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Your best anti afib menu?

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Everyone is different but this menu keeps me out of afib and being also low foodmap is healing my IBS

A large spoon of ghee

Raspberries

Carrots (grated in summer and mashed in winter) with olive oil

Sweat potatoes (boiled)

Light boiled eggs

Sardines (few times a week)

Avocados (with lemon and Himalayan salt)

Kale or cabbage

About 10 half walnuts

About 10 half pecan nuts

Dark chocolate

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sassy59

Sounds good to me. I would happily eat most of your menu. I’d certainly give anything a try once.

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Sustainedvtach270 in reply tosassy59

Thanks Sassy! I forgot to mention fried pan spinach

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sassy59 in reply toSustainedvtach270

👍

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Jalia

I was reading this and thought you meant mixing it all together as a recipe and then thought.....sardines and chocolate 🤢🤔

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Sustainedvtach270 in reply toJalia

Jalia, you are right, I am not mixing it!

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jeanjeannie50

Thats very interesting, Thank you for sharing.

You are welcome Jean! This forum helped me so much. Food seems to be the main afib trigger for many of us.

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Autumn_Leaves

I was eating all of those foods regularly (except ghee) long before I developed AF … but we should all support our health as much as we can, and there’s nothing wrong with any of those foods.

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secondtry

Simple food not processed all good, even better if organic and travel miles are reduced.

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JOY2THEWORLD49

Hi

Well sound good but that is not your full menu I think.

Please change Himalayan salt to IODISED SALT. Daughter included it

and has got 32 cysts on her thyroid. Non cancerous but looking at a throidectomy in future.

Add 2 Brazil nuts.

Seeds, Pumpkin and sunflower.

Also 6 cashew and 6 hard oval nuts?

Include grated beetroot with your carrot.

A suggestion include bananas and blue berries

cheers JOY. 73. (NZ)

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Sustainedvtach270 in reply toJOY2THEWORLD49

Hi Joy. I also get Brazil nuts, it is just not sold in stores here, I have to get them online. And I stayed away from cashew nuts because they are a high foodmap, which means not advised for IBS. That is my full menu

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JOY2THEWORLD49 in reply toSustainedvtach270

Hi

Really full menu!

Mine I start with Imported, Organic Oats by Harraway and add a kiwifuit, or pear, apple. Banana with pills if food reqired.

Lunch I try and include egg. But soup, or out pie or lamb,pumpkin,kumara combo with a little gravy.

Dinner or lunch slow cook meat/or fresh cooked salmon, sardines. Make turkish pizza with my flling, pesta, chickpea, lentlls, beans potato or kumara.

In between nuts, seeds, thin slice of cheese on wheatgrain Arnotts, Avo on toast. Subway give Avo and grated cheese on wheatgrain 1/2 roll.

Even black bean is interesting as beans or marinate.

Please dont make food boring.

Drinks, water, coffee x 1, cocoa, green tea, McCoys dark grape, blueberry smoothie.

cheri. JOY. 73. (NZ)

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Sustainedvtach270 in reply toJOY2THEWORLD49

Hello Hoy. Thank you for mentioning the importance of iodized salt. I also like kiwi fruits. I find the blueberries too sweat like the dates.

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Sustainedvtach270 in reply toSustainedvtach270

Sorry for misspelling your name

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JOY2THEWORLD49 in reply toSustainedvtach270

Hi

Blueberries got frost this year so price will go up and up!

The smoothie has blueberries which are a anti-oxyidemt.

I find cranberries too sweet. Funny how the taste bud works.

Nake sure you eat your dark 80% chocolate before 2pm!

cheri. JOY

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MarkS

Most of that looks good. I would be very cautious of the ghee however. Ghee is pure, mainly saturated, fat and contains a lot of oxidised cholesterol. That is linked to atherosclerosis.

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RG72 in reply toMarkS

I was thinking the same. Most looks good, but the ghee is not great for heart health at all. Imagine a large spoon of lard!

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Sustainedvtach270 in reply toMarkS

Hello Mark. Ghee helps me to digest but might not be good for everyone.

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Tryfan

I'd exchange to olive oil for ghee.

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Mugsy15

Is 'foodmap' a thing, or is that just a typo for Fodmap? (Genuine question, not spelling police)

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Sustainedvtach270 in reply toMugsy15

Mugsy, foodmap indicates if a food is IBS friendly.

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Mugsy15 in reply toSustainedvtach270

Ah I see.

I'm an IBS sufferer and am familiar with the Fodmap diet. I'm sure that's what you mean.

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riffjack846

Over countless years of searching for my food triggers I've found I can pretty much eat anything that doesn't contain artificial sweeteners, Gatorade type drinks, and heavily pickled or vinegar things.

