Secondary prevention

Lifestyle measures: diet

Recommendations 5.3.1

C. All patients should be advised to eat the optimum diet:

• Eating five or more portions of fruit and vegetables per day from a variety of sources
• Eating two portions of oily fish per week (salmon, trout, herring, pilchards, sardines, fresh tuna)
  

D. All patients should be advised to reduce and replace saturated fats in their diet with polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fats by:

• Using low-fat dairy products
• Replacing butter, ghee and lard with products based on vegetable and plant oils
• Limiting red meat intake especially fatty cuts and processed forms