Healthy diet for patients with coronary heart disease

Coronary heart disease is a heart disease caused by atherosclerotic lesions in the coronary arteries, resulting in narrowing or blockage of the blood vessel lumen, causing ischemia, hypoxia or necrosis of the heart muscle. Coronary heart disease is a common disease that seriously endangers human health, and the incidence has been rising in recent years. Experts say that there are many causes of coronary heart disease, which have a lot to do with changes in living habits and diet. As people’s living standards rise, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, smoking, lack of physical activity and increased work pressure are all high-risk factors that lead to coronary heart disease. For patients with coronary heart disease, in addition to actively cooperate with doctors’ treatment, they should also pay attention to some dietary habits in daily life. Experts suggest that patients should have a healthy and scientific diet to play a positive role in assisting treatment. Avoid full meals Full meals can induce and aggravate angina pectoris and even myocardial infarction. It has been reported that a full meal is an important cause of sudden death, and more than half of the cases with causes of sudden death are triggered by a full meal. Therefore, patients with coronary artery disease, especially in the case of angina attack, should avoid overeating to prevent angina, myocardial infarction and sudden death. Limit the amount of alcohol Although there is evidence that very small amounts of alcohol may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, alcohol consumption can raise blood pressure, increase the incidence of hypertension and increase cerebrovascular accidents in long-term drinkers, and alcohol consumption can increase resistance to basic blood pressure-lowering drugs. Therefore, it is not advocated to drink small amounts of alcohol as a means of preventing coronary heart disease, and it is advocated that hypertensive patients should abstain from alcohol. For those who have the habit of drinking alcohol must limit alcohol, daily consumption of beer should not exceed 300ml-500ml, wine should not exceed 100-150ml, it is best not to drink white wine. Eat more beans and soy products Beans contain a lot of vegetable protein, in addition to rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids. Beans, especially soybeans, can be called the health food for patients with coronary heart disease. In addition, beans also contain a large amount of fiber and vitamins, trace elements, etc.. Therefore, the Chinese Nutrition Society recommends that each adult eat at least 1 kilogram of beans per month to increase high-quality protein and lower serum cholesterol. Eat more apples Eating apples can bring down blood cholesterol. In addition, apples are rich in vitamin C, fructose and the trace element magnesium, which are all beneficial to the metabolism of cholesterol. Therefore, patients with coronary heart disease should eat more apples. Regular consumption of apples can also lower blood pressure, thus benefiting coronary heart disease. People who eat more than 3 apples a day can maintain their blood pressure at a low level. You can eat eggs, but not in large quantities. Egg yolks have a high cholesterol content, with each yolk containing about 300 mg, which is equivalent to the cholesterol needs of an adult for one day. Therefore, people worry that eating eggs will aggravate coronary heart disease. In fact, this fear is unnecessary, because in addition to cholesterol, egg yolks are also very rich in lecithin, which can esterify cholesterol and make it stable and less likely to be deposited. Research by British researchers has shown that eating one egg a day has no significant effect on blood cholesterol levels. Therefore, it is generally believed that patients with coronary heart disease can eat eggs, but the amount should not be too much, 1-2 eggs per day is appropriate. For people with hypercholesterolemia, especially severe patients, they should eat as little or as little as possible, or they can eat only the egg whites and not the yolk. Milk and yogurt can be drunk Milk is a nutritional good, in addition to high-quality protein, but also contains calcium, iron, B vitamins and so on. Some people worry that drinking milk will raise blood lipids because milk contains more saturated fatty acids, but in fact, 100 grams of milk contains only 13 mg of cholesterol, and the calcium and choline contained in milk can reduce the absorption of cholesterol, so patients with coronary heart disease can drink milk, especially fermented milk (such as yogurt). There is a factor in yogurt that has the effect of lowering serum cholesterol concentration, therefore, eating yogurt regularly has the effect of preventing coronary heart disease attacks. It is also worth mentioning that milk is the best source of calcium, containing about 1 mg of calcium per ml of milk. The human body normally needs about 1000 mg of calcium per day, but at present, many areas in China do not meet this standard, such as Beijing, the current per capita daily intake of calcium is only 500 mg, calcium intake is also an important cause of atherosclerosis and hypertension. Some people report that drinking 600 ml of milk daily can lower blood pressure by 4%. Therefore, patients with coronary heart disease not only can drink but should drink milk, especially yogurt.