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Sustainedvtach270 in reply toriffjack846

Hi Jack. thank you for sharing your food triggers!

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Peacefulneedshelp in reply toriffjack846

A question? It is not to argue with you at all. Out of curiosity I am wondering what it is with vinegar that triggers you? It is the acid?

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riffjack846 in reply toPeacefulneedshelp

I'm really not sure but I used to always get PVC's after eating things like pickled peppers, salad with Italian Dressing, cocktail onions, etc. The more vinegar the worse the afib episode. Course, this is just me, but....thought I'd throw it out there.

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Threecats in reply toriffjack846

It’s not just you Riffjack! I, too, can’t take vinegar for the same reason. My understanding is that it’s due to the histamine it contains ( think vinegar also causes the body to produce histamine too) . Foods high in histamine are a trigger for me. Sadly, that includes strong cheddar which I used to love🙄

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riffjack846 in reply toThreecats

Histimine. Huh. I wonder if taking an antihistimine would counter the effects of histimine in foods. Might be a double edged sword though, cause antihistimines cause PVC's in some folks. Something to ponder.

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Threecats in reply toriffjack846

Think I’d prefer to avoid them personally but I imagine it might work.

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AussieHeart

Great list and similar to a Mediterranean diet which is held up as the poster diet for all things healthy. Only Ghee would be in doubt perhaps for many heart patients as “potential adverse effects of ghee include increased LDL (bad) cholesterol levels and the formation of oxidized cholesterol during its production”. My cholesterol is 5.2 and my LDL is 2.8 so GP said get it down to 2.0 based on my BMI. I must make more cholesterol than the average Koala bear so ghee is out for me. PS: Monash University in Australia just released its FODMAP cookbook. It’s taking pre-orders online now. Exciting :-)

Hi Aussie, a foodmap cookbook that is great! Being really slim since I became a gluten free, vegetarian, I am not too concerned about ghee.

For me its chemicals in the food like many of you keep my diet simple. I also deal with low blood sugar, so I do need protein. I am very wary of eating out as I don’t know what they put in the food or sauces.

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Sustainedvtach270 in reply toPeacefulneedshelp

Hi Peace. Same I do not like to eat out and I won't even let my wife cook for me!

I’ve been going more low FODMAP lately. Big thing I do daily : breakfast is oatmeal with chia seeds and/or linseed and a little maple syrup, sometimes add some other goodies like dark chocolate chips or dried low FODMAP fruits. The seeds help keep me regular!

I occasionally have coconut water if I think my potassium intake is lacking, but I have to be careful with it. A huge problem for me is sorbitol which coconut water has a small amount of! Avocados I love but I have to limit those as well because of sorbitol. Really ANY sugars that end in -ol are a no go for me. They seem to digest slowly and to ferment in my digestive system and cause ridiculous amounts of gas.

I also eat small meals always. An odd thing I’ve figured out is if I eat a small snack, like a small bowl of low FODMAP cereal (like rice crispies), or gluten free peanut butter crackers, around 3 hours before bed time, it seems to help my dinner move along and digest better so I have less nocturnal digestive upset. I was often waking up with a racing heart due to gas in my system from slow digestion prior to doing this. Basically all of my issues occur in the evening and overnight hours.

I’ve also started drinking a tea of motherwort, hawthorn berry, hibiscus and ginger after dinner, a mix which I personalized for my needs. It has a nice relaxing effect and seems to be helping me. Motherwort is said to have some mild calcium channel blocking action. Ginger of course is good for the tummy too.

I take a few supplements like magnesium taurate and cranberry extract as well. I do try to get magnesium from food sources too, I always have pumpkin seeds on hand.

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Sustainedvtach270 in reply to

Hi Aoxo. I also like to put ginger with hot water. But I don't get magnesium or potassium supplement, I only get both with the food.

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minidoxie in reply to

i also drink 1 cup of hibicus tea. it is supposed to lower heart rate & blood pressure

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Dr-Gohan

I agree with mostly everything on your menu and would add that with green leafy vegetables I sometimes wash them like Kale,Chard, and mustard greens, then chop them up so they fill a large tea mug.

Add boiling water and a tea spoon of Balsamic Vinegar let sit for 3 minutes to five minutes. Sounds complicated and isn't.

Anyway, my doctor has instructed me to avoid oil, and use the vinegar because it aids the digestive process

I was surprised at how easily I can consume the whole mess eating the greens and sipping the water to the bottom

Thanks for your post. I found for me stress plus salt and oils is a trigger for AFib

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Sustainedvtach270 in reply toDr-Gohan

Thank you Dr Gohan, I will try your recipe with...olive oil though. I especially enjoy kale from my vegetable garden! Stress is also one of my triggers 🥶, I have been working on it for a long time but it is a perpetual ongoing project...

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