Dietary considerations for hypertension and heart disease

  I. Salt restrictions.
  Foods with high salt content should be avoided as much as possible such as
  1, condiments – salt, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, vinegar, ketchup, etc.
  2, pickled products – kimchi, pickled vegetables, tofu milk, lo-mei, etc.
  3, preserved food – sausage, ham, bacon, etc.
  4.Canned goods-vegetable cans, meat cans, etc.
  5.Other – instant noodles, salted bread, large amount of celery juice, carrot juice, etc. Chen Bojun, Cardiovascular Disease Specialist, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  Second, the amount of food at a meal should be small, and the total calories for a day should be limited.
  Each meal should be seven minutes full, and three meals a day should be averaged. Or a small number of meals can be used. Or a small number of meals. The amount of calorie intake should be based on the maintenance of standard body weight and should not be excessive.
  Third, the limitation of fats [especially animal fats].
  Try to use lean meat, do not eat fatty meat, chicken skin, duck skin, etc. Avoid deep-fried, fried or crispy foods. Avoid deep-fried, fried or crispy foods. Use vegetable oil, not animal oil, for cooking.
  Eat a balanced diet.
  Such as vegetables, fruits, fats [vegetable oils], grains, fish [lean], eggs, milk, beans.
  Five, avoid taking too much sugar and starch to prevent obesity.
  Such as granulated sugar, candy, buns, bread, sweet potatoes, taro, corn, etc.
  Sixth, more intake of food containing high fiber to prevent constipation.
  Such as fresh fruits, vegetables, food containing lactic acid bacteria.
  Avoid taking foods with high cholesterol.
  Such as offal [brain, heart, liver, intestines], egg yolk [egg yolk, fish eggs], seafood [oysters, lobster].
  Dietary therapy for heart disease
  1, candied hawthorn
  Efficacy: appetizing, eliminating food, activating blood circulation and resolving stagnation.
  Ingredients: 500 grams of raw hawthorn, 250 grams of honey.
  Preparation: Wash the raw hawthorn, remove the stalk and core, then put the hawthorn into an aluminum pot, add water, decoct until seventy years old and rotten, add honey when the water will be dry, then cook over low heat to collect the juice. After cooling, put it into a bottle for storage.
  Usage: Take 3 times a day, 15-30 grams each time.
  2, corn flour porridge
  Efficacy: lowering lipids, lowering blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, myocardial infarction, blood circulation disorders and other diseases also have a certain therapeutic effect.
  Ingredients: corn flour, rice in the right amount.
  Preparation: mix corn flour with cold water, then boil rice porridge and cook with corn flour as porridge.
  Usage: Take warm in the morning and dinner.
  3, green bean porridge
  Effects: Clearing heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling, lowering fat, also suitable for summer heat and thirst, boils, food poisoning and other diseases.
  Ingredients: mung beans, rice 100 grams.
  Preparation: Wash the mung beans, soak them in warm water for 2 hours, then put them into a casserole with rice, add 1000 ml of water and cook until the beans are rotten and the soup is thick.
  Usage: 2 to 3 times a day to take, summer can be a cold drink often eaten.
  contraindication: spleen and stomach cold, diarrhea is not suitable for consumption, winter is not suitable for consumption.
  4, hawthorn beef stew
  Efficacy: replenish qi and blood, remove stasis, suitable for patients with angina pectoris (heart paralysis) of coronary heart disease.
  Ingredients: 15 grams of hawthorn, 6 grams of safflower, 10 red dates, 6 grams of cooked ground, 200 grams of beef, 200 grams of carrots, Shaozhou wine, onion, ginger, salt and other appropriate amounts.
  Preparation.
  (1) Wash the hawthorn and remove the core; wash the saffron and remove the impurities; remove the core of red dates; slice the cooked ground; wash the beef, blanch it in boiling water and cut it into 4 cm square pieces, pat the ginger loose and cut the green onion into sections.
  (2) the beef, Shao wine, salt, onion, ginger into the stew pot, add water 1000 ml, cook for 20 minutes with medium heat, then add the soup 1000 ml, bring to a boil, put in carrots, hawthorn, saffron, cooked ground, stew for 50 minutes with moderate heat.
  Serving: once a day, eat beef 50 grams, eat carrots and drink soup at will.
  5, Chen Pi Astragalus boiled pig heart
  Efficacy: tonic heart and Qi, de-stress the liver.
  Ingredients: 3 grams of Chen Pi, 15 grams of Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, 15 grams of Astragali, 1 pig heart, 100 grams of carrots, Shaozhou wine, salt and oil in appropriate amounts.
  Preparation.
  (1) Wash the peel, ginseng and astragalus, cut the peel into 3 cm square pieces; wash the heart of the pig and cut it into 3 cm square pieces.
  (2) Heat a pot over medium heat, pour in oil, when the oil is hot, add pork heart, carrot, wine, salt, ginseng, peel, astragalus, add chicken broth 300 ml, boil, and then cook over medium heat until thickened.
  Dosage: 1 time a day, eat with meals.