Triglycerides

What causes high Trigycerides and low HDL?

Every one "knows" that a high fat diet negatively effects our blood lipid profile. So should Dr Roger Blumenthal (Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Baltimore, MD) be sacked for this misleading statement? 'The "low-fat-diet message" has also become ingrained in recent decades, and this may have led to greater consumption of sweets and carbohydrates, which would also tend to drive up triglyceride levels and decrease HDL' Carbohydrates causing high triglycerides and low HDL. Surely not?

Public Comments

1. it is the chemical membranes in the nucleus of the cell matter of the glandular which contributes to the trigycerides invasion of the coronary tract.
2. 80% of your Cholesterol is manufactured by your body regardless of what you eat. According to the drug companies, God made a mistake when he designed the human body. I'm somewhat skeptical of the Cholesterol scare as mankind has been on a high fat diet for thousands of years. Is only since the 50's that stroke and heart attacks have become an epidemic. They used to be an old man's disease and now everyone is having them. A probable culprit is Trans Fat which is still in lots of fast food. McDonalds, KFC, etc announced that they no longer fry with it but it is still in many of the other foods that they sell.
3. Bad carbos, like bread, causes a high release of insulin to balance get rid of the blood sugar bread creates. Insulin stores it as fat, and eating too much fat is stored as fat. Yes, you're right about carbs. A bagel is one of the worst foods to eat, it's like eating 5 candy bars. You need protein, carbs and fat. I wouldn't eat red meat because of the LDLs, and only 4 ounces a meal, and I wouldn't eat simple carbs but complex ones like whole wheat bread, veggies and fruit and not fruit juices. Then I would only eat good fat like olive oil and only 6 teaspoons at a meal. Check out the Zone diet, it's a great diet for people like you. It really breaks things down.
4. Carbohydrates break down into triglycerides and can lead to formation of LDL. High triglycerides will ultimately cause high LDL. This will tend to lower the HDL to LDL ratio which is the real indicator of risk rather than HDL and LDL levels individually. Most of the problem occurs via liver metabolism in the mevalonic acid biosynthesis to cholesterol. Factors such as stress and lower blood pH cause cholesterol deposition onto the artery walls. The HDL to LDL ratios, triglyceride levels and cholesterol levels are only a part of the big picture. Dietary considerations are minor unless the patient is eating extremely high amounts of saturated fats and carbohydrates. It should be noted that carbohydrates break down into acetate which in turn goes through beta oxidation and then on into the mevalonic acid biogenesis of cholesterol. So for example: lets compare margarine to butter. Butter is 60% cholesterol and margarine is 0%. If you use a small amount of butter, you are eating a small amount of cholesterol. On the other hand, if you use a very large amount of margarine, you are eating no cholesterol. However, the excess fatty acids you are eating get turned into acetate and end up as cholesterol. In effect you are eacting cholesterol when eating margarine. So, there are a lot of myths about dietary intake of fatty acids and their relationships to heart disease. The answer is to eat reasonably, exercise frequently and to do things that lower stress.