The so-called reasonable diet includes two meanings: first, the dietary measures taken should not only achieve the purpose of lowering blood fat, but also make patients get enough nutrition supply to ensure their health. The one-sided vegetarian diet or "three noes" (no meat, no eggs and no fish) is absolutely unacceptable. Secondly, diet therapy should be different according to different types of hyperlipidemia, and it should also vary from person to person. We should not copy mechanically, let alone hearsay.

Here is a brief introduction to the diet treatment of different types of hyperlipidemia:

(1) For patients with hypercholesterolemia and normal triglyceride content, the focus of diet therapy is to limit food cholesterol, and the total daily intake is less than 200mg. Patients should avoid or eat less foods with high cholesterol, such as brain, spinal cord, viscera, egg yolk (each egg yolk contains 250 ~ 300mg of cholesterol), shellfish (such as mussels and snails) and mollusks (such as squid, cuttlefish and fish eggs). On the other hand, patients should take in nutrients with low cholesterol, such as lean pork, beef, duck, chicken, fish and milk. The cholesterol content of these foods is not high, for example, each bottle of milk only contains 30mg, and other foods only contain about 100mg of cholesterol. Don't avoid eating too much. Secondly, it is necessary to limit animal fat and appropriately increase vegetable oil. The calculation shows that it is ideal for each patient to eat 500~750g vegetable oil (soybean oil, corn oil, vegetable oil, etc.) if animal oil is not used for cooking. ) every month. Although vegetable oil is good, it should not be eaten more, otherwise it will also bring bad effects. Third, eat more fruits and vegetables and increase fiber intake. Fourth, eat more cholesterol-lowering foods, such as soybeans and their products, onions, garlic, cauliflower (grass head), mushrooms, fungus and so on. Some of these foods also have anticoagulant effect, which is also good for preventing thrombosis and coronary heart disease.

(2) Hypertriglyceridemia For patients with only elevated blood triglyceride content and normal cholesterol content, the key points of diet treatment are different from the above. The key is to limit food intake and lose weight, so that the weight can reach and be maintained within the standard range. The standard weight can be calculated by the following formula:

Male: Height (cm)-105 (kg)

Female: Height (cm)-107.5 (kg)

The second is to limit sweets. These patients are particularly sensitive to sugar, and eating sugar will make their triglyceride content higher. Therefore, white sugar, brown sugar, fruit candy, honey and sugary foods and medicines should be eaten as little as possible or not. Third, prohibition of alcohol, alcohol can increase the triglyceride content of such patients. Fourth, protein, especially soybean protein, should be appropriately increased. Fifth, properly limit cholesterol, below 300mg per day, allowing patients to eat 3 eggs per week, and other foods containing cholesterol can also be eaten properly, as long as the total intake is not higher than the above limit. Sixth, properly limit fat, especially animal fat.

(3) The content of blood cholesterol and triglyceride in patients with mixed hyperlipidemia is increased, and the focus of diet therapy is to combine the above two types. That is, properly limit cholesterol and animal fat, control food intake to lose weight, avoid eating sweets, abstain from alcohol, appropriately increase vegetable oil, beans and their products, and eat more vegetables, fruits and some foods with lipid-lowering effect. Eat more chicken and jellyfish. Eating as many cellulose-rich vegetables as possible can reduce the absorption of cholesterol in the intestine. Onion, garlic, fungus, hawthorn and mushroom all have good lipid-lowering effects, and vegetable oil is the best oil for cooking. Limit patients' dietary calories, eat less sweets, strengthen exercise, increase consumption, quit smoking and drinking, avoid excessive tension and live a regular life. Choosing lipid-lowering drugs such as Maitong, Yishouning and Evening Primrose Oil Pill and drinking Alisma Decoction (Alisma orientalis 10g, dried lotus leaf) at ordinary times can not only maintain good curative effect, but also reduce the risk of inducing other diseases.