Cholecystitis inflammatory gallbladder disease.
Is the most common disease of the abdominal organs. Currently, cholecystitis suffers 10-20% of the adult population, and the disease has a tendency to further growth.
This is due to a sedentary lifestyle, diet (excessive consumption of animal fats rich food – fat meat, eggs, butter), growth endocrine disorders (obesity, diabetes). Women suffer 4 times more often than men, this is due to intake of oral contraceptives, pregnancy.
The disease occurs due to inflammation of the gallbladder, and is characterized by a typical clinical picture: pain in the right hypochondrium, nausea and vomiting.
For the prevention and treatment of this disease it is important to follow a certain diet in which there are several major principles.
– Limit consumption of sugar as a source of endogenous cholesterol.
– Eat foods that are balanced in amino acid composition. It is desirable to partially replace dairy protein is soy, which reduces the probability of formation of gallstones.
– Eat vegetable proteins (seaweed, buckwheat and oat cereals).
– Eliminate from the diet of legumes (beans, peas), coffee, and animal fats – they worsen the course of gallstone disease.
– Do not neglect Breakfast, limited in the morning, only a Cup of coffee.
– Eat vitamins. Deficiency of vitamin C contributes to the appearance of gallstones, and vitamin E reduces the risk of their formation.
– Regularly consume plant fiber, especially insoluble.
The mechanism of action of dietary fiber:
– absorb bile acids and excrete them with feces;
– bind free bile acids, which leads to a decrease of the index of lithogenetic of bile;
– involved in the synthesis of bile acids from cholesterol, which reduces the amount of bile;
– change the metabolic activity of microorganisms involved in the transformation of bile acids;
– absorb cholesterol and excrete it in the feces;
– speed up the movement of the contents in the intestinal tube.
Sources of dietary fiber: wheat bran, carrots, beets, buckwheat and oat cereals, cauliflower, eggplant, pumpkin, apples, bananas, oranges, dried fruits.
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