Heart Attack-Appendices

Hints of Food

1. Food for the Obese
(a) Consume Freely :

Beans, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, cucumber, lettuce, mushrooms, onions, pumpkin, radish, spinach, turnip, brinjal, ladies, finger, tinda and ghee a (different types of gourds).
Fruits (without added sugar): lemon, oranges, malta, melons, keenu (an orange like fruit), straw berries, raspberries, grape-fruit, mosammi.
Tea or coffee without sugar, soda water, lemon juice, tomato juice, diabetic fruit squach, clear unthickened soup, soup made of chicken or beef cubes.
Artificial sweetening agents (such as saccharine), salt and pepper, vinegar, mustard, herbs, masalas, flavourings and colourings.

(b) Avoid Consuming :

Sugar, gur ( jaggery) and glucose.
Sweets, toffees, chocolates, chocolate biscuits, cream biscuits, and similar items.
Halwai sweets : jalebi, gulab jamun, rasgullas, rasmalai, burfi, peda, and balushahi.
Sweet dishes halwa, custard, cornflour, firni and puddings.
Jams, marmalades and honey.
Tinned fruits and murabbas.
Dried fruits : dates, figs, apricots and sultanas (Kishmish)
Fruits (very sweet): mangoes and grapes.
Cakes, buns and pastries.
Cereals : rice, spaghetti and macaroni.
Breakfast cereals, porridge.
Beverages such as Cocoa, Boost, Bournvita and Horlicks.
Ice-creams, fresh cream, fruit cream.
Condensed milk.
Nuts.
Salad cream, salad dressing, mayonnaise.
Thickened sauces.
Sweet pickles and chutneys.
Thickened soups and gravies.
Alcoholic drinks : beer, wines, sherry, spirits.
Sweetened fruit juices, fruit squash.
Cola drinks and other sweet fizzy drinks.
Sausages.
Butter, malai egg yolk, ghee, vegetable oil ( except the minimum amount necessary for cooking).
All fried foods like parathas, samosa , and pakoras.

Cook the food any way you like - boiling, grilling, steaming or baking, but do not fry in ghee or oil