ABSTRACT

In this study presented a least cost daily diet plan based on the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet plan in reducing high blood pressure for hypertension patients in Umuahia 1/\hi:1 State. Hypertl'nsion is a silent killer. In our society, as about 3 out of any 5 adult are said to ' jhac high blood pressure. Tl11.· linear programming diet model is one of the models used in linear I 'programming. The data used in this work was collected from, the DASH eating plan as formulated by the U.S. National institutes of health in conjunction with the National Heart, lung jand blood institute which comprises the foods and their number of daily serving, the nutritional , h:onlL'lll or the foods as contained in the West African food composition table complied by food [and.Agricultural organization of the United Nations, cost per serving of the foods gotten from Ubani central market  Umuahia, Abia State and grams of serving sizes of the foods Dietetics ·1· 1 . .ib.iralt1ry in Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, from the analysis using the l\\,11 ,h,bl: si111pk:-. me1hod 011 tht: l\\O different diet models. the optimal Daily least cost Diet plan obtain were as lullov.s: Model I ;21.39 servings of carrot.7 servings of orange,4 servings l of banana. pawpaw. cucumber, guava, watermelon and tomato which amount to N878.39. For ! i modd 2:➔ servings of carrot,3.88 servings of groundnut, 6 servings of bread. 4 servings of 1 cucu111hi:r. 2.05 servings or Yoghurt. 7.52 servings of orange, 4 servings of watermelon and j servings of fish which amount to N 639.55S.