How do I lower my triglycerides?!
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Lowering triglycerides emphasizes several dietary components.
* Decreasing calories to lose weight if your Body Mass Index (BMI) is 25 or higher.
* Restricting alcohol
* Limiting fat to about 35% of calories
* Decreasing carbohydrate, particularly simple carbohydrate, to no more than about 50% of calories
* Decreasing saturated fat to less than 7% of calories
* Limiting dietary cholesterol to less than 200 mg per day
* Using unsaturated fat to replace saturated fat
Eat more fish as the fat in it is of the good sort. Eat fish that have a short life span like shrimp and salmon as they don't have the mercury problem and fish with longer lives have. Fish liver oil and flax seed oil are good for you
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eat all the cloves of a big garlic after microwving for 45 seconds
any good cardiac diet which you can find many places on the www.
you have to take fibrates,such as,fenofibrate,bezafibrate,or gemfibrozil.fenofibrate is the best taken 200 mg per day.but i advice you to consult your cardiologist or physician who will be in better position to advice you about it because some times triglycerides are raised along with Ldl cholesterol.so you may need different drug combination in such cases.
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self guru.
Keep your intake of fats down, especially trans fats, and to a lesser degree saturated fats. Keep up your exercise. Try to lose weight if possible and appropriate.
Generally, follow a heart healthy diet (see the American Heart Society for recipe suggestions and definitions of terms).
A good part of the reason your triglyceride levels was out of line, is inherited. We don't yet know how to directly change the inherited part, so we're limited to working on the remaining causes of high blood lipids.
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Oatmeal is also a great way to lower your cholesterol. It helps your body process and remove cholesterol naturally. There are 2 numbers to worry about - getting the bad stuff down, and the good cholesterol up (which fights the bad cholesterol).
Also did you know your body MAKES Cholesterol? Many don't, but it's needed, we just use too much in our diets as a culture.
I would recommend against 'highly processed' foods. In my opinion, this is why we are so overweight, heart disease and diabetes. Do the research on the net, you'd be shocked what you find! :) My next stop is to learn to 'sprout' beans/seeds/veggies. The Nutrition in them is WAY more powerful than a veggie served on your plate. What the heck, it's worth a go for me :) Peek around the site I linked for a bit, it's definately worth the time and the reading is interesting for those of us wishing to change our diets. I figure if they taste bad, that's what spices are for! LOL
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Experience, opinion and http://www.sproutpeople.com/
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