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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
footnotes