Renal patients can eat beans

Beijing Friendship Hospital nutrition director Hong Zhongxin

Source: Health News

        Over the years, folk has been spreading in nephrotic patients should not eat beans and bean products. The doctor also stressed that the decline of renal function to a certain extent, we should control of protein intake, try to choose high quality protein, such as animal meat, milk, eggs, do not eat soy beans, peanuts and other vegetable protein. The control of protein intake treating method, called the high quality low protein diet. Thus, it gradually formed a nephrotic patients do not eat legume food traditions. In recent years, the study found, soybean is rich in branched-chain amino acid for kidney disease, do no harm. Therefore, it is no longer advocated kidney patient strict fasting food legumes.

        Beans is a kind of plant foods, but the protein essential amino acids, the number and proportion are close to animal protein. Legume food with high protein content of 35% ~ 40%, the soybean protein is the best plant quality protein. Not only that, soybean is rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin B. Often eat legume food, which not only can improve dietary nutrients supply, but also can avoid the negative effects of too much meat. Because the beans food rich in protein content at the same time, cholesterol content is far less than the fish, meat, eggs, milk. And beans food rich in linoleic acid and phospholipid, can promote children's neurodevelopment. Linoleic acid and lower blood cholesterol, hypertension, coronary heart disease, prevent arteriosclerosis and other good food.

        Patients with nephropathy diet principle is to control the total amount of protein intake, and animal protein and vegetable protein food should eat with. Legume food intake, should be used as part of total protein intake ( dialysis patients should not exceed 1 of the total / 3), so on renal function is good. General nephrotic syndrome patients daily protein intake preferably between 40to 50 grams; renal dysfunction, patients with uremia and renal failure, every plant protein and animal protein intakes of total no more than40 grams. If is the end-stage renal disease patient, it should be strictly limited to protein intake. ( Zheng Yang finishing )