What food should a person take after angioplasty?

Question

My husband underwent angioplasty 15 days back, i want to know a perfect diet plan for him, what to take & what to avoid , pl help.

Answer 1

There is a great article on WebMd which tells you what to eat and what to do and not do after a angioplasty.

http://www.webmd.com/content/article/42/...

Answer 2

This is not an easy question to answer in this small space. The biggest problem he faces is to look at what caused the initial problem leading up to why the angioplasty was necessary in the first place. People in the medical and drug industry would have you believe so much misinformation it's frightening. Their discussions of LDL and HDL cholesterol, for instance, is way off track of solving the problem. They claim that foods containing cholesterol are bad for you and to avoid them. They tell you to avoid saturated fats, eat low salt, not eat egg yolks, etc.

Inflammation is the problem and cholesterol is doing what it is designed to do, to repair the body. To limit it's production and ignore the "root cause" is to sentence a person to somewhat solve an issue by reducing the hardening of the arteries issue, but creating many, many other problems for the person. This does generate huge money for drug companies while creating many problems for the person.

Cholesterol is not bad and it is an alcohol designed to bind with fatty acids and to transport these necessary fatty acids throughout the body. Blood is made of water and does not mix with oil. The cholesterol is necessary as the "transporter." LDL is a lipid protein found in muscle tissue primarily, not fat. This takes the fatty acids to the damaged areas of the body as part of the natural healing process. The HDL protein takes the spent LDL cholesterol back to the liver to be "reconjugated" or reprocessed to be used again! Do you actually believe that this bodily process is not designed correctly and that we should change it? That is exactly what the drug companies making things like Lipitor would have you believe.

Infection is the guilty party, not cholesterol. To avoid saturated fats is just plain stupid and people promoting this insanity do not understand fats and oils and how the body works. The saturated fat myth was started by the ego maniac, Ancel Keys, that generated a book and the lipid hypothesis based on a clever manipulation of his own data. Like many so called "scientific studies" with an agenda, it has become dogma. Your brain is made up mostly of saturated fat, your heart uses saturated fat as energy to run, your body converts unused proteins from your diet into saturated fats to be used for energy. Egg yolks contain all the minerals, vitamins, cholesterol, and 1/2 the protein mix, while the "whites" contain only 1/2 the proteins. The medical people would have you believe that you should not eat the yolks because it contains cholesterol. If you do this, you can become deficient in the proteins because of the imbalance due to not getting the complete protein provided in the egg. Additionally, if you do not get cholesterol in your diet, your body simply attempts to make more to compensate for this deficiency. Your liver makes 85% of the cholesterol in your body and only 15% comes from diet. If you eat more, it makes less and if you eat less, it makes more. Your body is very smart.

The so called "food experts" that are nothing more than "hired guns" of the food industry promoting the insanity that is driving Americans toward sickness the world has never seen before. They tell you NOT to eat butter; eat margarine. Stay away from trans fats (which is a good idea that has been around for more than 60 years), but eat vegetable oils. Butter and Coconut oil are medium chain fatty acids that do not require bile to break them down and are excellent sources of sustained energy and are digested quickly. The butyric acid found in butter nourishes the large intestines. The lauric acid found in coconut oil nourishes the thyroid. These are very stable oils that do not go rancid (oxidize) easily. Butter made from raw cream from grass fed cows is one of the best foods you can eat. Margarine on the other hand is man made from soybeans or canola. These very unstable, weak double bond oils are typically rancid when you buy them. They put chemicals in them to mask the odors. Most of them are hydrogenated. This process is done to make the oils keep from going rancid as fast, but this is to make your body believe it is good saturated fat, but it ends up causing INFLAMMATION in your body.

They tell you not to eat salt. That is just plain stupid, again. They should be telling you NOT to eat Morton table salt and the like that you buy in the Mausoleums where dead food is held in state (super markets that are really not super at all). There is NO scientific data that shows that salt causes high blood pressure. You need the salt desperately! In fact, it is salt that helps your body make stomach acid that is used by the body to sanitize the food you eat! Since we make less and less stomach acid as we age, it becomes more important to eat salt, not less. To be properly hydrated a person should consume 1/4 tsp. of salt per quart of water they drink. The salt should be the good "Air Dried Sea Salt" that contains electrolytes and NO chemicals. "When it rains, i

Answer 3

Low calorie food, of course. He should feel still hungry when he stops eating. And that should be the case for another 2 or 3 months. Then, consult the doctor about future course of action.