How do I get my cholesterol and triglycerides down?

Question

I am 42 yrs old and my heart doctors nurse called me the other day to tell me to start taking a daily fish oil capsule and he would re check my lipid profile in 3 months. It all sounds kinda vague to me. I do not have a clue how to read the fat/polyunsaturated/cholesterol part of a food label. I would appreciate suggestions.
I am not stupid, but never had to think about this kind of stuff before.

Answer 1

Aren't you on any choloresterol medication?
That will decrease the numbers somewhat..... geez, I'm on vytorin; it does help some, but you have to eat properly and exercise or so my doctor says......checking food labels is not that hard.......you'll be surprised as to what is actually in your products.

Hope this website will be helpful...

Good and Bad Cholesterol?
http://cholesterol-faq.org/types.html?utm_source=enh&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=bad+cholesterol&utm_campaign=types

Fish Oil
http://www.fish-oil-facts.com/

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Natural Cholesterol Guide?

Answer 4

Triglycerides come from two sources: diet and your liver manufactures triglycerides. High levels can be caused by diet, direutics, beta blockers, and heredity. Direutics and beta blockers are prescirbed by physicians to lower high blood pressure. Obesity, type II diabetes, high refined carbohydrates in diet (like white bread, starches, candy, sugar, or honey), lack of exercise, heavy caffeine consumption, drinking alcoholic beverages, and cigarette smoking cause high triglycerides. You can reduce this level by quitting smoking, drinking, caffeine consumption, reducing your weight, and exercising.

The tendency to build up high cholesterol may run in families, but excessively high levels are usually the result of a poor diet high in saturated fats and calories, combined with little or no exercise. Reduce your bad cholesterol by restricting saturated fats, calories, and including exercise in your daily routine.

Fish oil tablets should increase HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol) and reduce triglyceride level. I recommend two 1,000mg tablets. This can be doubled if the lipid reading in three months remains high.

Answer 5

Cut all the white fat off your meat, or stick to low fat protiens like fish and chicken. The omega 3 fish tablets are good. Watch your butter intake. Eat more fibre(veges/grains) and a little bit of exercise will help.
Cut out pies, chips, takeaways and the bickies and cakes. If you need something sweet, try dark chocolate(in moderation). Alcohol is also a big contibutor to cholesterol.

Answer 6

You have to stay away from fat. No fried food, no hamburgers, steaks, potato chips french fries, anything with alot of fat in it. Basicly anyting that tastes good lol. You should also exercise, that will help ALOT. It takes a bit of time to lower it so don't go back next month and expect to see a big difference. Eat really good healthy food, exercise and take the supplements your doctor said and you should be able to lower it without taking pills. Also if it comes in a bag or box, it probley isn't good for you, so theres another tip. Good luck!

Answer 7

Eating cholesterol friendly foods and low cholesterol foods and low cholesterol diet / recipe.

Eating foods with fibers including oats

Increase physical activity.

Eating Psyllium Husk

Cutting the amount of fat you eat, particularly avoiding the saturated fat and tran fat, can lower your cholesterol level.

Avoid following foods

Food sources of cholesterol such as egg yolk, liver, kidney, brains, etc.

Foods that contain trans fats i.e. hydrogenated oil or vegetable shortening. Choose a liquid or semi-soft variety of margarine. Remember, the softer the spread, the less trans fat it contains.

Fatty meats

Fatty spreads such as butter and cream

High fat dairy products such as regular milk, cheese & cream.

Reduce or eliminate alcohol intake.

Please keep in mind that cholesterol HDL/LDL ratio is more important than individual levels of HDL cholesterol and LDL cholesterol.

WebMD offers free cholesterol reducing diet guidelines http://www.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/zp3031.asp?navbar=hw115434

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Quit eating all the stuff with a chemistry list for a label and start eating tons of veggies and fatty fish the Omega stuff.

Answer 10

Medicine can certainly do it. A bunch of other diseases such as liver or gall bladder problems can also do it.