How Common Patients Can Eat Healthily During the Chinese New Year
How Common Patients Can Eat Healthily During the Chinese New Year
Whose family doesn't have relatives and friends with health conditions? Even during the Chinese New Year, when everyone gathers, it's inevitable that these common patients who need care will be present. If you have people with various illnesses at your dining table, can you bring them warmth through your care? Well, let the experts give you some tips!
Hepatobiliary Patients
Appropriate protein, limited cholesterol
During the Chinese New Year, visiting relatives and friends naturally means a lot of delicious food. Fish, meat, poultry, eggs, and oil become the stars of the festival feast. Whether it's a family gathering at home or a party at a restaurant with friends, it's mostly these foods. Patients with hepatobiliary diseases need to use their diet to protect liver function, stimulate bile secretion, maintain normal intestinal activity, reduce fat and cholesterol metabolism, and promote liver function recovery.
The diet should include moderate amounts of chicken, fish, lean beef, lean pork, tofu, soy milk, etc.; provide sufficient easily digestible sugars, offer more high-starch foods, and appropriately increase sucrose, glucose, and honey; limit high-cholesterol foods, avoid frying, deep-frying, and stir-frying methods, and eat small, frequent meals.
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Three meals a day,七八分饱 (七八分饱 - about 70-80% full)
Patients with gastrointestinal diseases must have a regular diet. A regular diet helps the autonomic nervous system, which controls gastrointestinal motility and secretion, to function regularly. When diet is irregular—for example, meals are not on time or in consistent amounts, or skipping meals followed by overeating—it naturally disrupts the movement and secretion of the digestive tract, leading to corresponding gastrointestinal diseases. During the Chinese New Year, with all the eating and drinking, it's easy to overindulge, and combined with an irregular lifestyle, the incidence of gastrointestinal diseases is significantly higher than at other times. This can lead to gastroenteritis, peptic ulcers, acute pancreatitis, and other conditions.
Therefore, during the Chinese New Year holiday, one should stick to three meals a day, eating only about 70-80% full, eat fewer snacks, and absolutely avoid overeating. Many people get sick during the holiday season from drinking too much. Excessive alcohol can easily lead to gastric bleeding, stroke, pancreatitis attacks, and worsening of liver disease. Therefore, don't overindulge in alcohol during the holidays, and it's best to avoid strong liquors.
Diabetic Patients
Less oil and salt, take medicine on time
It's easiest for diabetics to lose control of their diet, and an uncontrolled diet is a major reason for worsening diabetes. How can diabetics control their diet during the festival and still have a healthy and happy holiday?
1. Avoid drinking alcohol, as it can interfere with the body's metabolism of sugar, fat, and protein, promote the development of acute and chronic diabetic complications, hinder the breakdown and excretion of diabetes medications, and easily cause hypoglycemia. 2. Diabetics should choose foods that are low in oil and salt and are light. 3. Don't eat more meat and less rice, because meat can also be converted into sugar in the body. Conversely, if you eat too little staple food daily, it can lead to hunger-induced ketosis. 4. Take your medication on time and eat your meals on time to avoid hypoglycemia.
Cardiovascular Patients
Less greasy food, don't overeat
During the festival, you'll encounter more greasy foods. Eating too much can raise blood lipids and make the blood thicker. After a large meal, the body needs to concentrate more blood for digestion, which can relatively reduce blood supply to the heart's arteries, leading to myocardial ischemia and hypoxia, which can trigger angina or a myocardial infarction. Don't overindulge in fine wine. "When meeting a bosom friend, a thousand cups of wine are not enough." For people with cardiovascular disease, during the holidays, they can drink some wine but should absolutely avoid strong liquor to avoid加重 the burden on the heart. At holiday family banquets, there are often delicious dishes. Elderly cardiovascular patients should mainly taste the food and must not overeat. Because the digestive ability of elderly cardiovascular patients is often poor and most have high blood lipids, to protect the cardiovascular system, the diet must be scientific and reasonable, preferably light, and eat more soy products and fresh vegetables and fruits.
Bronchial Asthma
Avoid alcohol and salt, eat small, frequent meals
Patients with bronchial asthma should avoid alcohol and overly salty foods. The stimulation from alcohol and salty foods can intensify bronchial reactions, worsen symptoms like coughing, wheezing, and palpitations, and trigger an asthma attack. They can eat more high-protein foods like lean meat, liver, eggs, poultry, soybeans, and soy products to increase calorie intake and improve disease resistance. People with poor digestive function should eat small, frequent meals and consume more foods rich in vitamins A, C, and calcium. Foods containing vitamin A have the effect of moistening the lungs and protecting the airways, such as pork liver, egg yolk, cod liver oil, carrots, chives, pumpkin, and apricots.