Hi
After being in touch with a few of yourselves and asking questions things seam a little clearer
I understand alcohol is a big no no !!
Diet wise can anyone recommend what to avoid or give ideas of what to eat healthy
Do you have a link, can you use protein shakes during the the day ?
Any advise would be welcome
Thanks
Andy
The simplest advice I know is ‘Eat food, not too much, mostly plants’. It is a good idea to find out how to gauge recommended portions, sometimes they are surprisingly small. Also, to go into full Biden family mode, ‘A little of what you fancy does you good’, emphasis being on little, because if you try to be too strict you are likely to give up. What to (usually) avoid is processed, salty, sugary, fatty food, excess alcohol particularly on a single occasion and anything that noticeably upsets your digestive system. Some people experiment with reducing gluten or lactose (a gluten free or lactose free diet requires tests and medical guidance).
Hope that helps 💜
Look at the books by Dr Rupy 'the doctors kitchen', rule of thumb if it's in a packet it's generally rubbish, fresh organic food if you can, mostly plant based, a little fish, avoid red meat especially if processed ! Try and eat about 10 portions of fruit and veg a day, five a day is ok but 10 is much better !
Andy
Small meals and early in the evening. Start a new hobby 'finding real food'.
Kaz747Do you have any recommendations we’re to look for what foods to eat or easy recipes
Andy
Hi Andy - I have an app on m phone called recipe keeper where so save recipes. Anything I see online that looks interesting at save to that. I listen to a lot of podcasts and follow reputable people on social media that share interesting recipes.
As the other Andy said, check out these podcasts (they all have written books as well) - The Doctors Kitchen- Dr Rupy Aujla; Feel Better Live More - Dr Rangan Chatterjee, The Food Medic - Dr Hazel Wallace.
Another good book to check out is A Fat Lot of Good by Dr Peter Brukner, a leading Australian Sports Medicine Doctor.
Keto modified to suit me. This guy has interesting ideas on the issue of food and AF. I've more than halved my SVT events since I put his ideas into practice. carrafibdietinfo.com/
Interesting . However given that a woman of his age would be post menopausal it is possible that these low levels of calcium intake would not prevent osteoporosis. Also because of increased body fat women have more difficulty maintaining high vit D levels. I find if I lower my already modest calcium supplementation ( I eat only a small amount of dairy) I get noticeable lower back pain. He says he lives at around 32° latitude - sun all year round. It would be interesting to see if a vit D level of 65ng/ml could be maintained on that level of supplementation at much higher latitudes. I doubt it. 25,000iu a week is about 3,500iu a day. For a winter with no solar vit D available from mid Sept to mid April this amount is unlikely to maintain such a high level.
I've had pretty good results lately in reducing my afib episodes by increasing my intake of foods rich in magnesium and potassium. Could be a coincidence but it's working so far. I had an appointment last week with the nurse practitioner at my EPs office. She asked what I was doing differently since my episodes have decreased (this was verified by my pacemaker). I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this continues.
Also Andy, there’s another forum called Healthy Eating here on Health Unlocked where people share ideas and often recipes too. I post on there regularly.
There is a low carb healthy fat site as well (LCHF). I agree with your comments about white bread but If you dig around you might find a local baker who produces fresh wholemeal 'rustic' bread rolls, very tasty with olive oil either spread on top, or in a little dish to dip into, but they can be addictive.
More often than not We have a massive salad at lunch time, lots of raw veg, -beetroot, celery, carrots, hummus, spring onions, spinach , Rocket lettuce etc, get up feeling really full, but don't put weight on as we just have a light meal at eventide and usually eat a weekly pattern of 2 meat days, 2 fish days and 3 vegetarian days (mushroom tagliatelli, curries, 3 bean chillis, etc).
Another place to look at is at the diabetes.co.uk website, where they have lots of great recipes. When the local library opens up again they may have loads of cookbooks and the charity shops can contain some interesting books as well.
Good look with quest - looking at nutrition can be a complete can of fascinating worms.
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