Diet treatment of hypercholesterolemia

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High cholesterol content in the blood can cause "hypercholesterolemia". Many middle-aged and elderly people with this disease turn pale when talking about "cholesterol" and try every means to avoid high cholesterol food. Which foods are rich in cholesterol? What does the dietary treatment of hypercholesterolemia have?

Diet treatment of hypercholesterolemia

Generally speaking, the daily intake of cholesterol in patients with hypercholesterolemia should not exceed 300 mg (equivalent to the cholesterol content of an egg). If they also have coronary heart disease or atherosclerosis, the daily intake of cholesterol should be reduced to 200 mg. Cholesterol is only found in animal food, but not in plant food. The cholesterol content of various animal foods also varies greatly. For example, the cholesterol content of 100g pig brain and 100g lean pork is 31 times different. Therefore, patients with hypercholesterolemia must pay attention to their cholesterol content when choosing food.

Crude fiber food can promote metabolism. High fiber diet can promote the peristalsis of intestinal products, clean the intestinal tract, promote lipid metabolism, and play the role of lipid-lowering. Therefore, the patients with hypercholesterolemia should take cereals rich in cellulose as their staple food, and even mix coarse and fine grains. Corn flour, oats and sorghum are recommended to be used with rice and flour. Fruits such as apples and bananas, green leafy vegetables such as celery, beans, fungus, kelp, mushrooms and melons contain more plant cellulose and should be eaten more.

Eat more sea fish to protect blood vessels, excessive intake of animal food will cause hyperlipidemia, but people found a very strange phenomenon: Eskimos living in the Arctic are mainly animal food all year round, but the blood lipid level is not high, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events rarely occur. What on earth is "blessing" them? The answer is sea fish. It turns out that Eskimos take sea fish as one of their main foods. Sea fish contain a lot of unsaturated fatty acids, which are more abundant in deep-water sea fish. It can increase the content of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (that is, we often say good cholesterol) and decrease the content of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (that is, we often say bad cholesterol) in human body, so as to reduce blood lipid and protect heart and brain.

matters needing attention

Eat a proper amount of fish, poultry, lean meat, less fat and meat oil, eat more aquatic products, especially deep-sea fish, and strive to eat twice or more a week; remove the fat layer of broth after cooling, use less animal fat, and limit the consumption of vegetable oil, etc. Dietary cholesterol intake was less than 300 mg / D in patients with mild elevated plasma TC. The intake of cholesterol in the diet was less than 200mg / D in patients with moderate or severe increase of plasma cholesterol. Fast fat meat, animal viscera, margarine, cream snacks, etc.