Patients with coronary heart disease should also pay attention to selecting the following foods in their daily diet, which have the effect of lowering blood lipids, blood pressure, and cholesterol.
1. Oats: Contain 15% protein, 9% fat, and are rich in linoleic acid, oat gum, and soluble fiber. Regular consumption can lower cholesterol and reduce high blood sugar.
2. Corn: Corn has the effect of preventing vascular hardening. Over 60% of its fat is linoleic acid, and it also contains lecithin and vitamin E. It can lower serum cholesterol, prevent and treat high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis, prevent the decline of brain cells, help with vasodilation, and maintain normal heart function.
3. Buckwheat: Buckwheat contains rutin, chlorophyll, bitter substances, buckwheat alkali, and flavonoids. Rutin has the effect of lowering blood lipids and blood pressure. Flavonoids can strengthen and regulate myocardial function, increase coronary blood flow, and prevent arrhythmia.
4. Soybeans and Peanuts: Soybeans and soy products contain saponin fiber, which can reduce cholesterol in the body. Peanuts contain various amino acids and unsaturated fatty acids. Regular consumption can prevent coronary sclerosis.
5. Onions: Onions contain ingredients that stimulate fibrinolytic activity, which can dilate blood vessels, reduce resistance in peripheral blood vessels and the coronary arteries, and counteract vasoconstrictive substances like catecholamines in the body, as well as promote sodium excretion. Experiments have shown that for patients with coronary heart disease, consuming 100 grams of onions daily has a good effect on lowering blood lipids.
6. Ginger: Ginger mainly contains ginger oil, and its active ingredients in ginger oil are oleoresin and cholic acid chelates, which can prevent the absorption of cholesterol and increase its excretion. Gingerol, gingerene, ginger turpentine, and gingerol in ginger can promote blood circulation.
7. Garlic: Garlic contains garlic essential oil, which contains a mixture of sulfur compounds that have a significant lipid-lowering effect on high blood lipids. Garlic also has detoxifying functions. Daily consumption is very beneficial; in addition to its anti-inflammatory and detoxifying effects, it also has the function of preventing cancer.
8. Sweet Potato: Sweet potatoes are rich in carbohydrates, vitamin C, and carotene, and can provide a large amount of mucopolysaccharides and collagen substances. These substances can effectively maintain the elasticity of human arterial blood vessels, keep the joint cavity lubricated, and prevent the atrophy of connective tissue in the kidneys. Regular consumption of sweet potatoes can prevent fat deposition and arteriosclerosis.
9. Eggplant: Eggplant is rich in vitamins, and purple eggplant also contains vitamin PP. Regular consumption of eggplant can prevent an increase in cholesterol. The fiber in eggplant contains saponin, which can increase the elasticity of capillaries.
10. Carrot: Carrots are rich in carotene and various nutrients. Experiments have shown that they can increase coronary blood flow, lower blood lipids, and promote the synthesis of adrenaline, thereby having effects such as lowering blood pressure and strengthening the heart.
11. Celery: Celery mainly contains volatile oils, mannitol, etc., and has effects such as lowering blood pressure, sedation, strengthening the stomach, and diuresis.
12. Chives: Chives are rich in dietary fiber, volatile essential oils, and sulfur-containing compounds, which can promote intestinal peristalsis, reduce cholesterol absorption, and have the effect of lowering blood lipids.
13. Mushrooms and Edible Fungi: Edible fungi like mushrooms are rich in protein, low in fat, and contain no cholesterol, and have a significant effect on lowering lipids and blood pressure. Black fungus can prevent thrombosis, arteriosclerosis, and coronary heart disease.
14. Algae: Kelp, seaweed, jellyfish, and agar are all rich in minerals and various vitamins. In particular, alginates have a blood pressure-lowering effect; and starch sulfates have a lipid-lowering function.
15. Hawthorn: Hawthorn contains triterpenoid flavonoids, hypericin, and other ingredients. It has the effect of lowering serum cholesterol and blood pressure, as well as dilating blood vessels, promoting ciliary movement of the trachea, and expelling phlegm to relieve asthma.
16. Tea: Regular tea drinking can strengthen the toughness of capillaries, promote thyroid function, lower serum cholesterol concentration, adjust the ratio of cholesterol to phospholipids, and can prevent arteriosclerosis, enhance heart contraction, increase heart rate, and improve myocardial function.