Triglycerides - Cholesterol and triglycerides?

Cholesterol and triglycerides?

Today, we went to this festival of health in chicago and they were doing free test for blood pressure and blood test. My mom got high of the "bad" cholesterol and high of triglycerides. Also, she got low of the "good" cholesterol. She is kind of overweight and she wants to know how to lower the "bad" cholesterol and triglycerides, and raise the "good" cholesterol. She also got bad on the blood pressure. Also, she doesn't want to use pills. Any ways she could to lower the "bad" cholesterol and triglycerides and raise the "good" cholesterol and to lower the blood pressure???? Also, could you make a list of foods with bad cholesterol and good cholesterol? and her total cholesterol was like 272. is that bad? oops. i asked and the total cholesterol was 227 not 272.

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272 is realllly bad. Cholesterol should be under 200. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cholesterol/CL00002 to lower your blood pressure, stay away from excess sodium, most frozen dinners have a TON of sodium. adding salt to food is another way. drink lots of water to flush out your body. good luck!
If your mom is overweight with high cholesterol, blood pressure and triglycerides, she just might need a pill or two. There are many things she can do to help herself but a comprehensive list of foods is too much here. She can go on-line and read a lot about that. In general, reduce fat altogether, and eliminate animal fat. Eliminate trans fat also. Use only monounsaturated oils like olive oil, and that in very small amounts. No more fried foods. Use no fat everything, like milk, cheese, yogurt. Try a high fiber diet, and I mean really high fiber, like 30-35 grams a day or more. That will help cholesterol, maybe....For blood pressure, never add any salt to any food and keep total sodium intake to 2-3 grams total for a 24 hr period. I'm telling you that but your mom needs to see a doctor and have blood work done before she decides to take that up. Your mom also needs to exercise and loose weight. If she does all that she MIGHT be able to avoid pills but there is nothing evil about taking medicine if it eliminates risk of heart disease. Good to hear you participated in the health fair.
Don't worry about the cholesterol level. The only bad cholesterol is oxidized cholesterol. That is cholesterol cooked at high temperatures or powdered animal products like powdered milk, powdered cheese, powdered eggs, found in a lot of process (junk food). Reduce the sugar in the diet. Anyone over 40 pounds of weight has high insulin levels. Insulin is the fat storing hormone. Carbohydrates increases your insulin levels. She needs to reduce the carbohydrates (i.e. sugar, starch, bread, grains) in her diet. Reducing the carbohydrates will lower her insulin levels and normalize her leptin levels. Leptin is the hormone that makes you feel full after eating. A high carbohydrate diet raises insulin, triglycerides, cholesterol, inflammation, etc.). High triglycerides reduces leptin signals in the brain that says "I'm full." So the more carbs you eat the longer it takes to feel full. http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/uncategorized/leptin-low-carb-and-hunger/ http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/inflammation/inflammation-and-diet/ A quote from Dr. Michael Eades M.D. - "The low-fat diet has never, ever been shown to be the optimal diet. It was all an hypothesis to begin with. It sounded like a good thing, so based on virtually no evidence the nutritional establishment began issuing edicts that to be healthy everyone should restrict the amount of fat they eat. We’ve all been part of a giant experiment, the hypothesis of which is that the low-fat diet is good for us, for the last 25 years. And what have we learned from this giant national experiment? Well, obesity has more than doubled, type II diabetes is now at epidemic proportions, the incidence of cardiovascular disease hasn’t declined and we’re, in general, a much less healthy lot. If you want to see the shoddy science (or even the lack of any science, shoddy or otherwise) that went into the formulation of the low-fat scheme we’ve all been enmeshed in, read Gary Taubes’ article “The Soft Science of Dietary Fat“, which was published a few years ago in Science, America’s most prestigious and influential scientific journal." http://www.nasw.org/awards/2001/01Taubesarticle1.htm Among postmenopausal women, a low-fat dietary pattern did not result in a statistically significant reduction in invasive breast cancer risk over an 8.1-year average follow-up period. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/295/6/629 Over a mean of 8.1 years, a dietary intervention that reduced total fat intake and increased intakes of vegetables, fruits, and grains did not significantly reduce the risk of CHD, stroke, or CVD . http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/295/6/655 In this study, a low-fat dietary pattern intervention did not reduce the risk of colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women during 8.1 years of follow-up. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/295/6/643
For Both: 1) reduce the amount of salt in her diet 2) regular exercise (walking is good) 3) reduce the amount of fat in her diet; more fish & chicken than red meat 4) get rid of any junk food Ignore the answer referring to "primary sources". "Lisa" is a person that posts under multiple names and doesn't know what a primary source is. A primary source is a medical article reporting the results of a study. It is NOT a book containing citations of the articles.