Nutrition and diets for varicose veins

When varicose veins occur, treatment is necessarily associated with a special diet, which is called salt-free. Restrictions on fluid intake are introduced. People with varicose veins are prone to frequent swelling in the lower extremities. To avoid this as much as possible, you should take diuretics, as well as drugs aimed at raising the tone of the veins, for example, troxevasin.

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Special diets for varicose veins

According to the well-known Indian doctor H.K. Bakhru, before starting the main treatment for varicose veins, the patient should prepare and undergo a special fast that limits food intake. During the fast, you can mainly drink freshly squeezed juices for 4-5 days. This fast is called "juice fast".

Juice fast in Indian style

You can notice the intake of fresh fruit juices. In this case, the fruit diet should be longer and last 7-8 days.

After the fast is over, you should gradually return to a balanced, nutritious diet. The main focus should be on grain products, seeds and nuts. Eat more raw vegetables and fresh fruits.

You should strictly limit, or better yet completely eliminate, the consumption of the following products:

• Spices, seasonings.
• Strong black tea.
• Coffee and coffee drinks.
• Sugar.
• Confectionery.
• All products are made from premium flour.
• Alcoholic beverages.

It is good to repeat a juice or fruit fast for your body every month for 2-3 days.

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Colorful diet

Nutritionists have developed a very effective program that allows you to saturate your body with all the nutrients it needs every day. The essence of the program is that you should eat foods of 5 basic colors:

• Blue, for example, eggplants.
• Green - cucumber, sweet pepper, green peas.
• Red – tomatoes, berries, apples.
• Orange – citrus fruits, pumpkin.
• Yellow - bananas, apples.

This seemingly simple approach allows you to properly balance all the necessary nutrients for a complete diet.

In addition to a colorful diet, you should constantly include foods with a high content of magnesium and potassium salts in your diet. For people diagnosed with varicose veins: treatment is not possible without these microelements.

They are abundantly contained in:

• Dried apricots.
• Prunes.
• Potatoes.
• Nuts.
• Cabbage.
• Wheat bran.
• Rose hips.
• Raspberries, cloudberries.
• Citrus fruits.
• Various cereals.
• Black and red currants.
• Cranberries.
• Gooseberries.
• Sunflower seeds.
• Watermelons.
• Seaweed.

However, it is important to remember that you should never eat these invaluable healthy products at night. The last portion of food should be taken no later than 3-4 hours before bedtime.

Those suffering from varicose veins should also exclude whole milk from their diet. There is already scientifically proven data proving that cow's milk leads to thickening of the blood vessel walls, which makes them hard and inelastic.

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Some gastronomic subtleties

• Light salads of fresh vegetables, seasoned with any vegetable oil, are excellent for strengthening the walls of blood vessels. In order for the benefits to be obvious, salads must be consumed every day.
• You should always remember that it is better to undereat than to overeat. Therefore, you should finish your meal with a slight feeling of hunger.
• When preparing dishes, consider the compatibility of products. So milk and its derivatives are not compatible with fish and poultry, with fruits and legumes. Peas and mushrooms also do not go well, and melon with honey.
• Before you start the main course, you should drink half a glass of water at room temperature so that a certain volume forms in the stomach, preventing it from accommodating more food than necessary.
• Green tea is very useful for people with varicose veins. This valuable drink is good to drink during the day. Green tea helps to thin the blood, which in turn helps to relieve the vessels from excessive stress.
• Fresh currant leaves, preferably black, can be used as raw material for making tea. The berries of this same bush are good for making healthy jellies and kissels, preserves and fruit drinks, which should be included in the daily menu.
• Indispensable first courses on hot summer days are okroshka and green cabbage soup, cooked with sorrel or spinach. Unlike fatty meat broths, these dishes do not destroy the walls of blood vessels and do not have a negative effect on their valves.
• Beef liver, rich in vitamins and many useful substances, is very useful not only for those who suffer from varicose veins, but also for all people who care about the completeness of their diet.
• Your blood vessels will be grateful if you treat yourself to seafood. Copper, which is abundant in all seafood, is vital for our body to participate in protein synthesis. And protein is strong and elastic blood vessels.
• If you have a sweet tooth, you should replace chocolate and chocolate products with nuts and any jams.
• The overwhelming majority of dishes on your table should be porridges. Any cereal is an invaluable source of vitamins, fiber and microelements. For example, rice helps remove excess salts, and millet removes fat. Semolina porridge stimulates metabolic processes, and buckwheat is involved in regulating the formation of blood cells.
• Rye porridge with honey is very useful for varicose veins. The combination of rye and honey activates the body's defenses, which is why it is recommended for patients who have undergone surgery to remove problematic veins.

