triglycerides?

Answer 1

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Triglycerides are the main form of fat stored by your body. They actually come from fats in the diet, or from the sugar fructose, or from other simple carbohydrates. Fructose especially is transported to the liver and converted to triglyceride and stored, but most carbs not needed when eaten are turned into triglycerides.

The best way to lower triglycerides is exercise. Walking and/or running, the cardio exercises, will lower triglycerides by using them and by raising calorie needs so that whatever carbs are eaten are used and not stored.

There is at least one food product that can help raise HDL and lower triglyceride levels: taking fish oil every day, or eating cold-water ocean fish a couple of times a week.

Now, triglycerides have a slightly counterintuitive characteristic to them: they will drop if you eat a low-fat diet for longer than six months. A few years ago, in a head-to-head comparison of four popular diets, including Ornish (high-carb, low-fat) and Atkins (low-carb, high-fat), found that, while at the beginning triglyceride levels go down with Atkins and up with Ornish, after about six months, on the Ornish diet triglyceride levels drop lower than the other diets, including Atkins.

It isn't just carbs that are the problem. It's the combination of fats, carbs, and exercise. I've eaten Ornish for years and have a very low triglyceride count, and this is the rule for people on the Ornish diet.

But the major factors are weight and exercise even more than the kind of diet. Lose weight and exercise a lot, and your triglyceride levels will drop. You will be healthier.

That means to cut down on the calories you eat. Take a look at this page:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070920122209.htm

Cutting calories will do far more for us than any one diet.

Answer 2

Elevated triglyceride levels can increase risk factors for heart disease and stroke. Omega-3 fatty acids have been shown to reduce triglyercide levels. Taking an omega-3 supplement, or eating more fish -- which happen to contain high amounts of omega-3s may be effective. Doctors may perscribe a medicine known as Lovaza which is a highly concentrated form of omega-3 fatty acids. Tricor is also used to lower tryglyceride levels, but lowers triglycerides through a different means than Lovaza.

Answer 3

A triglyceride is three fatty acids attached to a glycerol molecule. The fatty acids can polyunsaturated, monounsaturated or saturated. This is the form fat is stored in the body and main form of fat being transported. It doesn't matter if the fat is dietary or produced by the liver. Another term often used is triacylglycerols.

Unfortunately when you get a blood test done the term triglyceride is incorrectly used. It is in reference to a Very Low Density Lipoprotein (VLDL) These contain a higher percentage of triglycerides to cholesterol. VLDLs are produced in the liver and only contain fat produced by the liver from excess blood sugars. Dietary fat has no influence on them whatsoever

Answer 4

Otheriwise known as fats....fats are made of fatty acids and glycerol so a triglyceride is a form of fat...

Answer 5

is part of your cholesterol count total. If elevated, they usually check for diabetes. It means that one hasn't been watching their carbs too well. (diabetics)