Cardiovascular disease is a general term for conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels. It’s usually associated with a build-up of fatty deposits inside the arteries (atherosclerosis) and an increased risk of blood clots. It can also be associated with damage to arteries in organs such as the brain, heart, kidneys, and eyes. Cardiovascular disease is one of the main causes of death and disability in the world, but it can often largely be prevented by leading a healthy lifestyle.
Dietitian Helps in Your Cardiovascular Disease
Having a healthy heart is heavily influenced by the lifestyles we lead. Whilst it is difficult to avoid all food and drink that are unhealthy for us, understanding why they are unhealthy and what the long-term effect of regular consumption will do is important so that we can make better choices to avoid increased cardiac related problems.
A balanced diet is always recommended that provides nutrition from each of the main food groups. Many ‘fad diets’ that may seem like they will help you be healthier may be having a detrimental effect on your cardiac nutrition.
Some examples of how our nutrition team of Cardiovascular Dietitians can be of benefit to you include:
• Optimizing cardiac nutritional status prior to surgical intervention and supporting healing, repair and recovery postoperatively
• Improving blood lipid profiles
• Improving tolerance to statin therapy
• Supporting blood pressure management
• Maintaining healthy blood vessels and balancing inflammatory processes
• Identifying and correcting nutritional deficiencies
• Weight management
• Improving blood sugar control
• Improving energy levels and reducing fatigue
• Improving sleep
• Alleviating the symptoms of restless leg syndrome
• Demystifying media messages
The 14 days Cardiovascular Diet Plan with recipes including breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner is carefully formulated with precise portion and caloric range calculated, all recommended foods are easy to buy and cook, and all nutrition factors.
Why 14 days?
It is planned as educational and trailer stage one, aim for your learning and settlement purposes, not too long not too short, the rationale and ingredients are introduced, it is time to allow rooms for modification and fine tuning.
Our Diet Plan is the same as you got from the Merlyn Health clinical nutritional preliminary consultation.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
What is Cardiovascular Disease? 1
Dietitian Help you in Your Cardiovascular Disease 2
