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cardiovascular system
rheumatic heart disease
nutrition

dietary guidelines

specific foods:
• foods that tonify the Heart
• flax seed oil, okra, hawthorn berries, millet, buckwheat, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, bananas, potatoes, asparagus, apples, honey in small amounts (Airola, p.101)

avoid:
• meat, alcohol, hot sauces, spicy foods, fried foods, fatty foods, rich foods, salty foods, coffee, caffeine, sweet foods and sugar, alcohol, cow's milk and other dairy products, white bread, refined foods, processed foods


supplements

• Vitamin E 90-150 IU (Gerras; Golant; Hanna, p. 417)
• taurine 500 mg per day
• Coenzyme Q10 10-50 mg per day
• L-carnitine 250 mg three times daily


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