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Can hypertensive patients eat meat?

Can hypertensive patients eat meat? Hypertension patients are not suitable to eat more meat, and try not to eat fat meat. Because animal fat contains high saturated fatty acids and more cholesterol. It can raise blood pressure and damage vascular endothelial cells. The incidence rate of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is increased.

Experts point out that patients with hypertensive nephropathy can eat meat. But you can't eat fat meat, because eating fat meat will cause hypertension, hyperlipidemia and other diseases, which is undoubtedly worse for people with kidney disease. Patients with hypertensive nephropathy can eat lean meat and lean meat. It is also appropriate to eat fish and chicken to ensure the supply of nutrition. It is also helpful for the recovery of kidney. However, patients with hypertensive nephropathy should eat an appropriate amount of meat, and should not eat more. A large amount of protein added to patients with kidney disease will increase the burden on their kidneys. Therefore, patients with hypertensive nephropathy should not eat too much meat for their own health and kidney health.

Experts say that the daily protein intake per kilogram of body weight is 0.8g, that is, a person weighing 50kg can only consume 40g of protein per day. If you eat too much meat, it will increase the burden on the kidney and cause damage to the kidney.

Scientific experiments have found that people who eat the most protein have the greatest decline in glomerular filtration rate. A recent study by researchers showed that for women with mild renal dysfunction, eating too much meat in the diet will accelerate the decline of renal function.

In addition to limiting meat, patients with hypertensive nephropathy should also eat a low sugar diet, limit salt intake, eat an appropriate amount of protein, and eat more foods rich in potassium and calcium but low in sodium. These reasonable diets play a very important role in the rehabilitation of hypertensive nephropathy. Patients with hypertensive nephropathy must pay attention to their usual diet in order to better treat diseases and have a healthy body!