Benefits of Artichokes for PKD Patients

2014-05-16 09:20

Artichokes are popular vegetable for people all over the world, and it has many healthy benefits for people to eat in their daily life. And this unique vegetable has been a source of nutrition to people for over thousands of years, which is enjoyed by people all over the world.

As we know, for PKD patients, they need to pay attention to their daily diet, which plays an important role in their daily life, and a kidney-friendly diet will be helpful for PKD patients. So patients need to know exactly what can eat and what cant eat about the foods.

Artichokes are high in nutrition, such as phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, dietary fiber, riboflavin, folate, manganese, vitamin C and vitamin K, and this vegetable is also low in saturated fat and cholesterol.

Here are some benefits for PKD patients to take artichokes.

1. Good for cholesterol levels

Artichokes are a good worker which can keep cholesterol levels at a balance, and this can help to lower bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol.

2. Protect the kidney function

Artichokes are high in vitamin C, which can help protect the kidneys from getting infections. Besides, the artichokes are also high in quercertin, anthocyanins, luteolin, cynarin, silymarin, which are antioxidants, and all these will be helpful for PKD patients.

3. Liver benefits

Artichokes also have the function of protecting the liver healthy, which will be also helpful for PKD patients.

There are also some other benefits of eating artichokes, such as improving digestion, prevent cancer, recovery from hangover, which will also be helpful for PKD patients.

But there are also some other things that PKD patients need to avoid eating artichokes. Since artichokes are high in phosphorus and potassium, so PKD patients who have high potassium or high phosphorus levels in blood need to avoid the intake of artichokes.

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