Dietary management for constipation involves eating a high-fiber diet with foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and pulses while avoiding very spicy foods, excess alcohol, tea, and coffee. A sample diet includes items for each meal and snacks like bread, dosa, pomegranate, soup, rice, sambar, curd, poha, and milk which provide fiber and fluids. Foods high in fiber are advantageous as they reduce cholesterol, control blood sugar, lower heart disease risk, aid weight loss, and reduce hemorrhoids.

1. Dietary management for Constipation
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2. Dietary management for constipation
Principle of diet:
• Normal carbohydrates, adequate proteins, low or restricted fat, high
fiber, normal vitamins and minerals, excess of fluids should be taken.
• Coarse bran can be taken as breakfast cereal.
• High fiber diet should be given which should include whole cereals,
fiber rich vegetables and fruits.

3. Foods to be included:
• Carrots, apple, oranges, guava, pomegranate, cabbage, ladies finger,
brinjal, peas, beans, kovai, bitter guard, whole grains, bread, rice,
pulses, fruit juices, soups, etc.

4. Foods to be avoided:
• Very spicy foods, tea, coffee, excess of alcohol, all this causes irritation
to the colon so they should be avoided.
• Use of laxatives should be avoided as they may lead to excess loss of
sodium and potassium.

5. Correction of faulty habits:
• Worry, anxiety, fatigue and change in life style may cause stress which in
turn leads to constipation. Hence stress should be avoided. They should
take more exercises.

6. Sample diet for Constipation
Timings Menu Servings
Early morning Tea
Bread
1 cup
2 slices
Breakfast Vegetable dosa
Lemon juice
3 no.’s
1 glass
Mid morning pomegranate
Vegetable soup
1 no.
1 bowl
Lunch Rice
Rasam
Cluster beans curry
Curd
2 katori
1 katori
1 katori
1 cup

7. Timings Menu Servings
Tea time Coffee
Poha
1 cup
1 serving
Dinner Rice
Sambar
Kovai curry
Butter milk
Vegetable salad
2 katori
1 katori
1 katori
1 cup
1 serving
Bed time Skimmed milk 1 glass

8. Advantages of fiber:
• Reduces the cholesterol.
• It controls blood sugar levels.
• Lowers the risk of heart diseases.
• Weight loss and management.
• Lowers risk of hemorrhoids.

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