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Diet for heart disease
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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The right diet for heart disease will help improve the health of the core, it also helps prevent the development of many problems with the heart and blood vessels.
Even the ancients claimed that we are what we eat. A well-balanced diet can work wonders for heart disease or for their prevention.
First, proper nutrition will help get rid of harmful cholesterol, which clogs the walls of blood vessels. A high level of such cholesterol can lead to the formation of blood clots in the vessels. In combination with a healthy and mobile way of life, a diet with heart disease will help the vessels to stay healthy and supple. This means that they will easily narrow and expand. So, a person will not have problems with high and low blood pressure.
In a diet for a healthy heart, there are several rules. The first is to limit the use of useless food. Now there are many products that contain "empty" calories. These foods quickly satisfy hunger, but do not saturate the body with vitamins, antioxidants, minerals or other useful and nutrients. These products negatively affect the cardiovascular system. They can not be used if you want to maintain heart health, and they are contraindicated for those who already have this organ.
The second rule is to eat different foods. There are five main groups of products needed for heart health and the person as a whole. These are cereals, vegetables, fruits, dairy products, meat and fish. It is very important that every day your body receives food from at least one "representative" of each of these groups of products. Then the heart will be healthy, and life - pleasant.
What is the diet for heart disease?
Many people have the question: what kind of diet with heart disease will help to maintain health? Here there are several types of foods that need to be excluded from the diet or reduce their use. And there are many products that it is desirable to include in the diet for the heart. First, it is important to reduce salt intake. Everyone knows that salt detains water in the body.
In general, salt is healthy and completely excluded from the diet is not worth it. But to reduce consumption does not hurt. Water causes swelling and gives an increased strain on the heart. And this must be avoided. It is important to understand that the salt is contained not only in the food that you cook and the salt, but also in many finished products that you buy in the store. And some vegetables or food are rich in salt. For example, in celery, the high salt content. This vegetable is good for health, but if you put it in soup or salad, then it's worth a little nedosolit.
A lot of salt is put in chips and other, to put it mildly, unprofitable products. A lot of salt is also put in sausages, sausages and other semi-finished products. Therefore, such products are hardly suitable for dietary nutrition. In addition to salt, you need to reduce the consumption of fatty foods. Half of the animal fats are best replaced with vegetable fats. In this case, vegetable oil is better to buy not refined. The less the products are processed, the more useful they are to the body.
For heart health, polyunsaturated acids, such as omega-3, are useful. They can be found in both plant and animal food. For example, there are a lot of them in cereals and in particular in oatmeal. Therefore, breakfast should be nutritious and useful, which means it's better to start the day with porridge. It will perfectly match with fruit. Sweet fruits and honey can replace sugar in the diet. Kashi is rich not only in acids, but also in fiber.
Fiber cleanses the intestines and helps it absorb better nutrients from food. So your heart will get more nutrition. And in the mess you can add nuts to increase its nutritional value and give the heart all the necessary trace elements. One of the key microelements that will help restore the heart is magnesium.
It helps to avoid arrhythmia, lowers blood pressure and is very useful for hypertensive patients. Magnesium can be found in buckwheat, in milk and dairy products, in spinach or parsley, as well as in beans and other legumes. All these products are useful not only for the heart, but also for the human body in general.
Diet recipes for heart disease
Diet for the cores of many associated with something fresh and tasteless. But this is not so, because many diet recipes for heart diseases can be very appetizing. No need to deny yourself a delicious food, you just need to learn how to cook great and delicious.
We all love to chew something or snack on the go. Therefore, the food industry "does not sleep" and piled up counters with different ready-made snacks or snacks. The trouble is that most of these snacks are harmful to health and simply unacceptable in the diet of the cores. Here are a few recipes for healthy snacks. Firstly, cores are perfectly suitable for flakes or balls of natural and whole grains. It can also be crisp bread with low salt content from whole grains.
They can be eaten as a separate dish, but can be used to prepare snacks. For example, flakes or breads (crumbled) can be mixed with nuts and seeds. If you add a dressing from the juice of lime, pomegranate or orange, you will get a wonderful crunchy snack, which is very useful for the heart.
And you can have a snack with dried fruits. If you do not like to eat them whole or separately, you can make useful candy for the cores. Such sweets are suitable for the whole family and can successfully replace the purchased sweets not only to the corpses, but also to the children. For their preparation you need to take raisins, prunes, dates, dried apricots and figs. All these dried fruits are very useful for the heart. They need to be chopped, cut manually or with a blender. You can add nuts, for example, walnuts or hazelnuts. Mix everything together and add honey or natural black treacle.
From the resulting mixture, you can roll balls or give them the shape of hearts. Candy can be rolled in a nut crumb or in cocoa powder. And here are useful and even therapeutic sweets ready. In addition to snacks and desserts, you can prepare useful soups. For example, bean soup. Beans are better to take dried, not canned. Beans are rich in magnesium and potassium and very useful for the heart. Do not cook a strong meat broth for such a soup. Beans, like all legumes, are very rich in iron. Therefore, it is quite possible to cook soup from it.
