Diet 4 table: features and menus

In case of adrenal gland diseases, it is imperative to adhere to the doctor's recommendations, but alternative methods can significantly improve the patient's condition. In any case, first of all, a doctor's consultation is necessary, since these glands perform an important function in the body, and a failure in their work can undermine human health. Traditional medicine initially provides a dietary table. Therefore, in this section, it is the nutrition of sick people that will be considered.

What is possible on a diet 4 table

Therapeutic diet number 4 is indicated for people with adrenal pathologies and a number of other diseases of the digestive system. It is known that with these diseases, problems begin with the adrenal glands.

The purpose of such a dietary food:

• reduction of fermentation processes;
• fighting inflammation;
• updating the functioning of the digestive system;
• transfer of the intestines to a more gentle mode.

With this diet, the intake of fat and carbohydrate foods is reduced. The entry of food into the stomach provides for the absence of mechanical or thermal damage to the organ, and should also reduce the increase in bile. Dishes are boiled or steamed. For quick assimilation, they are ground or crushed by another available method.

Approved products include:

1. Wheat croutons, thinly cut and lightly fried.
2. If it is a cookie, then it must be dry.
3. Vermicelli.
4. Porridge made from buckwheat, rolled oats, rice and semolina. They boil well in lean broth or water.
5. Lean rabbit, chicken, turkey, veal, beef. First you need to thoroughly clean the meat, remove the fascia and tendons, and degrease if necessary. Bread is not added to the minced meat, boiled rice is put there. Then it is ground again in any available way.
6. Boil the soup in meat or fish broth, but it must be fat-free. You can add rice or semolina, grated meat, steamed dumplings, meatballs or egg flakes.
7. Steamed or boiled low-fat fish.
8. It is permissible to add up to 5 g of oil to food.
9. From dairy dishes, calcined cottage cheese is allowed only fresh.
10. Fruit only in jelly or jelly, non-acidic.
11. Sugar in a minimum amount, only 50 g per day is allowed.
12. Vegetables are boiled and wiped.
13. Allowed teas, cocoa, boiled in water, compotes from quince, blueberries, rose hips.

What is not allowed on a diet 4 table

Now it's worth examining the prohibitions in diet number 4:

1. From the first courses banned - milk soups, broths with broths, both meat and fish, and mushroom. Cereal and vegetable ungrated soups.
2. If it is meat or fish, then you cannot fatty varieties, by-products in the form of sausages, pates, etc., fish oil, caviar, fast foods, lumpy meat and fish.
3. From side dishes - pasta and noodles, some cereals such as barley, pearl barley, millet.
4. From desserts banned cocoa with milk, sweets, confectionery, honey, butter biscuits, jam, etc.
5. The following vegetables are excluded - mushroom dishes, onions and garlic, beans, cabbage (except cauliflower), peppers, tomatoes and leafy greens.
6. Fresh fruits and berries, as well as freshly squeezed juices from them, compotes selectively.
7. Alcohol, soda, lemonade, cold drinks.
8. Almost all dairy products, cheese products, etc.
9. Animal fats, margarine.
10. Eggs fried, raw and hard-boiled.
11. From bread products, heavy pastries in the form of buns, pancakes, pastries.
12. Seasonings in the form of ketchup, mayonnaise and other spices are prohibited.

Sample menu

For breakfast:

In this case, two options are possible:

1. Cook oatmeal in water. To do this, dissolve 40 g of cereal in 0.4 l of water. Cook for 10 minutes. Then the finished mass should be rubbed again. Adding salt and half a spoonful of butter is acceptable.
2. Make an egg white omelet. To do this, whisk the protein from two eggs with a whisk together with salt. A quarter glass of water is added. Pour the mixture into a glass dish and put it on steam.

Second breakfast (2 options):

1. Blueberry compote.
2. Bake the apple, there is only the pulp without the skin.

Dinner:

The first is chicken-based semolina broth. So in a weak chicken broth in the amount of 0.35 g, 15 g of semolina is poured. You can also throw some dried dill there. The soup is cooked for 20 minutes. You can serve it with slices of dried bread. It is pre-soaked in soup.

The second option for the first courses is a turkey broth puree soup with rice. In this case, rice is boiled separately. After that, the turkey fillet is grinded in a blender, and the rice is grinded again. Then all the products can be combined and filled with broth.

Garnish - mashed potatoes in liquid form, diluted with water with 5 g of butter and a pinch of salt. Or it can be buckwheat with the addition of a small amount of oil, salt and pre-grated through a sieve. For lunch, you can serve fish or meat dishes, ground and minced. From drinks, you can cook bird cherry jelly or compote with rose hips.

For an afternoon snack:

Calcined curd mass, only fresh or steamed curd casserole.

Dinner:

Option 1 - steamed potato croquettes with the addition of fish.

Option 2 - soufflé from carrots, apples, cauliflower. Initially, all ingredients are boiled. Semolina and a small amount of sugar are also added there. After that, everything is grinded through a sieve. Butter and a third of a chicken egg are added to the resulting mass. Then all the products are laid out in a multicooker and the "baking" mode is set. It is advisable that the menu for sick people be developed by a specialist, since the nutrition of a person with sick adrenal glands plays an almost key role in the recovery process.