| | Common chronic diseases | Cause | Nutrient intake recommendations |
Diet | | Recommendation | No recommendation |
| | Bone Loss | Calcium loss, especially in postmenopausal women, causes women hormonal imbalance, loss of balance bone metabolism, and accelerating bones aging. | Daily calcium intake of 1000–1500 mg and a daily intake of two cups of milk 240 CC will have 590 milligrams of calcium, and the remaining portion comes from the other food supplements. | Milk, chrysanthemum, broccoli, and leeks. | Spinach, because of folic acid and easiness to bind with calcium and uneasiness to be excreted, is not recommended.
Ham and sausage contain excess phosphorus.
Excess phosphorus and calcium binding would hinder the intestinal absorption and so decrease calcium. |
| | Gout | Too much uric acid or uric acid excretion blocked will cause the deposition of uric acid crystals in the joints. | Reduce the intake of foods containing Princeton, fatty, alcohol intake. | Eggs, milk, sea cucumber, jellyfish, lean meat, grains, tubers, vegetables, and fruits. | Dried fish, skin, and thick gravy. Eat less red meat (cattle, pigs, and sheep), seafood, sprouting beans, bean sprouts, asparagus, mushrooms, seaweed, and so on. |
| | Diabetes | Mainly due to the body's tissue ability loss to utilize glucose, or lack of insulin, the body glucose has not been charged. | Diet with exercise and exercise can promote the body metabolism and lower blood sugar values. When choosing carbohydrate foods, it should try to use polysaccharides, such as rice and pasta, to help stabilize blood sugar levels. Eat or limit refined sugars. | Protein foods should be chosen with high nutritional value, such as fish, meat, eggs, milk, and soy. Eat more fresh vegetables, because they contain fiber to help maintain blood sugar. | Refined sugars: glucose, fructose, and sucrose foods, honey, sweets, and sweetened beverages. Eat less sugar and more fruit: bananas, persimmons, pineapple, etc. |
| Hypertension
(systolic blood pressure over 140 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure over 90 mm Hg) | Cause of hypertension includes genetics, age, obesity, diabetes, salt, wine, coffee, tobacco, high cholesterol, stress, and lack of exercise.
| Less salt, spices, and sodium in foods.
Avoid excessive intake of calories.
Avoid animal fat and cholesterol content of foods.
Do not smoke or drink dark tea and coffee.
Appropriate amount of potassium, such as bananas,
6 fish oil supplements, such as tuna, sardines, Pacific saury, bonito, and salmon. | Low in saturated fatty foods: plant foods, fish, shellfish, and seaweed.
Best alternatives saturated fatty acids are breads, cereals, fruits, and vegetables.
Practical foods containing soluble fiber such as oats, bran, beans, and other food categories and can help lower blood lipids. | Offal, egg yolks, seafood, lard, greasy foods, sugar, spicy, dark tea, coffee, etc. |
| | Degenerative arthritis | As getting old, articular cartilage gradually makes bone deformation and necrosis. | Containing gum, chondroitin, and other foods which is conducive to cartilage repair | Pig ear, tendons, shellfish, mushrooms, and seaweed. | |
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