Therapeutic Diet №15

The fifteenth diet is a balanced, healthy, full-fledged diet. Diet refers to a number of therapeutic nutritional systems developed by the Soviet scientist Manuel Pevzner. With the help of simple rules and requirements, this technique speeds up recovery after diseases, enhances immunity in adults and children, and normalizes weight. Periodically, it is recommended even to healthy people for the prevention of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, and heart.

Application of the treatment program

Diet (table) No. 15 was compiled by Pevzner as a general technique for patients during the period of rehabilitation and recovery. In addition to this technique, the scientist made fourteen other, more stringent diets, each of which is used for a particular pathology.^[1]. Table No. 15 is used before switching to a normal diet after more stringent food restrictions.

In resorts, hospitals and resorts to people who do not require a special menu, this diet is shown. A balanced and nutritious diet compensates for the lack of useful components, relieves stress from the digestive system and the cardiovascular system.

Diet number 15 is used to prevent various diseases. A proper diet strengthens and improves immunity, increases resistance to viruses, infectious and fungal diseases, so the body is better able to resist pathogens.

Calorie intake is common, so a treatment table can be prescribed to people who are prone to overeating and weight gain. Due to this technique, a smooth reduction in mass occurs without loss of useful components and starvation.

In addition, the diet number 15 is assigned after the stresses, during the period of depression, neurosis. The list of recommended products contains names that do not irritate the central nervous system and strengthen the nervous system due to magnesium, folic acid, thiamine.

Rules of the treatment program

The principles of the treatment program are designed for the recovery of the patient after diseases and operations. The main purpose of the diet is to replenish the diet of the patient’s weakened body with the necessary nutrients, vitamins and minerals. It necessarily includes products with a minimum content of preservatives, dyes and flavor enhancers, but at the same time rich in fiber, vitamins, minerals and amino acids.

Also, nutrition should be balanced in terms of the main components of food – proteins, fats and carbohydrates. It is recommended to use per day:

• 100 g protein;
• up to 400 g of carbohydrates, preferably slow (complex);
• 90 g of fat – in a larger percentage of vegetable.

If the patient is overweight, the amount of fat and carbohydrates is reduced. Caloric intake should be approximately 2500 kcal.

The diet should be built in such a way that there are 4-5 meals a day. The most nutritious and satisfying should be breakfasts and lunches, for lunch you need to eat up to 35% of the daily allowance, and leave only 15% for dinner. The last meal should take place no later than 2 hours before bedtime. The recommended volume of dishes is no more than 200-250 ml, for clarity – food should fit in two palms.

The usual amount of salt should be reduced to 15 g per day, it is advisable to salt the food not during cooking, but already prepared dishes. Of spices, it is recommended to give preference to not very sharp so as not to excite the nervous system. Shop sauces and synthetic seasonings must be discarded.

It is necessary to observe the drinking regime to ensure detoxification and rehydration of the body. The average norm is 1,5 liters of water per day. If the diet is used after suffering diseases of the kidneys or the cardiovascular system, the doctor should set the rate of salt and water.

Only clean water can be used to quench thirst. From carbonated drinks, periodic consumption of table water with useful minerals is allowed. Packaged juices, sweet sodas, energy drinks should be excluded.

It is important to eat only fresh food. It is best if the food is cooked before the meal. Heating of food is allowed only once, even if it was in the refrigerator.

To strengthen the immune system, you can accompany the diet by taking vitamin complexes, brewer’s yeast, herbal decoctions. Apply nutritional supplements preferably only after approval by a physician.

Products for diet

The diet should be rich in natural, healthy food. You should abandon all synthetic food, flavorings, dyes, fast food. Be sure to eat vegetables, fruits, herbs, berries once or twice a day. Meat and fish products need to choose low-fat species and varieties, they need to be consumed without skin, fascia, tendons.

Recommend to include in food:

1. Chopped, oat, rye bread. White bread can be used, but in small quantities. It is better to use yesterday’s pastries, dry biscuits, biscuits, gingerbread cookies, dried bread, toasts.
2. Low-fat meat and offal. Recommended rabbit, turkey, chicken, pure beef and veal fillet. Offal can be used two to three times a week.
3. Low-fat fish and seafood. All types of mollusks, river and sea fish are suitable. It is important to carefully choose these products and avoid spoiled ingredients, fish from polluted reservoirs, canned food with damaged packaging.
4. Vegetables and greens. They can be eaten raw in the form of salads or cuts, heat treated. Greens should be used fresh, with dense leaves.
5. Fruits and berries. They are recommended to eat before lunch, and in the afternoon leave vegetables and protein foods. It is better to choose sweet and sour varieties and types: pears, grapes, apples, raspberries, currants. Berries and fruits can be eaten whole or prepared from them drinks and desserts.
6. Porridge and pasta. All kinds of cereals are allowed. Pasta and legumes can be added to the diet up to 3 once a week.
7. Dairy products. It is better to choose low-fat products, without flavors and dyes. You can use cottage cheese, hard mild cheese, sour-milk drinks. The amount of whole milk needs to be reduced, no more than a glass is allowed to drink per day, you can add it to dishes or drinks.
8. Vegetable oils. Any kind of cold-pressed oils is suitable: linseed, olive, sunflower, sesame. To salad dressings, you can add citrus juice, apple cider vinegar. Garnishes are allowed to use a small amount of butter.
9. Roasted nuts, seeds.
10. Natural desserts. Only homemade sweets from the tested components are allowed: jelly, jelly, molasses, nougat, marmalade, pastries, meringues, meringues. Up to 20 g of dark chocolate is allowed. Pure sugar is limited to 2 teaspoons per day.
11. Healthy drinks. Instead of purchased juices, you need to use homemade compote or fruit drink, it is sometimes useful to cook broths of wild rose, chamomile, linden, barberry. One serving of coffee with milk or cream is allowed, it is better to switch to caffeine-free counterparts.

