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 Recently, such a thing as a diet is more and more associated not with a remedy, but rather with a cosmetic one. Diets are mostly advertised as weight loss aids. If diets are recommended to be used, then only for the purpose of general improvement. I do not presume to assert what is the reason for this attitude to diet. Maybe the reason is that the treatment of diseases with diet does not bring profit to pharmaceutical companies, or maybe because in our hedonistic society we want to get everything at once and at the same time not particularly limit ourselves.
In fact, a variety of diets cannot completely replace drug treatment, but they are a powerful adjunct in the treatment of various diseases. The obvious advantage of diet treatment is that it is completely free and requires only the replacement of some products on our table with those products that will be useful to our body and help it overcome the disease. At the same time, however, it is often necessary to also limit the amount of food consumed, but in comparison with the acquired benefits, this inconvenience is simply negligible. The disadvantages include the fact that diets do not have an instant effect, unlike pills, but the effect from them lasts not several hours, but many days.
Consider, for example, diet treatment for hypertension. Hypertension, or more precisely, its consequences (strokes, heart attacks, serious kidney damage, etc.), has recently become firmly entrenched in the first places due to the causes of mortality of the population, having outstripped many dangerous incurable diseases.
The spread of hypertension in recent years is due to the fact that the way of life in our society has changed. The pace of life has accelerated, responsibility has grown, which means that the number of stressful situations has also increased. The work of an increasing number of workers is becoming sedentary. Diet has also changed dramatically over the past 20 years, and it is nutrition (excessive consumption of fats and caffeine) that plays an important role in the onset of hypertension.
Salt intake is a particular risk factor contributing to the development of hypertension. There is a direct relationship between the amount of salt consumed and the risk of developing hypertension, not to mention the fact that the disease in patients who consume excessive amounts of salt is much more severe, with a higher mortality rate and is more difficult to treat.
A variety of diets are used to treat hypertension, each of which is effective for certain symptoms of the disease. The potassium diet is used for hypertension, accompanied by edema. For hypertension, complicated by atherosclerosis, a magnesium diet is recommended, and in case of circulatory failure, a curd or rice-compote diet is prescribed. The fruit and vegetable diet is prescribed for hypertensive patients with increased body weight. For symptomatic arterial hypertension, a hyponatric diet should be used.
It is the hypon sodium diet that is especially effective in the treatment of hypertension.
The human body's need for salt ranges from 0.4 g / day (the required minimum) to 5 g / day (a sufficient level). For reference: one flat teaspoon contains 7g. salt, and 0.4 g. this is 1/17 of this amount. A hypo-sodium diet is characterized by a reduced intake of sodium chloride (table salt), liquids, and carbohydrates. In other words, those substances that contribute to increased excitability of the cardiovascular and central nervous systems are excluded from the diet, as well as are capable of irritating the kidneys.Along with this, the diet contains a sufficient amount of vitamins, plant fiber and substances that contribute to the breakdown of fats in the body. Also, the menu includes a sufficient amount of foods rich in potassium, the ions of which help lower blood pressure.
All meals must be prepared without the use of salt, food must be bland. Meat and fish should be boiled, slight frying after boiling is allowed. The diet includes boiled and raw vegetables without fail. The use of cereals and legumes is possible baked or boiled. The diet also includes pasta, berries, fruits, milk and dairy products. Smoking, hot spices, spices, pickles, marinades, strong tea, coffee, chocolate, alcoholic beverages, fatty meat and fish, as well as meat and fish broths are absolutely excluded from the menu.
The menu can be compiled independently, based on the following recommendations:
First breakfast: boiled meat (55 g) or boiled meat soufflé (110 g), oatmeal, semolina or buckwheat milk porridge (300 g), tea 200 g.
Lunch: apples or dried apricots (100 g)
Dinner: soup with pasta in chicken broth, soup with pearl barley and vegetables or vegetarian borscht (250 g), boiled or boiled-fried chicken (115 g), boiled rice with butter (135 g), compote (200 ml.).
Afternoon snack: crackers (25 g), rosehip decoction (200 ml.).
Dinner: jellied or baked fish (185-200 g), grated or stewed carrots with prunes, vegetable salad with seaweed (190 g).
Before bedtime: kefir (200 ml.).
All day you can eat: white wheat bread (100 g), rye bread (150 g), sugar (25 g). It is better to introduce salt-free bread into the diet.
The energy value of such a menu is 2800 - 3300 kcal.
There should be no less than 5 meals per day.
It should be especially noted that the hyponatrium diet is not an absolutely complete and balanced diet, so you can eat it for no more than 7-10 days. If there is no improvement, you should consult your doctor for another treatment.
Alexey Dmitriev
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