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Proper nutrition for varicose veins

It has long been established that most human health problems are associated with an improper diet and consumption of not entirely healthy foods. Our body is clogged with decay products that have entered the digestive system with food. Some substances are simply unable to be absorbed by our body, which is why it is gradually poisoned, and unnecessary substances are deposited in all reserve depots.

Reserve depots in the body serve as a kind of storeroom, where useful substances should be stored, which the body will use in the event of an emergency. The place of useful substances in the storerooms of the body is slag.

With the onset of diseases or stressful situations, the body simply has nothing to use. From here, all the negative processes develop that lead to complex diseases, including varicose veins.

Proper nutrition should not be confused with fashionable diets and diets in general. Eating properly means eating foods that go well with each other, complement each other's beneficial effects, or help better assimilation of all the nutrients contained in the foods consumed during digestion.

In order to understand how to eat specifically for you, you just need to visit a nutritionist. Go through all the proposed examinations and follow all the instructions that the doctor will select specifically for the requirements of your body, taking into account the calories you need.

Proper nutrition implies daily intake of a certain amount of all necessary vitamins, microelements and macroelements. They should be taken in exactly as much as a certain organism needs, taking into account its age, employment and lifestyle, no more, no less.

In connection with this fact, it is necessary to eat fresh fruits and vegetables daily, preferably, they should make up the largest part of the daily diet. In cases where eating fruits and vegetables is impossible, they are replaced with full-fledged complex vitamin preparations, which can be purchased at any pharmacy.

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Removal of toxins

As mentioned above, the greatest danger is posed by toxins that form over time in the gastrointestinal tract and are also deposited in all reserve depots of the body, including blood vessels. To reduce the content of toxins, it is necessary to periodically "cleanse" the body.

Fasting days, which are good to do weekly, for example, every Wednesday and Friday, help to remove toxins. On these days, you should limit yourself as much as possible in food intake. The main emphasis is placed only on drinking. It is advisable to use clean water as a drink, in the amount of 2 liters per day.

After completing the fasting day, you need to restrain yourself from overeating in the following days, so as not to minimize all efforts to cleanse the body of toxins.

Diet

Healthy eating is impossible without a strict meal regime. Even the most compatible and healthy foods will not benefit the body if they are taken randomly and in large quantities or only once a day and then at night.

Many modern sources indicate the most optimal number of meals, equal to 5 small portions per day. This type of nutrition is called fractional. With this approach, frequent consumption of food in small portions promotes rapid and complete absorption of all the nutrients received. Between meals, the stomach is completely emptied, and the intestines have already completed the digestion process of the previous portion. In this case, slagging does not occur, because undigested substances are not deposited but immediately enter the large intestine and are excreted at the first opportunity.

So. Fractional nutrition, 5 times a day, in small portions, promotes rapid and complete absorption of food and prevents the accumulation of toxins in the body.

In any case, no matter how many meals a day you choose, you should always limit yourself in eating fatty, fried, smoked, canned, spicy and salty foods. Boiled, stewed and steamed dishes are the most preferable option for cooking food.

When preparing products for long-term storage, you should choose a drying method, if possible. Dried products retain the highest content of all useful substances.

If you notice the first "spider veins", immediately introduce all possible types of cheese into your daily diet. The most valuable is considered to be feta cheese, but regular processed cheese also plays a big role in the benefits of blood vessels.

Fight against excess weight

Being overweight is not the best companion in life. People who are prone to excess weight know this especially well. Varicose veins inevitably accompany everyone whose weight is more than 7-10 kg above the norm. Obese people are contraindicated to eat flour products, including bread. The maximum daily allowance of bread is 3 slices. You cannot completely give up bread, because it is the only source of alkaline substances that neutralize excess acids formed during digestion.

Many medical specialists believe that one of the reasons for the development of varicose veins is the abuse of salt. High levels of salt in the body provoke disturbances in the condition and functionality of all blood vessels.

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Treatment of varicose veins by fasting

It is worth noting right away that this method of treatment is not suitable for everyone. Even those who have no contraindications to therapeutic fasting should go through a preparatory stage before starting to fast.

Fasting, with varicose veins, will not bring any benefit if used as an independent and only method of treatment. It is good only as a supplement to the main drug treatment.

In the process of therapeutic and correct fasting, the healing processes are accelerated. However, for this, we remind you once again, you should strictly follow all the doctor's recommendations, without any self-activity.

Before starting fasting, you must consult your doctor, undergo all necessary examinations, and only after that, you will be prescribed a suitable fasting program.

Doctors recommend starting therapeutic fasting at the beginning of autumn. During the summer period, the body is saturated with all the necessary substances and during fasting there will be no strong impact on the main vital functions.

The periods of therapeutic fasting last for 3 days, after which a break is taken. As a rule, therapeutic fasting is carried out once every 7-10 days.