Diet For Vitiligo - Healthy And Unhealthy Foods, Menus For The Week

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Vitiligo diet

With vitiligo, metabolic processes are disturbed, therefore it is so important to adhere to a certain diet. At the same time, the diet sets as its main task the restoration of metabolic processes, saturating the body with useful mineral elements.

Medical research has concluded that vitiligo is severely lacking in a number of important components:

• Zinc;
• Gland;
• Copper;
• Group B vitamins;
• Vitamins C and E.

The diet for vitiligo is built in such a way that all these elements were present in foods in the maximum amount.

A number of recommendations regarding nutrition in vitiligo are highlighted. Observing them, you can achieve a good result in the complex treatment of the disease:

• Eat 200 grams of fruit salad half an hour before the main breakfast.
• Lunch begins with a vegetable salad seasoned with vegetable oil.
• Porridge should be the main dish for vitiligo sufferers. Cereals contain a large amount of trace elements responsible for skin health.
• Lunch must include the first course.
• Ginger is added to different dishes, preferably fresh. This component has a beneficial effect on the condition of the skin.
• Meat dishes are steamed or boiled.

Such prescriptions allow you to adjust the diet and restore the functions of the skin.

Content:

• Healthy foods for vitiligo
• Harmful foods for vitiligo
• Vitiligo weekly menu

Healthy foods for vitiligo

The diet for vitiligo involves the inclusion of certain foods in the diet and the exclusion of a specific set.

So, with vitiligo, the diet includes:

• Vegetables;
• Fruit;
• Fresh berries (sweet taste);
• Copper-rich foods: fish and mushrooms;
• Tyrosine-rich foods: pumpkin seeds and beans;
• Millet, buckwheat and barley porridge;
• Various dried fruits soaked in water;
• Weak green tea with mint;
• Freshly squeezed vegetable and fruit juices, smoothies;
• Honey;
• Iodized salt.

The listed products will help not only cope with vitiligo, but also increase the vitality of the body, strengthen the immune system.

Harmful foods for vitiligo

Harmful foods that should be excluded from the diet include:

• Fatty food;
• Pickles and smoked meats;
• Beef of any cooking method;
• Products with sour and spicy tastes;
• Strong drinks: black tea, coffee, cocoa;
• Bread and pastries;
• Pastries and cakes, creams;
• Sauces;
• Alcoholic drinks;
• Semolina;
• Butter (with any percentage of fat) and margarine;
• Canned food;
• Quince and blueberry;
• Any chocolate;
• Dishes and foods containing starch.

The diet for vitiligo only at first glance seems strict. In fact, such a diet is balanced, containing all the necessary components and trace elements.

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Vitiligo weekly menu

An example menu for vitiligo may look like this.

Monday:

• Breakfast: a portion of apple and pear salad, buckwheat in water, green tea;
• Lunch: a portion of vegetable salad (cucumbers, tomatoes, herbs) with the addition of olive oil, vegetable soup, steamed fish, fruit drink;
• Dinner: a portion of beetroot salad with sunflower oil, boiled chicken, weak tea with mint.

Tuesday:

• Breakfast: 1 fruit, barley porridge in water, green tea with ginger;
• Lunch: a portion of radish and greens salad, seasoned with olive oil, noodle soup, steamed pork, fruit compote;
• Dinner: 200 grams of spinach, steamed turkey, mild tea with mint.

Wednesday:

• Breakfast: a portion of fruit salad, low-fat cottage cheese, tea with mint;
• Lunch: 200 grams of white cabbage and carrot salad with olive oil, mushroom soup, steamed chicken, berry compote;
• Dinner: a portion of boiled cauliflower, boiled fish, weak green tea with ginger.

Thursday:

• Breakfast: 1 fruit, dairy-free millet porridge with pumpkin; Mint tea;
• Lunch: a portion of salad of cucumbers, tomatoes and herbs with the addition of sunflower oil, vegetable soup, boiled fish, berry compote;

• Dinner: 200 grams of seaweed, boiled chicken, green tea with mint.

Friday:

• Breakfast: a portion of fruit salad, buckwheat porridge on the water, tea with ginger;
• Lunch: a portion of carrot and greens salad with the addition of linseed oil, noodle soup, boiled turkey, berry juice;
• Dinner: 200 grams of broccoli with corn oil, green tea with ginger.

Saturday:

• Breakfast: 1 fruit, low-fat cottage cheese, mint tea;
• Lunch: 200 grams of spinach, mushroom soup, steamed fish, fruit compote;
• Dinner: 200 grams of beetroot salad dressed with sunflower oil, boiled rabbit meat, weak green tea.

Sunday:

• Breakfast: 200 grams of fruit salad, dairy-free barley porridge; weak green tea;
• Lunch: 200 grams of salad of cucumbers, tomatoes and herbs with corn oil, vegetable soup, boiled turkey, berry compote;
• Dinner: 200 grams of carrot and greens salad, seasoned with sunflower oil, weak tea with mint.

Fresh berries and fruit drinks are good for snacks between main meals. This is an approximate menu for a week for vitiligo sufferers, which can be adjusted depending on individual preferences, taking into account healthy and unhealthy foods while following a diet.

Diet for vitiligo in complex therapy gives good results. Modern medical science has established that it is a balanced diet, which includes useful substances and trace elements, that can suspend and even completely eliminate the main aesthetic manifestations of the disease - white spots.

Typically, vitiligo is associated with a number of other diseases related to the digestive and immune systems. Rational, well-structured nutrition allows you to correct many of the body's problems and eliminate deficiencies in the work of the main functions.

The author of the article: Kuzmina Vera Valerievna | Endocrinologist, nutritionist

Education: Diploma of the Russian State Medical University named after NI Pirogov with a degree in General Medicine (2004). Residency at Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, diploma in Endocrinology (2006).