If you have been diagnosed with coronary heart disease, it is important not only to take the medication but also change the diet.
What to pay special attention to? Avoid foods that contain preservatives and GMO fruits and vegetables grown with the use of a large number of chemical fertilizers.
Bad for the heart also refined products, fatty, fried, smoked. You should limit the usage of salt and sugar, says Natalia Kostina-Cassanelli in the book “Clean vessels, joints, liver, blood. 1000 folk therapies”.
Vegetables, fruits are a great source of fiber. Once in the intestine, fiber is like a sponge, absorbs a part of cholesterol, which is secreted with the bile, and naturally removes it from the body. This improves fat metabolism and reduces the severity of atherosclerosis. Vegetable cellulose is also found in buckwheat, brown rice, oat cereals (but only those that need long cooking), bran. They also need to be included in the diet. Another plus vegetables – they are a source of many vitamins. With heart problems the demand for them increases. For example, if a healthy adults need 75 to 90 mg of ascorbic acid a day, then the disease – not less than 100 mg! Of course, to get all the vitamins from vegetables and fruits can not (often it needs to take pharmaceutical drugs), but there need to more opportunities.
Dried fruit, nuts. The most heart-healthy dried fruit – apricots, are also useful fresh apricots. In the dried apricots contains a lot of potassium, necessary for the smooth operation of the heart muscle. Contains potassium in raisins. Prunes has a tonic effect, increases efficiency, strengthens the body. Good for the heart and jujube (jujube). Nuts – one of the main sources of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, important for heart and blood vessels, the nuts are very high in potassium and magnesium, vitamins b, C, PP. The most heart-healthy nuts – walnuts, pine and almond.
Fats. Fat is different. Consumption of foods such as sour cream, butter, beef, lamb, sausages, of course, have to limit, but to completely eliminate them should not be. These products contain mainly saturated fatty acids. But there are also acids monounsaturated and polyunsaturated (omega-3 and omega-6). They are useful for vessels, and they need to get from food! These fatty acids are found in olive oil. In coronary artery disease it should be consumed at 5-10 g (1-2 tsp) per day.
Polyunsaturated fatty acids omega-3 in many sea fish – mackerel, herring, sardines, halibut. Piece weighing 100 grams is enough to satisfy the daily requirement.
Sources of polyunsaturated acids omega-6 – unrefined vegetable oils: sunflower, rapeseed, mustard. During the day you should eat a total of 1 tbsp
Carbohydrates. In diseases of the heart and blood vessels need to ensure that the share of carbohydrates in the diet is not exceeded. It is especially important to control the consumption of refined carbohydrates: sugar, sweets, muffins, fruit juices. For this there are at least two reasons.
First, foods rich in these carbohydrates are high in calories, they quickly appears overweight. To supply blood those extra pounds, the heart is forced to work harder, it needs more oxygen, but the disease and without this there is oxygen! Moreover, with each extra kilogram the liver begins to produce 20 mg more cholesterol, so the coronary arteries increasingly affected by atherosclerosis.
Secondly, people suffering from coronary heart disease, often have problems with glucose uptake, which is contained in the carbohydrate foods. Recent large-scale study conducted in 23 countries, showed that 73 % of men and 81 % of women with diagnosed coronary artery disease besides diabetes or prediabetes. If these conditions are not corrected, the heart problems will worsen, besides can develop kidney disease, nervous system, vision. Therefore, these patients are recommended to greatly reduce or eliminate refined carbohydrates.
For those who have heart problems, but no obesity and disorders in glucose metabolism, consume sugar, candy and other similar products, but in limited quantities. 80-90 % of carbohydrates should be obtained from vegetables, cereals, grain bread and only 10% from sugar, muffins and sweets. Just a day you can eat a 300-500 grams of carbohydrates, depending on how much you move. Sweet definitely useful dark chocolate – the cocoa content in which at least 70 %. Dark chocolate strengthens the cardiovascular system, lowers blood pressure and cholesterol levels in the blood.
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