Health Library
The Health Library is a collection of health and wellness resources created for learning and accessibility. Select a topic below for related health information or search for a topic in the search bar for more information on other medical conditions.
- Bland Soft Diet
- Breastfeeding Diet
- Chronic Kidney Disease Diet
- Chronic Pancreatitis Diet
- Clear Liquid Diet
- Consistent Vitamin K Diet
- DASH Diet
- Diabetic Diet
- Dysphagia Diet
- Epilepsy Diet
- Gastrectomy Diet
- Gestational Diabetes Diet
- Gluten-Free Diet
- Glycemic Index Diet
- Healthy Bladder Diet
- Heart-Healthy Diet
- Hemodialysis Diet
- High Fiber Diet
- High Phosphate Diet
- High Protein Diet
- High-Calorie Diet
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Diet
- Iron-Rich Diet
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Diet
- Kidney Stone Prevention Diet
- Lactose-Restricted Diet
- Liver Disease Diet
- Low Carbohydrate Diet
- Low Fat Diet
- Low Fiber Diet
- Low FODMAP Diet
- Low Phosphate Diet
- Low Protein Diet
- Low Sodium Diet
- Low-Iodine Diet
- Mediterranean Diet
- Nutrition During Cancer Treatment
- Nutrition During Pregnancy
- Ostomy Diet
- PKU Diet
- Potassium-Restricted Diet
- Potassium-Rich Diet
- Pureed Foods
- Purine-Restricted Diet
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Diet
- TLC Diet
- Wired Jaw Diet
Diet Therapy
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If you are breastfeeding, your doctor may suggest that you eat more calories each day than otherwise recommended for a person of your height and weight. Be sure to ask your doctor about how much and what to eat if you: Are very active. Begin to lose weight rapidly. Are breastfeeding more than one...
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Discusses changing your diet to help protect your kidneys when you have kidney disease. Gives general ideas about how to follow the diet your doctor or dietitian recommends. Covers restricting salt (sodium), protein, phosphorus, and potassium.
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Find out how to eat a consistent amount of vitamin K so your warfarin (Coumadin) medicine will work the way it should.
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The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet can help you lower your blood pressure. It includes eating fruits, vegetables, and low-fat or nonfat dairy foods. For more information on the DASH diet, see: High Blood Pressure: Using the DASH...
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A heart-healthy eating plan is full of foods that can lower your risk of heart disease, heart attack, and stroke. This plan can help you stay at a healthy weight and manage cholesterol and blood pressure. It is part of a heart-healthy lifestyle that...
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Learn how the DASH eating plan can help lower your blood pressure.
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Provides tips on adding DASH diet to stop high blood pressure. Includes sample DASH menu. Explains why adding more fruits and vegetables and low-fat dairy products helps lower high blood pressure. Includes working with experts to help plan menus.
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DASH is an eating plan that can help lower your blood pressure. DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. Hypertension is high blood pressure. For more information on the DASH diet, see High Blood Pressure: Using the DASH Diet. Here is a sample menu for the DASH diet. It is based on a 2,000-calorie diet...
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"I'm a believer!" That's the proclamation from Izzy, a 60-year-old clerk from Petaluma, Calif. She's talking about a way of eating that helped her lose weight and brought her blood pressure way down. "If there were a commercial for the DASH diet,...