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?Follow These Tips to Reduce Harmful Triglycerides
- 7:33, 6th September 2018
- Test Organization
- General Health and Happiness
- Triglycerides
You might think that high triglycerides are not harmful, but they pose a danger to your heart as severe as that of bad cholesterol. Hence, keeping a track of triglycerides level is as important as knowing about your good or bad cholesterol numbers.
An understanding of the triglyceride numbers
According to most doctors, the triglyceride number should be ideally under 150 and the more it increases, the more health risks you will be facing.
# The normal level of triglyceride should be less than 150 mg/dL.
# Even if it increases, the borderline limit is between 150 to 198 mg/dL.
# If the level crosses 200 mg/dL, it poses a serious threat and in cases of over 500 mg/dL, it is way too high and should be immediately addressed to.
Not only heart disease, high triglyceride paves way for diabetes, obesity, kidney and thyroid diseases.
Steps to keep the level of triglyceride at bay
The first and foremost thing is to get in the habit of maintaining a proper diet. Excessive intake of calories is totally uncalled for as the extra calorie gets transformed to triglycerides and gets stored in the fat cells.
1. The saturated fats and the trans fats that are most commonly found in fast foods, animal products, and commercially baked items should be consumed in fewer amounts.
2. It is advisable to use olive oil or canola oil for cooking as these oils have healthy monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats in them.
3. Get your necessary calorie intake from vegetables, fruits, and low-fat dairy products.
4. Consume fish like salmon and other coldwater fish twice a week as a protein source. The omega-3 fatty acids in them help to lower the triglyceride level.
5. Include whole-grain products and lots of fiber in your diet.
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