Triglycerides

What are the different types of fats and which ones to avoid for high cholesterol and triglycerides?

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1. salmon (omega 3 fatty acids) and avocado are the good fats. shrimp, egg yolks, liver, fried foods, cheese and butter are the ones you want to avoid.
2. The fats that are healthy are: Fish oil, we recieve omega 3 fats, this is good and considered a healthy choice to consume fish at least 2 times per week. Consider supplementing daily with either fish oil or, in the winter months Cod Liver Oil, which provides the needed vitamin D as well. When using oils unheated the best oil to use is Extra Virgin Olive Oil however if using for cooking the best oil would be Coconut Oil. When heated most fats become toxic excepting Coconut Oil. The fat from walnuts and flax seed are also healthy, as well as Avacodos. The fats to avoid would be animal fats, most heated fats and oils that have been processed. You can read more about this at;
3. AVOID all soy products and canola. These are very bad oils for many reasons. The first is that most of them are now GMO (genetically modified organisms). Soy products, unless they are fermented, slow the thyroid down and cause weight gain and organs to not function properly, inhibit mineral absorption, especially iron (this is why many vegetarians are anemic), and can cause you to not grow to your optimum height. Canola is 100x more toxic than soy and contains acids that are very bad for you, especially the way they refine this oil causes trans fat even though they advertise it otherwise. Stick with olive oil, wanut oil, palm oil, coconut oil (very high in lauric acid that is very good for you), avocado oil, grape seed extract oil. Butter is not bad for you! It is a monosaccharide and your body disgests it just fine. Don't listen to the margarine people because margarine is made from oils that are hydrogenated and clog your arteries. Stay away from any foods that are labeled "vegetable oils" because these are most likely soy or canola, the cheap oils. If you don't believe this, just look at the way heart disease has increased with the introduction of these oils and margarines into our food supply. The United States now has 75% of all deaths due to heart disease. Then look at societies where heart disease is very rare where they eat a lot of saturated fats! The eskimoes? There are good saturated fats and bad ones. Avoid commercial beef products you buy in grocery stores. The Angus cows are fed grain in big feed lots and this causes the cows to be sick, so they feed them antibiotics and hormones to fatten them up creating marbeling (fat) in the meat. This fat contains about 20:1 omega 6 to omega 3 fatty acids. Terrible for you. Grass fed cows are different. The saturated fats are good for you. They are high in omega 3 fatty acids and low in omega 6 fatty acids. Our food supply, thanks to so called experts, has been really messed up because they are more interested in producing food that is easy for the farmer to grow, easier to distribute because it doesn't spoil easily, and puts money into big corporate coffers, but is not designed for health. We have lost 50% of the nutrients that used to be there just 25 years ago. The seed companies like Monsanto are not our friends and the insecticides that are produced from nerve gas is not good for you, no matter how much money the promoters spend on trying to convince us. I've never heard of anyone being deficient in insecticides, growth hormones, or antibiotics. To avoid high cholesterol (LDL and LDL2), you need to have good functioning liver & gall bladder. Stay completely away from drugs of all kinds because they compromise your liver and the liver will not produce the bile and bicarbonate correctly and you will get bad cholesterol problems. Eat the best oils, not the garbage ones, protect your liver & gall bladder, and you will not have the high cholesterol problems. By the way, cholesterol is only a small part of the problem. Has you doctor tested you for coronary calcium? That is more important than cholesterol in regard to health of your arteries and heart. If he hasn't, I believe you should be asking him why not? Does he really understand what causes heart disease?
4. People are still arguing about the role of dietary fat and health. For every claim you can find a counter-claim. Fats are essential to the human diet, but many people think we eat too much of the wrong kind. Generally, dietary fats are divided into three categories: saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated. These divisions are based on the number of hydrogen atoms in the fat, or lipid, molecule. The process of hydrogenation takes an unsaturated fat and adds hydrogens to it; it can change the conformation of the molecule to create what is called a trans fat, which rarely occurs naturally. Trans fats have no place in the human diet. You should never eat them. http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4776 Each type of dietary fat (including oil) has different proportions of the three basic types. (Only artifically processed food have trans fats.) Unsaturated fats, especially monounsaturated, are currently considered to be the healthiest; olive and peanut oil are good examples. Saturated fats are considered to be least healthy. These are usually solid at room temperature. Examples are butter, coconut oil, and fats from meat and poultry. Here is a chart: http://www.nutristrategy.com/fatsoils.htm Oily fish are a good source of healthy oils and they also are a source of omega-3 fatty acids, which can improve heart health http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4632 Most dietary fats are triglycerides, because they have three (tri-) chains of fatty acids hanging off something called glycerol. The triglycerides in your blood are created by your own body from what you eat, and are different. Cholesterol is not a triglyceride, but is related to them biologically. It is also essential for life, since it is present in all of your tissues. Your body can make it, and you can get it in your diet. Here is a table of the ten most common sources of cholesterol: http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/report/HTML/table_e18.htm When you get your blood tested, one of things your doctor looks for are ratios of certain molecules, the HDLs (high-density lipoproteins) and LDLs (low-density lipoproteins). HDL is supposed to be "good"; LDL is supposed to be "bad". More sophisticated testing looks at the size of the molecules. Here is a simple overview: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002468.htm Remember that keeping yourself at a healthy weight and getting plenty of exercise is also important.