Home Care: Diet Changes to Lower Risk of Heart Disease
President Lyndon B. Johnson established American Heart Month in 1963. The goal is to educate adults about cardiovascular diseases, including high blood pressure, stroke, and congestive heart failure. February’s American Heart Month is the perfect time to sit down and go over your family’s diet. Have you talked to your mom and her home care providers about the importance of diet when lowering the risk of heart disease?
Boost Her Fiber Intake
Home Care Malibu CA – Home Care: Diet Changes to Lower Risk of Heart Disease
Fiber is one of the essential nutrients, but many older adults fail to get enough. The dietary guideline for women over 51 is 22.4 grams of fiber each day. That’s almost six cups of cooked oatmeal.
Stock your mom’s cupboards and refrigerator with high-fiber foods like green peas (9 grams per cup), frozen raspberries (8 grams per cup), and black beans (15 grams per cup) to make sure your mom gets enough fiber. Other fiber-rich foods include chia seeds, lentils, old-fashioned oats, and broccoli.
Adding fiber into her daily diet doesn’t have to be as hard as you’d imagine. Your mom loves brownies. There are fantastic recipes that use pureed black beans, almond flour, cocoa powder, mashed banana, and maple syrup. Toss a handful of sprouted whole oats into her breakfast smoothie.
Read Nutrition Labels
The foods you might think are healthy can be lousy nutritional options. Your mom loves veggie burgers. They’re packed with vegetables, so that makes them healthy, right? Not necessarily.
The amount of sodium in a frozen veggie burger can be substantial. If you look at the nutrition labels, you’ll find brands with up to 25% of your daily value of sodium in one burger patty. Other brands add sugar to their recipes. It’s often healthier to make veggie burgers from scratch.
What If She Struggles With Meals and How Home Care Services can Assist
What do you do if your mom has a hard time shopping for healthier ingredients and cooking heart-healthy meals? She can’t slice and chop ingredients as well as she used to. Instead, your mom relies on canned soups, frozen pizzas, and microwavable meals. Her favorites are high in saturated fat, sugar, and sodium.
Have you taken a closer look at grocery shopping assistance and meal preparation services from a home care agency? Arrange for caregivers to take your mom to stores. She’ll have a caregiver with her to read how much salt and sugar are in the items she picks out.
Home care aides carry in groceries and put everything away. When it’s time for a meal, they’ll cook for your mom and make sure she has company while she eats. Call our home care agency to learn more.
Source: https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2017/02/21/12/42/the-evolution-of-american-heart-month#
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