Products, Recommended by J. Pagano to People with Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis
70-80% of the diet should consist of such products as:
- Water: 6-8 glasses of pure water daily in addition to other liquids
- Lecithin (granulated): 1 Tbsp - 3 times a day, 5 days a week
- Fruits: fresh, frozen, steamed, rarely canned
Recommended fruits are: apples (baked) apricots, most berries, cherries, dates, common fig, grapes, grapefruit, lemon, lime, mango, nectarine, orange, papaya, peaches, pineapples, prunes (small), raisins, and kiwi.
In small quantities: Avocados, cranberry, currants, plums and prunes (large).
Fresh apples, bananas and melons are also permitted, but they should be separated from another food and consumed not too often.
- Vegetables: fresh, frozen, steamed, rarely - canned
Recommended vegetables are: asparagus, beetroot, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, celery, cucumber, garlic, lettuce, onions, olives, parsnip, pumpkins, spinach, sprouts, kidney beans, summer squashes, sweet potatoes, Chinese yam, watercress.
In small quantities: corn, dry beans, peas, lentil, rhubarb, mushrooms.
- Nuts - almonds, rare - hazelnut.
20-30% of the diet should consist of such products as:
- Cereals: oats, barley, millet, buckwheat, rye (porridges), bran, wheat - whole grains, sprouts, maize and maize flour; fig (brown and wild); whole grain seeds - pumpkin, sesame, sunflower, flax; pasta (not with white flour).
- Fish: not less than 4 times a week, never fried.
Tuna, codfish, mackerel, plaice, haddock, halibut, perch, snapper, salmon, sardine, lemon sole, sturgeon, sword-fish, whitefish.
- Fowl: chicken, turkey, partridge, not fat game (without skin, white meat is more preferable), 2-3 times a week.
- Meat: lean mutton, isolated from fat and well done (1-2 times a week), and never fried, 110-170g per one time.
- Dairy products: milk (low-fat), buttermilk, dry powder milk, goat milk, soy milk, almond milk, butter, low-fat margarine, low-fat plain yogurt, low-fat and low-salt cheese, low-fat and low-salt cottage cheese and melted cheese.
- Eggs: soft-boiled or hard-boiled, 2-4 times a week.
- Oil: olive, rapeseed, sunflower, maize, cotton, soybean, almond, sesame, safflower, rare - sesame (1tea spoon 3 times a day).
- Tea: crust of slippery elm (in the morning), dyer's saffron (in the daytime and in the evening) Camomile tea, or tea with watermelon seeds as the substitute to safflower tea.
Products, NOT Recommended by J. Pagano to People with Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis
- Berries and fruits: wild strawberries, strawberries (citrus fruits - with psoriatic arthritis).
- Vegetables: all vegetable of Solanaceae family - tomatoes, tobacco, eggplants, pepper, potatoes, pepper.
- Grains: White bread and products prepared with the use of white flour
- Fish: anchovies, herring, salmon, roe, shellfish (crabs, lobsters, shrimp), sauces from shellfish, mollusks (mussels, oysters, combs, squids), fish baked or crumbs, fried, marinated or smoked.
- Fowl: fatty fowl (weft, goose), fowl skin, fried, smoked, baked with a large number of spices or crumbs, or not thoroughly cooked.
- Meat: beef, pork, veal and everything, prepared from them: hamburgers, sausages, ham etc., internal meats (heart, kidney, brains, liver etc.), and mixing mutton with starchy products.
- Dairy products: all dairy products with a high content of fat
- Yeast or products made on yeast.
- Coffee: not more than 3 cups per a day (in the case of strong caffeine dependence), only black decaffeinated coffee.
- Other: fried food, pizza, alcohol, sweet porridges, vinegar, marinades, smoked foods, hot spices, coconut, palm oil.
Some foods should not be combined in the same meal:
- Do NOT mix whole grains, i.e. porridges, bread etc. - with citrus fruits or dried fruits.
- Do NOT mix citrus fruits with dairy products.
- Do NOT mix any fruits with white flour products: bread, porridges, pasta etc.
- Do NOT mix melons, raw apples, or bananas with other foods.
- Do NOT add milk, cream or sugar into coffee or tea.
- Do NOT mix too many acid-forming products (proteins, starches, sugar, fats and oil) in one meal.
- Red or white wine - rare by 50-100 g
- Try not to eat too much even of the permitted products
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