Triglycerides

What's the Connection Between Diabetes and Triglycerides?

That high Cholesterol is bad for us is something we all know and live with today, but what with triglycerides?

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1. High triglycerides are caused by excessive carbohydrate intake... the same thing that causes type two diabetes. Interesting, huh? Even more interesting is, if you adopt a low carb, high nutrient diet, not only do your triglycerides go down, so does the insulin resistance that causes type two diabetes. Now isn't that cool?
2. Triglycerides is another form of fat in the blood, which may also play a significant role in heart disease, particularly in areas such as insulin resistance, which can lead to and worsen type 2 diabetes, and the premature and aggressive heart disease associated with diabetes. The fat we eat is stored in our fat cells as triglycerides. Under normal circumstances, it is released as needed into the blood to provide energy for our muscles. But if we are overweight or insulin-resistant, or we don't make enough insulin, we may have more triglycerides in the blood than is healthy. This happens, in part, because when we don't have sufficient insulin, our fat cells tend to spill a building block of triglycerides (fatty acids) into the bloodstream.