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Triglycerides
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Summary:
A triglyceride is a fat...for the most part. Your triglyceride level is considered by some to be a marker of your relative risk of heat disease. High triglycerides are supposedly something you do not want. Lowering triglycerides is easy to do with diet.
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Triglycerides
Triglycerides play an important role in metabolism as energy sources and transporters of dietary fat. They contain more than twice as much energy (9 kcal/g) as carbohydrates and proteins. If you have too much of that in your bloodstream, it's considered a health risk especially for heart disease.
Normal triglycerides are considered to be less than 150 mg/dl (milligrams per deciliter). Borderline high is between 150 and 199 and high risk is over 200.
Lower triglycerides can be achieved by dietary modification, but what needs to be done usually makes little sense to traditional doctors and to the public, who have been brainwashed with passe information. Traditional physicians consider that moderating the consumption of fats, alcohol and carbohydrates and partaking of aerobic exercise are considered essential to reducing triglyceride levels. They're only part right.
Triglyceride Diet
High triglycerides can be lowered easily by reducing the amount of carbohydrates you are eating. It's that simple. A low carb diet along with the use of Omega-3 fatty acids from fish, flax seed oil or other sources, (up to 3g per day), Omega-6 fatty acids, one or more grams of niacin (mega-dose vitamin B-3) per day lower triglyceride levels.
For more information about the 2 best diets to achieve lower triglycerides and lower cholesterol levels, please click here on "Cholesterol Diet".
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