Heightened levels of cholesterol and/or triglycerides can seriously damage your health. Both of these substances, if found in increased amounts may lead to development of different heart diseases as well as some pancreas problems.
What's Helpful?
Healthy diet and regular exercise may improve these problems and your medical condition. However, remember to be moderate. Some everyday exercise may come a long way and help you to reduce your body weight and levels of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood. Body Mass Index or BMI may help you if you don’t know if your weight is healthy or not.
Proper diet is not something you can turn to from time to time. In order to maintain healthy weight and control triglycerides in the blood you have to stick to it for the rest of your life. Prepare for that and ask for some help. Consult your doctor and dietitian and ask everything you want to know. In the meantime, here are several diet rules for people suffering from high blood triglycerides.
What to Eat?
Plenty of vegetables and fruits are always good for the body. You can eat as much vegetables as you like, since there are no limitations, even if you do have high cholesterol and/or triglycerides. Make sure you steam the veggies or use them boiled or just slightly fried with some unsaturated vegetable oil. Some vegetables, like celery, broccoli, cauliflower and string beans could be used every single day.
Three servings of fruits every day will also benefit your triglycerides level. However, avoid some sweetened or syrup fruits.
Omega 3 Fatty Acids and Unsaturated Vegetable Oils
Also, always remember to use only unsaturated vegetable oils, such as sunflower, soybean, corn, cottonseed or olive oil. Food rich in omega 3 fatty acids will also be beneficial, since these are proven to positively affect level of triglycerides in the blood. Flax seeds and fish oil are known to have plenty of good omega 3 fats.
Fish and lean meats are also recommended for patients diagnosed with high triglycerides. Haddock, pacific salmon, sardines, chicken, turkey, veal and non-fatty beef may be your choices of proteins if you have heightened triglycerides. Just don’t use more than one serving of meat per week. Egg whites are also full of proteins and great for this diet, but stay away from egg yolks. Two egg yolks won’t be a problem, but more than this will be.
Things to Avoid
Drinks sweetened with sugar are something you don’t need, as well as full fat milk and dairy products. Instead, use sugar substitutes, skimmed milk or even non-fat dried milk and milk products.
Stay away from alcohol, because it also gets processed into triglycerides by the liver.
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