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Constipation diet
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.
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Constipation diet
- 1. Dietary management forConstipation www.plus100years.com
- 2. Dietary management forconstipation 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 beincluded: • 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 beavoided: • 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 faultyhabits: • 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 forConstipation 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 Teatime 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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