Ooh that's interesting, I was basically vegetarian for the previous 15 years, with the occasional fish or chicken if we were eating out. But, like you I had a bad cheese/cream/butter habit. Turns out dairy is nowt but saturated fat & consequently fairly toxic for the cardiovascular system.
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The American DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) is the default recommended approach for dietary intervention, but is really a plant based whole food diet with some meat added to make it more "palatable" to the western consumer!