Brief Answer:
need further details

Detailed Answer:
Dear
Thanks for contacting Ayurveda with your health concern and after reviewing your case history do let me know about following for further line of management:

1. Do let me know about your weight so that your BMI [body mass index can be calculated] whether obese/overweight?
2. Is you lifestyle active or sedentary?
3. do let me know about the lipid profile value [if possible please upload the same in reports section]
4. Did Cardiologist advised for any other investigation?

FOR HIGH CHOLESTEROL

- DIETARY AND LIFESTYLE CHANGES [even if your weight is normal do follow the same]

i. There is a limit to how much one can exercise every day. An average (non athlete) person cannot run or exercise vigorously for more than 30 minutes i.e. you cannot burn more than 300 calories through EXERCISE everyday! So it is important to control the tongue, along with whatever exercise you do:
½ hour of walking burn 130 calories
½ hour of jogging/running burn 300-350 calories
½ hour of swimming burn 250 calories
½ hour of cycling burn 150 calories
½ hour of aerobic exercise burn 250 calories
½ hour of light exercise like writing/driving burn 50 calories
i.e. if you don’t exercise you consume about 2000-2500 calories per day. To this you Add any of the above exercise protocol to consume more calories, and keep your calorie consumption below 2000 per day and you will be losing weight

ii. Tips on Eating: Starvation is not the right way to loose weight. Take the right type of diet and eat heartily:

- AVOID:
.sedentary lifestyle, day time sleeping after meals, newly harvested rice, curd, butter, ghee, cheese, cream, chocolates, cakes, pastries, ice-creams, XXXXXXX
. oils should be reduced to minimum, avoid deep fried foods like puries,bhujees, potato chips.
.avoid potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets, yam, nuts, fruits with sweet pulp like XXXXXXX chickoos, bananas and grapes.
. Avoid processed and tinned foods, opt for fresh foods
. Drinking cold water after exercise.
. Eliminate all cold food and drink; you should eat nothing that is refrigerator cold.

- WHAT TO EAT:
.start the meal with large bowl of thin soup, followed by good volume of salads prepared with green vegetables (cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, cucumber, sprouted pulses). This will prevent you from taking extra servings of the meals. Drink plenty of water and diluted buttermilk.
.Avoid rice, take roti or phulka,without oil or ghee.The bhaji servings should be prepared from green leafy vegetables,onions,cauliflower’s,lady’s finger,radish, turnips, mushrooms, sprouted pulses. Oil may be substituted by gravy of tomato, onion, garlic, and ginger, in the curry or bhaji for taste.
. For morning and evening snacks, take recommended fruits, vegetables and low fat (skimmed) milk, black tea without sugar has negligible calories.
. Carbohydrates: fat requires carbohydrates to burn, so take them in moderation like grains.

Do revert back with your concerns so that the treatment can be decided accordingly.

Dr. Munish Sood
Consultant Physician
Naimittika

you can consult me directly on: bit.ly/drmunishsood

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Brief Answer:
further line of treatment and management

Detailed Answer:
Dear
Thanks for reverting back
1. Calculating your weight to height ratio the BMI comes to be 25 which put you into overweight category.
2. Since lifestyle is mixed do incorporate earlier dietary regime and lifestyle management in your daily routine and check with blood sugar, thyroid profile also.
3 & 4. Report is pointing towards dyslipidemia thus the treatment will be a five step approach:

a. Exercise: brisk walk for 45 minutes every day, (walking is the best)
. Yogasanas and Pranayama (avoid complicated one)

b. Stress Management: Meditation for 15 minutes everyday, i.e. think positive about own health and life.

c. Low Fat Diet:
. Less than 10% of the day's calorie intake should be from fats (unsaturated fats)
. No to cholesterol rich food items: butter, ghee, cheese,skimmed milk,saturated oils, deep fried foods,yellow of meat,alcohol, caffeine,tobacco.
. Take: more of soups, plenty of salads, sprouted pulses,more of Bhajis, skimmed milk, onion, garlic,soy bean,apple, curd of skimmed milk, limited use of monounsaturated oils and increase the fibre intake.

d. Elimination of known risk factors:
. Stop Smoking
. Weight Reduction is ideal
. Control Diabetes
. Avoid Mental strains

e. Drugs
i. Tablet Abana : 2 tablets twice daily till the lipid levels are normalized, followed by 1 tablet twice daily as maintenance dose
PS. It is advisable to take abana under medical supervision if the pre existing medical condition is long standing and refractory to other modern medicine
ii. Capsule Evilled: 1 capsule twice daily
iii. Arjunarishta: 20 ml twice daily with equal amount of water [after meals]
iv. Trifla Churan: 3 gm with lukewarm water [at bedtime]
v. Capsule Optiheart: 1 capsule twice a day
PS. ii & v medicine won’t be available there so I can send you these by courier [if interested] since all are result oriented medicine[s]
5. Do the required investigations and follow up them with your cardiologist.

Dr. Munish
Naimittika

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