps include methods and strategies on how to improve your motivation, improve your health, strengthen your connections, overcome your fears, and reduce stress.

Have you always wanted to record the audiobook version of your work, but were too intimidated by the technical requirements to get started? Then The Stressed-Out Writer's Guide to Recording Your Own Audiobook is the resource you've been looking for!

Chandler Shott just lost his job and apartment. And with only a garbage bag full of possessions and a degree in General Studies, his prospects look bleak. So when his mother calls to tell him he's inherited his uncle's P.I. business in Detroit, it seems like a golden opportunity.

The job market for new grads is tough, and it's going to be tough forever. That's never going to change. You have to make sure your resume is bulletproof, and guess what? Yours probably isn't. Most new grads get poor, if any, instruction on how to craft a resume that knocks employers on their asses and gets them a job. This is the no-holds-barred manual on how to do just that. Rules will be bent, sometimes broken, and conventional wisdom is shot to pieces.

Want a quick and dirty guide on how to set yourself above the thousands of other students worldwide that are competing with you for scholarship money? Josh Barsch has been a scholarship judge since 2003, and he's identified 10 big essay-writing errors that students make every year that rob them of a chance at big-time college money. For the price of a McDonald's value meal, you can get a giant leg up on the fierce worldwide competition for scholarship money.

Are you ready to laugh out loud? Then buckle up and get ready to dive into the stinky world of Jim Bond. Why has Donald Frump gathered The Greatest Farters in the world together for the Fart Games? Does he truly want to prove once and for all who is the Greatest of all time at breaking wind or is there more to this smelly situation? Join Shaka Farter from South Africa, Hiroshi Fartoshi from Japan and many others as they compete in the first ever International Fart Games. This aint the Hunger Games it's the Fart Games.

Being successful in college or university involves more than just "being smart" or even "doing the work." It's more than just a few classes - it's a lifestyle. You will need to work, eat, sleep, and socialize well in order to study well; and you'll have to study well in order to learn and do well in your courses.

Space Cadet Katie Golden is on her way to the Allied Spaceforce Academy when the spaceplane is boarded by Talasian Pirates. Katie is forced to take evasive action to save her treasured chess pieces, the white queen and black king that were given to her years ago by a strange alien boy. Will Katie's actions doom her career before it even starts?

Raspberry Pi : The Ultimate Step by Step Guide Raspberry Pi User Guide gets you up and running on Raspberry Pi, whether you're an educator, hacker, hobbyist, or kid. Learn how to connect your Pi to other hardware, install software, write basic programs, and set it up to run robots, multimedia centers, and more. Gets you up and running on Raspberry Pi, a high-tech computer the size of a credit card.

Serena Wilcox struggles to stay one step ahead of the grandfather paradox in futuristic America, where time travel is now possible. Time travel technology is classified as top secret Project Scarecrow, but Project Scarecrow is compromised. Serena and her crew are hired by the Godel Solution Institute to catch the mystery villains before history is maliciously altered.

Ninety-eight percent of scholarship applications end up in the trash because of a couple dozen common mistakes. And if that weren't bad enough, it turns out scholarship judges are just as tired, frazzled, cranky and prejudiced as the rest of us. If you actually think you're gonna win scholarship money, you'd better know EXACTLY the kind of stuff that guys like Judge Josh hate to see in a scholarship application.

You've probably heard the saying that as you get older, you starting becoming more forgetful and your brain just doesn't function as well as it used to in your prime. Well, that eventuality can be slowed down in a fun way that most people enjoy which is figuring out or solving puzzles. Brain and Memory Games: 70 Fun Puzzles to Boost Your Brain Juice Today will help you improve your concentration and focus your mind.

Short Story Seven-Pack runs nearly three hours and consists of the following short stories: "Eat Your Peas," "Forever," "Free Enterprise," "Have Gum Will Travel," "Overdue," "Send In The Clowns," and "The Lesson."

It was a normal summer afternoon when Mona and Bitsy left the mall to head home after their day of shopping. At least, it seemed normal except for the thunderstorm and the possible tornado, which picked up their Prius and set them down in the middle of a wheat field. Oh, and those calls from North Dakota that Mona thought were a wrong number, they might have had something to do with where the girls landed. They were definitely not in Kansas anymore, and Reuben and Sean McLean were definitely not Munchkin men. The girls want to go home to Littlefield, Illinois in the year 2010, but how?

A Two Moons of Rehnor Novella. Thad realizes his marriage to Leslie is a colossal mistake. In fact, maybe his whole disastrous life is a giant blunder. Before he knows it, he has two kids and no way out from this trap. Leslie's exit gives him the opportunity he has been waiting for and so he heads across the stars to join Admiral Tim and Shelly on the planet Rozari.

When many people think of mental performance they simply focus on the level of intelligence that an individual can have. Little or no focus is placed on how the brain can be kept working at optimum capacity. Improve Mental Performance: 7 Top Tips Tools to Stop Overworking Your Brain Now can help to explain all of this. The main point that is expounded upon is the fact that many individuals tend to spend a lot of time stressing on the amount of work that they have to get through and on finding the solution to do so.

If you are one of the individuals that is seeking health and wellness on not just the physical level but the mental as well, you need to listen to Mental Strength Positive Attitude: 7 Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance In Life. This text gets right to the point and explains the best techniques that can be used to improve mental performance. The author has gone to great lengths to make the text as easy to understand as he possibly can and he also has put his own seal of approval of the methods as these are things that he has tried himself and has found to be successful.