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A healthy lifestyle is the cornerstone of disease prevention and improvement of health. While most Canadians know that healthy eating can reduce the risk of chronic disease, they may not appreciate their own dietary pattern, and specifically may not know its associated health risks, or ways of improving it. The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) dietary pattern is effective for reducing high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart disease (cardiovascular disease) risk, yet adherence to this dietary pattern in Canada is low. With this grant support, our team of healthcare professionals and researchers will develop and distribute a web-based, mobile-friendly DASH-Dietary Pattern Calculator that addresses this gap by providing a personalized estimate of the DASH dietary pattern and cardiovascular disease risk. The tool, which we call the DASH-Heart and Stroke (DASH-HAS) calculator will also provide individualized suggestions on how to improve dietary patterns to be in line with established DASH dietary recommendations.