What if Level of triglycerides increases in our body?

[Andrewgrants]

if level of triglycerides increases in our body, will it affect our body??? How can we control it??

[deejames]

I'm not sure what you mean. Can you be more specific.

Dee

[linlow]

A high triglyceride count could be indicative of a problem waiting to happen if HDL is low by comparison. If you also have any or all of high blood pressure, high blood sugar and too much fat around the waist then your risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke is increased. Unless it is caused by a genetic condition, you can reduce your cholesterol with diet and exercise. Give up smoking, give up drinking, give up sugar and processed foods. Eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Check out 'the rainbow diet' or 'the mediterranean diet'. And don't forget to exercise.

[Venusflytrap]

I think the jury is still out on this one, scientifically, if my reading is right. Adapting or including some foods into our diet seems to help. And they seem to be the same foods that help with lowering cholesterol. So I have porridge made with oats and water several times a week. I eat oily fish, I aim for two helpings a week but always manage one. I also replace some meat based ingredients with some vegetable proteins. So quorn or vegeburgers, beans instead of or as well as meat in some casseroles and some of the mince as cereal based vege mince. These changes within a healthy eating plan all seem to help. They are also ways of enriching your diet without increasing the cost, so that is another benefit! Hope that helps.

[Andrewgrants]

deejames i want to know that if the level of Triglycerides increases can it be problematic for our body and what are the ways to control triglycerides??

[linlow in reply to Andrewgrants]

In and of themselves triglycerides are neither good nor bad BUT the issue with them is that they act as increased markers indicative of other health issues - particularly metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome can be reversed and thus triglycerides reduced by positive lifestyles changes.

[Andrewgrants]

bit.ly/1rLoBuG Check this out is it true?

[linlow in reply to Andrewgrants]

To all intents and purposes, yes. It doesn't go into enough detail in some respects but it is true enough for the most part.

I would contend, though, that the last sentence instead of saying '....... which is why it is worth enjoying a healthy diet, taking regular exercise, limiting alcohol consumption, limiting your red meat consumption, watching your calories and including more oily fish in your diet.' should actually say something more like '....... which is why it is worth enjoying a healthy diet, taking regular exercise, limiting alcohol consumption, limiting your carbohydrate consumption to vegetables, increasing your omega 3 consumption and including more oily fish in your diet.'

We only need about a teaspoonful of sugar in our bloodstream at any one time. Carbohydrates are rapidly turned to sugar and send the body into overdrive to convert them to fat to bring blood levels back down. Fats and proteins are converted into sugars on demand. The number of triglycerides in the blood will expand rapidly with a rise in blood sugar. Unless you have a health condition that is causing your high levels then the way to reduce them is to take carbohydrate sugars out of your diet. Check out the graph at just short of 17 minutes into this video - the speaker had horrendous levels of triglycerides too and started researching how to improve his survival chances without medication, the graph came from one of the research papers he came across 'Dietary sugar in the production of hyperglyceridemia' youtube.com/watch?v=3vr-c8G...(Not working as expected?)