NutritionalUpdates.com
NutritionalUpdates.com
|
|
Nutrition for Emphysema Dietary Principles:
* Maintain a moderately low fat diet.
* Reduce low sugar.
* Eat a lot of high complex whole carbohydrates.
* Do not exceed 12-15% protein in your diet.
* Go on a vegetarian cleansing diet or short fasts.
* Eat plenty of foods rich in Vitamins A and E; yellow vegetables.
Therapeutic Foods:
Garlic, onions, leeks, turnips, grapes, pineapple, honey, and green leafy vegetables
Fresh Juices: (Try each one until you find a juice that benefits you.)
Carrot Carrot, parsnip, potato, and watercress
Foods to Avoid:
Avoid any food that produces an intolerance, cow's milk and other dairy products, white bread, sugar and sweets, refined, processed, or catarrh-forming foods: oranges, tofu, tomatoes; meat, ice cream, shellfish
Specific Supplements:
Lecithin - 400 mg. 3 x day
Vitamin E - 400 I.U. a day
Vitamin A - 50,000 I.U. a day
Chelated Zinc - 30 mg. 2 x day
Vitamin C - 3 grams a day
Flaxseed oil - 2 Tbsp. a day
Chelated Copper - 15 mg. a day
|
|
|
