Diet, Blood disease taboo for fatty

Increased blood cholesterol are closely related to diet yourself. The treatment is simple and most effective is to adjust them in the daily diet of the family. Oriental Medicine Clinic Nguyen Huu Toan please give some hints on the menu help reduce fat and prevent infection in the blood.

People with high cholesterol should know how to control a strict diet. Eat foods that contain cholesterol low as vegetables, the product is made ​​from beans, lean sirloin ... Especially eat green vegetables contain fiber. Only then, the new reduced the absorption of intestinal cholesterol.

- Do not eat up too late with protein food which is hard to digest and will make cholesterol deposits in the arteries leading to atherosclerosis.

- Eat light food because it is beneficial for health and heart disease. Avoid foods high concentration of high-fat, eat low fat foods such as fish, tofu, soya beans.

- Eat foods high in cholesterol reducing effects such as ginger, bean milk products, mushrooms, mushrooms, onions, tortoise, tea, corn oil.

To overcome high blood cholesterol, diet is the number one priority.

Eat less fat

To reduce blood cholesterol, diet only provides less than 30% calories from fat - Avoid animal fats (lard, butter, grease ...) and cream cow's milk: These foods contain many substances saturated fat, the very nature artery. The best way is to select the whole lean, if you should eat poultry without the skin. If the use of dairy foods, choose the type of skimmed (or skim). Even yogurt or cheese should also choose the type made ​​from skim milk or milk fat content of 1-2%.

- Avoid using palm oil or coconut oil. Not only exist separately, these oils are present in vegetable cream to drink coffee (coffee creamers, coffee mate), cheesecake, chocolate ...

- Avoid foods such as margarine and bread form of bars, cakes baked products such as potato chips fried form, instant noodles and food processing industries other available. In these foods have transfat fatty acids can increase blood cholesterol levels. To avoid this acid, if you want butter on bread select soft margarines.

- Use olive oil, canola oil, corn oil, safflower seed oil, soybean oil and sunflower oil. These oils have the effect of lowering cholesterol levels. It should be noted that the total of all fats mentioned above shall not exceed 30% of calories allowed.

Eat less red meat, eat more fish, vegetables

- Limit the amount of red meat (beef, horses, cattle, sheep) consumed less than 255 g / week.

- Eat more fish (two or three times per week) to obtain Omega-3 fatty acid systems, have cardioprotective effects. Salmon, tuna, sardines, herring and mackerel have this kind of fatty acids.

- Increase the amount of fiber in your diet, especially soluble form. These foods are high in soluble fiber are brown rice, and legumes, lentils, barley, vegetables, fruit (apples, pears, guava, plum, orange, grapefruit). These foods reduce the amount of fat and cholesterol is absorbed into the body, helps "expulsion" of bile salts out.

- Load enough folic acid: If acid levels in the blood is too low, homocysteine ​​levels will increase, leading to the risk of heart disease. The researchers recommended daily load of 400 micrograms of folic acid foods such as spinach, orange juice, bread, peanuts, white bean and wheat germ.