Weight Loss for People with Coronary Heart Disease

Weight Loss or maybe Diet for heart patients highly effect for Coronary Heart Disease treatment. Here are a variety of diet to heart disease:

Low-Salt Diet

Without the use of salt, Na content in the diet can be reduced to such an unusual amount of Na contained in it. Low-salt diet is basically a regular diet of cooked and eaten without salt. In addition the use of a food that is high in Na content of this diet, reduced.

Things that need attention for people who must abstain from salt diet is not justified in patients using either salt for cooking or for food.

Food that is processed by using salt, such as soy sauce, margarine, butter, cheese, shrimp paste, paste, cakes, and so should not be eaten. Similarly, food preservation using salt such as salted fish, sardines, corned beef, sausage, and so forth. Raw foods high sodium content both animal and vegetable foods should be limited.


Low Sodium Diet

In low-salt diet, is still rather high Na content, which is about 2500 mg. on a diet low in sodium, Na content was between 600 mg - 1200 mg. However, by using only certain foods in the diet, Na content in foods can be kept to a minimum.

Low-sodium diet given only to patients who were hospitalized. One low-sodium diet is the most commonly used is called the Kempner diet. Diet consists of rice and fruits contain as much as 200 mg sodium, 20 grams of vegetable protein, and 460 grams of carbohydrate a day. Amount of fluids given between 700 ml to 1000 ml per day.

Ways to give Kempner diet is as follows:

Patients were given a diet consisting of 200-300 grams a day of cooked rice as rice. Rice should not be cooked with salt. The number of calories derived from rice is between 700-100 calories.

Obtained by adding the extra calories of sugar or fresh fruit. All fruits can be given except Advocates, dates, and fruits that have been preserved / canned fruits. Tomato juice and vegetable juice should not be given.

Low-salt diet or low sodium not only given to people with heart disease, but also given to patients with kidney disease, liver cirrhosis, and pregnancy intoxication.

Patients not only need to limit foods that contain high sodium and salt abstinence, but also drugs or other substances that high levels of sodium as Na-cyclamate (artificial sugar), spices (monosodium glutamate), and so forth.

Patients who have undergone low-salt diet should observe the following:

If kidney function is not perfect, the patient will experience a deficiency of sodium due to the ability of the kidneys to reabsorb Na decreased.
Na deficiency may also occur if patients were given diuretics.
Less salt syndrome may occur in patients, the body becomes weak, loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting. Besides blood pressure will turuh, a rapid pulse. This condition is also called "water intoxication".

In case of acute heart failure patients given the Liquid Diet Karell (Karell Liquid Diet) consisting of 800 ml fresh milk is given by 4 times 200 mg, each given at 8:00, at 12.00, at 16.00 and at 20.00.

Of these patients will get diet calories as much as 550 cal, 28 grams protein, while the content of sodium in the diet was 450 mg Na.

Karell Liquid diets are usually only given to one or two days. If the person's condition gradually better, liquid diet can be replaced with a Low Sodium Diet Software. Salt it should not be given. Similarly, food ingredients or foods high sodium content.

Source: Coronary Heart Disease
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