subject: Lowering Triglycerides: Your Guide [print this page] What if you found out that you can use simple changes to dramatically increase your quality of health? Elevated levels of triglycerides have been known to cause stroke, pancreatitis, and heart disease, but you can prevent all of this by keeping your triglycerides in the norm. More information on that to follow.
Developing a healthy lifestyle can really help. choose the stairs and skip the elevator. Park farther away at the mall, or basically anywhere. When heading home after work, instead of driving, ride a bike, or if you're closer walk.Little changes go a long way if they're consistent. The amount of fat in your body has been linked to elevated triglycerides. Adding a bit of extra activity on a regular basis can help because simply moving around more can burn body fat.
Now some people will exercise, but also increase their food consumption. This does no good. You need to make changes to your diet for it to work. Cook with canola oil. Stay away from fast food. Eat more meals at home. Eat certain foods like salmon, flax seed and similar omega-3 rich foods. Incorporating more fruits and vegetables, nuts and grains into your diet is also a key step. The issue is that certain foods will actually create higher levels of triglycerides, and other foods will actually cut down on them. Stick to the ones that cut those levels down.
Related to diet, eating too much food is just as bad as eating the wrong foods. You can trick your body to eat less by drinking more water. The water will occupy space in your stomach thus making you feel full faster. Plus water is good for you. This translates into cascading success. The faster you become full, the less you eat. Lowered food consumption means less fat stored. Less fat means lowered triglyceride levels. A common rule of thumb is to drink 8-10 glasses per day of water. You can use this trick to dramatically help with your food consumption.
Another choice that has compounding benefits is eating the following foods:Milk, chicken, eggs, carrots, nuts and mushrooms. These foods contain the vitamin B3, which has been shown to increase metabolism. This helps burn more fat, and burned fat means lower triglycerides.
Some do's and don'ts. Do eat more meals, up to five, maybe more if possible per day. Do only eat when you're hungry. Finally don't eat when you're not hungry. Don't eat fast food and junk food.
You can lower your triglycerides quite effectively by following this simple advice.
