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The No. 1 diet for heart health is the DASH eating planhere’s how it works – CNBC

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What you eat plays a major role in maintaining heart health, but with so many buzzy diets out there, it can be hard to determine how to best support one of the most important organs in our body.

Thankfully, the American Heart Association evaluated the 10 most popular diets and ranked them based on which eating patterns "promote heart health much better than others."

Each of the diets were graded on a scale of 1 to 100, based on factors like:

When the scores were tallied up, there was only one diet that received a perfect score: the DASH eating plan. DASH stands for "Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension."

"This eating pattern is low in salt, added sugar, tropical oil, alcohol and processed foods and high in non-starchy vegetables, fruits, whole grains and legumes," AHA said in their statement.

These are the do's and don'ts of the DASH eating plan, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute within the NIH.

Remember to eat foods that are low in sodium and saturated and trans fats, the NIH states. And up your intake of foods that are high in fiber, protein, potassium, calcium and magnesium.

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