Answer: The DASH diet -- DASH actually stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension -- is a diet that's based on the USDA food pyramid and it was designed to reduce blood pressure, to control blood pressure.
Graffiti and graffito are from the Italian word graffiato (scratched). Graffiti is applied in art history to works of art produced by scratching a design into a surface. A related term is graffito, which involves scratching through one layer of pigment to reveal another beneath it.
An age old practice, graffiti holds special significance as one of the elements of hip hop culture. Graffiti as an urban art form has existed since at least the 1950s, but began developing in earnest in the late 1960s, and flourished during the 1970s.