if i walk, 40mts 3 days in a week, will my cholesterol and triglyrides come down?what si the effect on my tum.

Answer 1

The exercise will help bring both down but you will need to look at your diet too to move things along in the right direction. The exercise will prob help get rid of a tum :)
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Answer 2

Well, I'm 39 weeks, 70% effaced and 6 cm dilated and wish I would go soon also. I've had some contractions but nothing regular and midwife predicted that I would go in to labor 5-3 days ago. If I were you, I'd ask to have membranes stripped. I've had it done twice and although it didn't send me into labor, id definitely brought on some contractions on those days. Wait it out. Do not agree to be induced unless medically necessary. I was induced with my first baby at 40 weeks even though everything else was fine. The pitossin gave me strong contractions and the baby was in distress after a while. They broke my water and since I didn't have the baby soon, I developed an infection and had to have an emergency c-section. Keep yourself hydraded, well rested and fed, and try the membrane stripping. Try to be more active. I've been sitting on my behind all day and hardly had a contraction, yet the days I'm out and about, I get them often.

Answer 3

If you combine your exercise with a good diet, and some supplements, yes. One of those supplements would be cinnamon to the tune of a half teaspoon a day. All my numbers went down when I added supplements to a healthy diet and exercise routine. More here:
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Answer 4

Is that 40 meters, 40 minutes or 40 mountains?

Answer 5

raja,

Yes, provided that you change your diet and your weight, too.

Both your cholesterol and your triglycerides come partly from your diet, partly from your liver, and partly from your level of activity. In order to lower both of them, you have to change everything that you can.

Now, you do not say what your cholesterol and triglyceride levels are, nor what your life and diet are like. Since you are human, and since you have questions (or troubles) with your cholesterol and triglycerides, may I conclude then that you do not exercise enough and you eat too much fats and oils?

That's usually where high (or even just higher) cholesterol and triglyceride levels come from.

A few years ago, Dr. T. Colin Campbell published a long study of rural Chinese. He had found that these Chinese ate a very low-fat and (by our standards) a low-protein diet, and they did not suffer the rates of heart disease and cancer that people with more affluent diets do. The book that details these findings is called "The China Study," and it's worth reading.

On the basis of this study, and from his own research into protein and calcium levels that affected cancer tumors, Dr. Campbell now is a vegetarian.

Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn both have had success in reversing heart disease caused by high cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and both say that a low-fat diet will lower both, often enough to keep you from heart disease completely.

Not everyone can reverse heart disease through diet and exercise, but most of us can, and all of us can stop the progression of heart disease through diet and exercise, even if it has to include a cholesterol-lowering drug.

It certianly worked for me. My doctor wanted me to lower my cholesterol and triglycerides, I used Dean Ornish's suggestions, and my cholesterol and triglycerides went a long way down. He's happy, I'm happy.

I just had an extensive series of tests, and my arteries are very clear and my heart is strong, and my doctor is satisfied.

Now, how do we do this?

It will require a change in your lifestyle. If your lifestyle has got you to a point of needing to lower your cholesterol and triglycerides, then you have to change your lifestyle, right?

Change it away from what you have been doing to what you need to do, and that is to eat only vegetables, beans, fruit, and grains.

Now, from your username, am I right in believing that you are probably Indian? If so, you have a great way to start doing this--dal.

(It's not fair that so many peoples have a cuisine so distinctive and delightful. Indian food has to be some of the best in the world. What do we Americans have, MacDonald's? It's a bit better than that, of course, but I think I could live on Indian food quite happily)

Dal--if you make it without oil and stay away from the naan bread--is a very low-fat food. There are many great bean recipes that have no cholesterol in them and very little fat, and that will help bring your cholesterol down. Eat a lot of vegetables and you will be much better off than if you ate meat.

We have known since 1905 that eating animal products raises our cholesterol levels. It's only recently that we have found just how damaging this is to us. So if we put these facts together, we see what we have to do.

Look on the Internet for vegetarian recipes. Learn how to cook low-fat meals, Look for recipes that others have praised and make those.

But don't eat too much. It is possible to be a vegetarian and still have high triglycerides if you eat too much and eat too much sugar.

Find out how much you would like to weigh. What will that be in pounds (it's 2.2 pounds per kilogram)? Whatever number that is, multiply that by ten and that's how many calories you should eat each day. It will probably be around 1400-1500 calories. That won't seem like enough at first, but you will get used to it, and it will work just fine. It may take you three months to get used to it, but you will.

And exercise. that will lower your LDL cholesterol numbers and raise your HDL cholesterol level, which you want to do.

Cholesterol is odd and funny stuff. It is not a fat. It's actually a solid alcohol, but it won't mix with water, which means that it won't mix with blood. So your liver surrounds it with a protein (hence the name "lipoprotein" in Low Density Lipoprotein) so it'll go places in your bloodstream. LDL cholesterol has around it a protein that will deposit itself inside the walls of your blood vessels, so the cholesterol goes there, too.

Your HDL has a protein that will carry it back to the liver for recycling, which means that it will more or less "scavange" cholesterol from your bloodstream. You want that to happen, so you want to raise your HDL levels.

Exercise.

Yes, 40 minutes a day of brisk walking will help a lot, and you don't need to do it all at once. You could do it in four ten-minute walks or two twenty-minute walks. But guess what: the faster you go, the more help your exercise gives you. Do you really wan tto raise your HDL levels? Then eventually start running.

Don't start all at once, and don't start too soon. Start walking, and after a few weeks, walk some and jog some. Then a couple of weeks later, walk some and jog more. Increase this slowly so you don't injure yourself (it's really easy to do. I've been running for years and I can still do it) and have to stop for a few weeks.

It's mentally harder to start over again than it is to begin.

What will all this do? You will lose weight, your cholesterol will go down, your triglycerides will go down, you'll have more energy, you'll probably be a happier person (I feel really relaxed after a run of from five to seven miles--that's about 9 to 11 kilometers), you'll be stronger, and your heart rate will drop as your heart becomes stronger.

You will lose that tummy, too. It won't become hard or anything unless you exercise it with crunches or situps or something, but it will become smaller.

Depending on how much you lose, your feet, ankles, and knees will feel better, too. I have had many people tell me that after they lost 20 pounds (what, about 8 kilos?) they felt so much better and their knees didn't hurt any more.

There is much more to say about this--2 grams of fish oil a day helps raise HDL levels, a low dose (35-50 milligrams) of Nicotinic Acid (a form of the vitamin Niacin. Don't bother with Niacinamide. It doesn't work on cholesterol) lowers LDL cholesterol, but if you do this, keep this dose LOW because it can irritate the liver in higher doses.

And if your doctor recommends a statin drug like lovastatin, take it. It will help.

But the best things you can do are cheap or even free. It doesn't cost much to walk 40 minutes a day. It doesn't cost much to eat right and eat less. Do these things and you will go a long way to lowering yoru cholesterol and triglycerides so much that you will never have to worry about a heart attack.