Duck meat and psychological well-being: Diet and emotional management for patients with hyperlipidemia

② Skin care and beauty

Duck eggs contain a relatively high amount of vitamin B₂, making them an ideal food for supplementing B vitamins. They also have skin-care and beautifying effects.

③ Relieve heart disease

The abundant niacin in duck meat is a component of two important coenzymes in the human body, which has a protective effect on patients with heart diseases such as myocardial infarction.

Duck meat is suitable for people who are malnourished, have edema, or are weak after childbirth. However, it is not suitable for people who are usually weak and cold, or who suffer from loss of appetite, stomach pain, diarrhea, back pain, or dysmenorrhea due to cold.

Old duck is not easy to stew until tender. You can take a piece of pig pancreas, chop it up and cook it with the old duck. The duck meat will be tender and the soup will be delicious. Alternatively, you can soak the old duck meat in cold water and a little vinegar for 2 hours, and then stew it over low heat.

Only when you're in a good mood will lowering blood lipids have a remarkable effect.

Scientists have discovered that psychological factors such as poor sleep and mental stress can affect lipid metabolism, especially in people with hyperlipidemia, where stress can increase serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Therefore, people with hyperlipidemia should maintain a good mood and relax to stabilize their blood lipids and maintain good health.

A positive mood is a crucial factor for health and longevity, and it's also a key to managing hyperlipidemia. Therefore, hyperlipidemia patients should maintain an optimistic and cheerful attitude in their daily lives, thus helping to manage high cholesterol levels effectively.

To recover from illness, start by taking care of your mind; a good mental state leads to lower blood lipids.

Domestic epidemiological surveys have found that some elderly patients with hyperlipidemia experience a significant decrease in blood lipid levels after retirement, even gradually returning to normal, without changes in medication, diet, or lifestyle. Furthermore, this decrease is stable and persistent, not a temporary fluctuation. Patients with hyperlipidemia, especially those with coronary heart disease, should maintain a positive mood and minimize anger and frustration. This not only protects cardiovascular health but also helps control their condition.

Healthy individuals' psychological activities are mostly directed towards the external objective environment, while patients' psychological activities are more focused on themselves and their illness. Generally speaking, the psychological activities of patients with hyperlipidemia and related conditions have the following characteristics, and understanding these characteristics can more effectively help patients with hyperlipidemia recover their health.

Emotional instability

When healthy people fall ill, they are prone to developing a negative mood, manifesting as emotional instability, anxiety, irritability, depression, fear, or pessimism. Some patients become irritable and even willful. Male patients may become extremely angry over trivial matters, while female patients often exhibit depression and crying.

② Doubts

Some patients, upon hearing medical staff speak in hushed tones, assume they are discussing their condition, feeling their illness is severe or even incurable; others are skeptical of well-intentioned advice, or even misinterpret it; some patients have numerous anxieties about medication and injections, worrying about misdiagnosis, taking the wrong medicine, or receiving the wrong injection; some patients overthink even minor discomfort in a certain part of their body. Generally speaking, patients with introverted personalities, those who were pre-existingly suspicious, those easily influenced by negative suggestions, and those with pre-existing mental illnesses tend to have more anxieties.

③ Dependence

When healthy people fall ill, they often experience a decline in spirits and an increase in passive dependence. At this time, patients tend to become passive, compliant, dependent, emotionally fragile, and even somewhat childish. Some patients exhibit regressive behaviors, having others do tasks they could do themselves whenever family members are present. During their recovery, their sense of dependence and belonging intensifies, and they crave more care and help, or more visits from relatives and friends; otherwise, they feel lonely and lost.

4. Self-pity

Self-pity is an emotional state characterized by helplessness, despair, sadness, and self-pity. This emotion often occurs in patients with poor prognoses or critical illnesses. These patients, due to a loss of self-worth and decreased self-confidence, believe they have lost control over their environment and that those around them are powerless to meet their needs, thus losing the will to live. Self-pity is a negative psychological state opposite to positive expectations, and medical staff must strive to change this negative mindset through psychotherapy and psychological care; otherwise, it will be extremely detrimental to disease control.

5 expect

Generally, patients crave sympathy and support; they expect a swift recovery and, more importantly, survival. Those with high expectations often interpret the comfort of family members and the encouragement of medical staff as signs of easing symptoms or even impending recovery. When their condition worsens, they anticipate improvement after the illness subsides. Even in critical condition, they hope for a miraculous recovery. This expectation serves as a pillar of support for survival, a positive psychological state that objectively benefits treatment and recovery.

⑥ Loneliness

When a person falls ill, they leave their workplace and home and are admitted to a hospital ward. At this time, they have less contact with people, or they are surrounded by strangers, or their contact time is extremely short, which aggravates the patient's sense of loneliness. Patients always hope that someone will accompany them and say a few words to them, in order to gain psychological comfort.