Hypercholestremia is the term used for increased level of triglycerides in blood .
The condition is mainly lifestyle related .Therauptic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) play important role in dealing hypercholestremia.
TLC contains
1. Appropriate diet changes
2. Excersice
3. Medical intervention
Diet do’s
- Eat freshly cooked food.
- Eat in small quantity 4-5 times in a day.
- Make sure eat variety of food.
- Enough but not excess water to maintain fluid level,
- Drink unsweetened and freshly prepared juices
- Make sure you eat lunch and dinner on time.
- Breakfast should be between 8am -9am
- Breakfast should be heavy to fulfill calorie need
- Lunch should be between 12 to 1pm
- Light lunch to avoid fullness of stomach at workplace
- Evening snacks should b rich in micronutrients like fruits, juice,etc .
- Early light dinner with variety of soups, soft rice ,dal,buttermilk etc
- Lots of green, leafy vegetables properly cooked.
- Use lots of curry leaves, garlic, fenugreek seeds, dried ginger. While cooking
- Use green sprouted mung, carrots, cooked beet root for salad.
- Eat Amla in any form everyday.
- Seasonal fresh fruits
Diet don’ts
- Avoid eating at the fullest of stomach.
- Avoid eating too fast or standing.
- Don’t drink water just before your meal.
- Avoid hotel and street food.
Keep away from leftover, fried, preserved, salted, and ready to eat food
- Avoid plain flour food like pasta, pizza, white bread.
- Avoid Red beans, dry green beans, double bean, chole, rajma.
- Avoid all type of sweet from shops. Homemade sweet on few occasionas will do.
- Avoid Thick gravies, curries like in Punjabi food.
- Strictly avoid use of curd, milk while preparing curry or sabji
- Avoid Fermented food like dhokla, Idali, Dosa etc.
- Avoid heavy, greesy food at dinner
- Avoid frequent cheese and paneer
Recommended Foods
Group Recommended Foods
· Grains :
Whole grain breads and cereals, including oats and barley(javas), jawar , bajra, , nachani
Pasta, especially whole wheat or other whole grain types
Brown rice
- Pulses: Masur dal, mung dal, green mung dal, whole green mung
- Vegetables : pumpkin, bottle gourd ,bitter gourd , snake gourd ,cabbage, ladyfinger, spinach, lal math, brinjal are more beneficial
Fruits: Fresh, fig , apple, banana, pomegranate , chikku, pear, jamuns, amla etc
Food Group
Foods Not Recommended
Grains : High-fat bakery products, such as doughnuts, biscuits, croissants,
danish pastries, pies, cookies
Snacks made with partially hydrogenated oils, including chips,
cheese puffs, snack mixes, regular crackers, butter-flavored
popcorn
Vegetables : Fried vegetables
Vegetables prepared with butter, cheese, or cream sauce
Fruits : Fried fruits
Fruits served with butter or cream eg. Fruit salads, milk shakes
Whole milk yogurt or ice creams
Cream
Red meat, fried meat
2. Excersice :
· Brisk walking in early morning at least for 45 mins
· Suryanamskar is the ideal exercise for each and every oragan and body part.
· Yogasanas and breathing exercise like kapalbhati, pranayam etc
· Other exercises under guidance of expert and medical advise
3.Medical intervention:
In some cases apart from diet and exercises medicines and therapies are advised.
· Panchkarma therapy like vaman , virecha and lekhan basti
· Shirodhara for stress related conditions
· Ayurvedic medicine to enhance the digestion and absorption of nutrients to avoid the accumulation of lipids.
· Ayurvedic medicine to combat or to prevent the ailments due to hypercholestremia
· A very important part is counseling the patient to prepare him for the lifestyle change which is really very difficult to adapt
· Regular follow-ups to check on the progress
· Avoid sleeping at daytime after lunch
Dr. Ruapali Panase
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