Tet holiday avoids falling ill with the weak heart

People with heart disease should limit banh chung, sausage, sausage, jam, alcoholic drinks . Tet days.

On Tet holiday, people are less active, often eat at the wrong time, use diverse foods, mainly fish meat, few vegetables, alcohol consumption also surpasses normal days. This causes many health risks, especially cardiovascular disease.

Note in eating and drinking Tet for people with heart disease

• The type of jam cake has high sugar content , easy to cause hyperglycemia, especially cardiovascular patients with diabetes need to minimize.
• Banh chung, banh tet contains a lot of starch, often served with pickles and fish sauce with high salt content, can make the hypertension worse, so it should be limited.
• The type of spring rolls, patties also have a lot of protein, fat and saturated fatty acids, contributing to the increase of dyslipidemia, need less use.
• Dry foods such as sausages contain a lot of fat and salt, so they are limited to avoid aggravating hypertension and dyslipidemia.

Food on Tet holiday often has a lot of energy, damaging cardiovascular health.(Artwork: anhson).

New Year also makes many people gain weight, affect body mass index, progress directly to cardiovascular condition. In order to avoid weight gain, it is necessary to limit the consumption of multiple meals or eat more when you are full, eat too much energy-rich foods. Add fiber-rich foods like vegetables, fruits.

Consuming a lot of alcoholic drinks such as beer, wine . when absorbed into the blood can cause tachycardia, hypertension. This seriously affects the heart's oxygen demand and the level of blood flow to the heart muscle. Alcohol is also directly toxic to the heart muscle, leading to cardiomyopathy and a potential factor for heart rhythm disorders.

Alcoholic drinks also affect the brain, making the information transmitted in the brain slower than normal, causing the cortex to no longer control the activity of the centers under the shell. From that cause negative actions in drinkers such as staggering, slow reaction and loss of control of behavior. Alcohol is also harmful to the liver, most heavily causing alcoholic acute hepatitis or acute pancreatitis. Any of these conditions can affect the heart of the patient, who has not been adequately perfused like normal people.

Patients with coronary artery disease who either intervened with stents or had coronary artery bypass surgery also need to adhere to a diet consulted by a physician. Remembering coronary artery disease is a progressive disease, surgery or stenting is only to reperfect the heart muscle area with anemia and not return the coronary artery to normal. The coronary artery will continue to narrow, the speed will be fast or slow depending on the patient's adherence to treatment.