Beans perfectly match with tomatoes. It is better to put fresh tomatoes, homemade tomato paste or tomato juice. But pepper or chili should not be put, because it can cause arrhythmia and give an additional strain on the heart. Beans are better to soak in advance for the night, so it quickly cooked. In such a soup, you can add broccoli. This cabbage is rich in vitamin P and is very useful for the heart. You can add onions and carrots, but do not fry them in oil. It is better to simply cut into cubes and throw immediately to cook in the soup. In general, roasts are harmful to the health of the heart.
If you properly brew beans, then in addition to vegetables (tomato, potatoes, onions, carrots and celery), you can not add cereals to it. Ready soup can be generously sprinkled with finely chopped parsley, which is also very useful for the heart. Soup can be served with rusks from homemade rye bread. As you can see, diet recipes for heart diseases can be very tasty and useful.
Menu diet for heart disease
How correctly to make a diet menu for heart diseases? Here it is important to consider several key factors. First, you need to control how much fluid you drink throughout the day. This includes not only water, but also compotes, teas, juices or soup. Excess fluid intake increases the burden on the heart.
Secondly, you need to reduce the amount of salt that you consume. It is best to exclude semi-finished products from food, because they put a lot of salt in them. And also chips and other snacks. Salt does not allow liquid to be removed from the body in time and causes swelling.
In the menu you need to include soups, but it's better that they are soup soups. They can be prepared from beans, peas or other legumes. Or cook on the second broth, and the first water from the meat to drain. So you reduce the number of animal fats in the diet.
It is important to at least several times a week to eat fish. It is better to choose sea fish, and the best for the health of the heart is a red fish (salmon, salmon). Vegetables, eggs, meat and fish should not be fried. It is best to cook them or bake them in the oven. So in the products do not emit harmful substances and to the maximum remain vitamins and other useful nutrients.
As you can see, nutrition for heart diseases should be diverse and generally beneficial to the health of the whole organism. And also, it should be aimed at not gaining excess weight.
What can you eat with heart disease?
If you have a cardiovascular disease, it is very important to adhere to proper nutrition. It is important to avoid additional stress on the heart. So, it is important to be in shape and not gain weight, because obesity greatly affects the work of the heart and blood vessels. So, what can you eat when you have heart disease? There are so many products useful for the heart and for the body in general.
It is important not only to choose the right products, but also to prepare them correctly, and also to properly dose them. For example, flour products are not very useful for health, they can provoke a set of extra pounds, which is harmful for a sick heart. But if you choose the right products and correctly dose them, you can not deprive yourself of pleasure.
For example, bread is better to buy one that is baked from whole grains. This can be bread with the slicing, rye bread (it is more useful than wheat bread), bread from flour of coarse grinding, as well as bread with seeds and nuts. These foods are rich in magnesium, different vitamins and fiber. High fiber content is useful for the heart and to maintain its weight is normal. Fiber quickly saturates the stomach and prevents overeating. But it is not absorbed by the body. It cleans the digestive tract and keeps it healthy. In our body, all organs are connected. Therefore, a healthy stomach is also a healthy heart.
And even with cardiovascular disease, it is useful to eat fish. It is better to choose sea fish. It is rich in iodine and other microelements. One of the best fish for cores is salmon. This red fish is rich in unsaturated acids. The animal fat of this fish does not contribute to the accumulation of harmful cholesterol in the vessels. By including this fish in a diet, you will help your body to stabilize the pressure.
Very useful for the heart and different seeds of plants. For example, a flax seed or sesame seeds. These seeds can be added to salads or bread. They can be added to the refueling for baking meat. And also for the heart is useful natural red wine. But its use should be limited and taken in therapeutic small doses.
Why not eat with heart disease?
But there are also products that are strictly forbidden to the cores. First of all, there is a whole category of products that can not be consumed by cores. These are products that have been processed, refined and so on. It can be refined fats, both vegetable and animals. Animal fats that have undergone re-heating are called trans fats. They contribute to the formation of harmful cholesterol in the vessels.
Often, it is these fats that are added to different snacks, such as chips, ready-made crackers, and fast food. Therefore, from the supply it is necessary to exclude semi-finished products and ready-made snacks. And fried food is also harmful. And vegetables, and meat with fish better bake or cook, and not fry. And the dishes of high quality flour are also harmful.
This flour has passed many levels of processing and cleaning. In fact, all the useful substances were removed from it and only "bare" carbohydrates were left. They contribute to rapid weight gain, which should be avoided with heart disease. Therefore, cakes, cookies and bread from white flour should be avoided. And replace them with flour products from wholemeal flour.
And still carbonated drinks are harmful to the heart. They have a lot of chemical additives. In addition, these drinks cause puffiness and give an extra burden on the heart and kidneys. Their use, as well as the use of salt should be limited.