Given the wide range of products and dishes recommended by the diet, planning a menu will not be difficult. All natural ingredients have one or another benefit for restoring vitality. A healthy varied diet, combined with an adequate drinking regimen, will help speed up the recovery of the body and prevent the disease from becoming chronic.

Prohibited products

The list of prohibited foods for diet number 15 is not so long. Only preservatives, dyes, flavor and aroma enhancers, products that excite the central nervous system (coffee, strong green tea, rich meat and mushroom broths, fatty side dishes, spicy, too salty and sour) are excluded.

In order not to overload the stomach, you need to get rid of heavy animal fats: lard, fat, smoked meats, beef and mutton fat. Lean meat is best boiled or baked, steamed. Fried – must be minimized.

To eliminate toxic effects on the body, you should completely abandon purchased crackers, snacks, chips, peanuts with additives. Sweet soda, packaged juices, kvass, instant coffee are excluded.

For the duration of the diet, you need to abandon store sauces and hot spices. This includes: mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise, horseradish, tabasco, turmeric, anise, etc. It is also not allowed to use trans fats, the most common of which is margarine. Avoid foods that include hazardous cooking oils and supplements.

A mandatory requirement for a diet is the rejection of alcoholic beverages. The toxic and destructive effect of alcohol can completely neutralize the therapeutic effect of the diet.

Health menu

It is very important that the food is varied. A wide list of allowed products allows you to be imaginative in cooking. Recovery from illness and surgery will be faster if fortified components, plant fiber, protein are present in the diet. An example of such a menu for a week can be taken from medical sites or compiled independently.

Monday

Breakfast: pearl barley porridge with pumpkin, tea with milk.

Lunch: soup with lentils and rabbit, rye toast, compote.

Snack: a glass of ryazhenka.

Dinner: stewed Brussels sprouts, steam cutlet, linden broth.

Tuesday

Breakfast: semolina on milk, slices of fresh apricot, tea.

Lunch: vegetarian borsch, buckwheat with boiled mushrooms, bread.

Safe, baked pear.

Dinner: stuffed fish, mix of lettuce and cucumber, compote.

Wednesday

Breakfast: pancakes with honey, weak black tea.

Lunch: pea soup, bread crumbs, pilaf with meat.

Lunch: compote with dryers.

Dinner: chicken in sour cream, squash caviar, rosehip tea.

Thursday

Breakfast: an omelet with tomatoes, toast from bran bread, coffee with milk.

Lunch: broth with noodles and veal, millet porridge with dried apricots.

Snack: apple juice, unroasted nuts.

Dinner: stuffed peppers, a little sour cream, chamomile tea.

Friday

Breakfast: cottage cheese casserole with raisins, tea.

Lunch: beetroot soup, rice with vegetables, oat bread.

Snack: yogurt with fresh raspberries.

Dinner: mashed potatoes with meatballs, a salad of fresh vegetables.

Saturday

Breakfast: barley porridge with apple, bread with cheese, tea.

Dinner: soup with meatballs and vegetables, stewed cabbage.

Lunch: compote, seed biscuits.

Dinner: boiled rice, fish with vegetables, fresh pear and apples.

Sunday

Breakfast: soft-boiled eggs, fresh vegetable salad with greens, toast, tea.

Lunch: mushroom cream soup, steam cutlets with buckwheat, bread.

Afternoon snack: a glass of yogurt.

Dinner: veal, stewed with asparagus beans, jelly.

According to the recipe and method of preparation, dietary dishes are not much different from ordinary ones. Patients who had to follow this technique at home, note the ease in its observance. The dietary menu can be freely used in the family.

The 15 table for children is no different from adult food. A growing body needs to consume more plant foods and dairy products. It is important to ensure that the child eats all the necessary components: fish, meat, cereal. It is not necessary to force him to eat the whole portion, a small amount is enough. If the kid does not like porridge, you can make them sweet, the meat and fish “mask” for an interesting presentation.

Diet 15g

Table 15g – hyponatrium diet. It is used for patients with hypertension in stages I and IIA. In this case, all the rules of the diet and lists of products remain the same as in No. XXUMX, but the amount of salt (sodium chloride) decreases. Additionally, it is recommended to abandon canned food, salted cheeses, sausages, fish roe, salted fish.

All dishes are not salted during cooking, bread and other pastries should be salt-free. The optimal salt rate for hypertension of such stages is a maximum of 7 grams. The patient receives the prescribed amount of sodium chloride on hand and salts the food as needed.

The results of therapeutic diets

Table No. 15 is assigned for the entire recovery period, if it was preceded by an illness. You can feel the first results of using such a diet after 3 weeks.

During the diet, the digestive function is completely restored in patients, the load on the central nervous system, liver and kidneys is reduced. There is a gradual transition to a normal diet. The main positive effect of diet number 15 is to improve overall well-being and strengthen the body’s defenses.

Proper nutrition improves not only physical health. It also has a positive effect on the emotional state, improves memory and concentration.

Periodic use of diet number 15 is recommended for everyone, including adolescents and the elderly. If there is a problem of frequent ailments, excess weight and mood swings, then it is better to stick to this type of diet always.

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