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.
Karate comes from Okinawa, which is now part of Japan. It was created by combining the local wrestling with Kung Fu techniques from China. Tradition has it that the origins ofâ¦ Kung Fu come from India. It is now a part of Japan. It was an independent country at one time, a tributary of China.