Kidney Failure Diet: Carrot is a Good Choice

2014-03-29 03:59

As we know, kidney failure patients need to keep a kidney-friendly diet, which will be helpful for them. Carrot is a common vegetable, which is called as “small ginseng”, just from the name we can know that carrot is a high nutrition vegetable.

Carrots are rich in sugar, fat, essential oil, carotene, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, anthocyanins, calcium, iron, etc, all these nutrition will be good for kidney failure patients. So we recommend to be a certain diet for kidney failure patients.

1. Lower the high risk of heart disease

Carrot is high in α-carotene, which has the function of suppressing the growth of the tumor cells. Besides, it can also reduce the risk of heart disease for people. And α-carotene will prolong the life expectancy for people. In this aspect, carrot will be helpful for kidney failure patients, which can help make a good prognosis for people.

2. Prevent the allergic

β-carotene in carrot has the function of prevent the pollen allergy, atopic dermatitis and other allergic disease. As we know, some allergic disease such as Purpura can cause kidney damage. So eating carrot can help prevent allergic and prevent the further damage to kidneys.

3. Reduce high blood sugar

As we know, high blood sugar is one of the leading causes of kidney disease, so people need to firmly control their blood sugar, which can help make a good prognosis for kidney failure patients. As the study shows carrot can help lower high blood sugar.

Besides, the quercetin and kaempferia galanga phenol in carrot can help increase the blood volume in coronary artery, which can help lower high blood sugar. And this can also help strong the heart and reduce the risk of heart disease.

4. Improve immune system

For kidney failure patients, they often suffer from poor immune system or immunity disorder, which can cause infections easily. Carrot has a substance which has the function of strengthening the immune system, it is lignin, which can improve the ability of human macrophages, and reduce the risk of cold, thus will help kidney failure patients prevent infections to kidneys and slow down the progression of kidney failure.

From above, we can know the benefits of eating carrot for kidney failure patients, so patients can eat carrot without worry. In general, the cooked carrot will be more beneficial for people, because the nutrition will not be lost after cooking with oil.

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