Diet Plan For A Heart Patient

With heart disease, the patient’s anxiety increases. What to eat and what not to eat in case of heart disease, how to prevent the disease. Many such things start coming in the mind of the patient.

You must have seen that in Ayurveda doctors always advise heart patients to pay special attention to their diet, because many diseases related to heart are caused by not consuming nutritious diet and unhealthy lifestyle.

The diet plan for heart patients is given below.

Follow this diet plan to prevent heart diseases and also make yourself healthy.

What to Eat in Heart Disease?

It is necessary to consume these diets in heart diseases:-

• Grains: Old rice, wheat, barley.
• Lentils: Soyabean, peas, masoor dal, moong, tur, oats.
• Fruits and Vegetables: Gourd, Luffa, Parwal, Bitter gourd, Pumpkin, Tinda, Potato, Tomato, Lemon, Broccoli, Spinach, Grapes, Pomegranate, Turmeric, Fenugreek, Cumin, Green Coriander, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Garlic, Carrot, Apple, Cherry , Strawberry, Orange, Banana, Black Grapes, Apricots, Walnuts, Beans, Papaya, Capsicum, Cabbage, Guava, Pear.

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Avoid These in Cardiac Disorder

Do not consume these foods if you have heart disease:-

• Cereals: New Rice, Maida
• Lentils: Urad
• Fruits and vegetables: amaranth, bathua, water chestnut, arbi, jackfruit, brinjal, sweet potato.
• Others: Canned food, salt, used oil, ghee, waste food, late-digesting food, cold water, alcohol, non-vegetarian food, egg, pickle, fast food.
• Contraindicated diet: milk + fish.

Diet Plan for Heart Disease Prevention

In the morning, before Brushing teeth (without rinsing) drink 1-2 glasses of lukewarm water on an empty stomach and juice of either bottle-gourd, Amla or aloe vera juice before breakfast.

Along with this you have to follow these:-

Time balanced diet plan

Breakfast (8:30 AM) –

Herbal tea + 2-3 Biscuits / Lightly Salted Dalia / Poha / Upma (Semolina) / Cornflakes / 1-2 Thin Roti + 1 bowl Vegetable, 1 plate fruit salad (apple, papaya, guava, pear, cherry, strawberry, orange, banana, and black grape).

Meal of the day (12:30-01:30 PM) –

1-2 thin roti’s (Mixed grain flour) + 1 bowl of rice (non-fat) + 1 bowl of green vegetables (boiled) + 1 bowl of moong dal (thin) + 1 bowl plate salad.

Evening snack (5:30 – 6:00 Pm)

1 cup herbal tea + 2-3 biscuits / vegetable soup.

Dinner (7:00 – 8:00 Pm)

1-2 thin thin rotis + 1/2 bowl green vegetables (boiled) + 1 bowl moong dal (thin).

Before night (At least 30 minutes before bedtime) drink 1 glass of milk without cream and without sugar.

Diet for Heart Health

Others: Flaxseed, olive oil, yogurt, chocolate, walnuts, and skim milk can be consumed.

Read Also: Home Remedies for Heart Health

Advice for heart patients

• Only 1/2 teaspoon (rock salt) is to be eaten in 24 hours.
• You can take 1 teaspoon refined, mustard/groundnut oil in 24 hours.
• If the patient has a habit of tea, one cup of Herbal tea or Herbal Drink can be given in its place.

Lifestyle during Heart Disease

The lifestyle of a heart patient should be like this:-

Exercise

Heart patients should do some exercise, so that food can be digested properly and disease can be prevented.

Don’t stress and worry

Get 7-8 hours of sleep daily and keep your worries to a minimum.

Do not smoke

Do not consume smoking, as it directly affects the arteries of the heart.

SOME IMPORTANT TIPS

(1) Practice meditation and yoga daily.

(2) Eat fresh and light hot food.

(3) Eat food slowly in a quiet place peacefully, with a positive and happy mind.

(4) Eat three to four times a day.

(5) Do not leave food at any time and avoid excessive food.

(6) Fast once a week.

(7) Leave one third / one fourth part of the stomach blank.

(8) Chew the food properly and eat slowly.

(9) Walk for 3-5 minutes after taking food.

(10) Wake up [5:30 – 6:30 am] before sunrise.

(11) Brush your teeth twice daily.

(12) Live daily.

(13) Take a short walk after taking food.

(14) Sleep at the right time i.e. before 10pm at night.

(15) Do not eat undigested food.

(16) Do not exercise too much.

(17) Do not keep anger and sorrow in your mind.

(18) Cold environment is to be avoided. 

Yoga and Asana for Heart Disease

If you have heart disease, you can do these yoga, meditation and asanas:-

Yoga Pranayama and Meditation:

• Anulom Vilom
• Bhramari
• Udgeetha
• Pranav Japa

 Asanas:

• Paschimottanasana
• Bhujangasana
• Uttanpadasana
• Markatasana
• Gomukhasana
• Mandukasana
• Shashankasana