high triglycerides

confused-dazed

hi all
i've just been told i have high triglycerides and was wondering what eskimo oil is and is it any good for treating triglycerides.
any help or advice would be greatly appreciated

EileenG

Clean up your diet. High triglycerides is very strongly associated with refined carbs. Cut out all sugar, white flour, transfats, processed food in general, box breakfast cereal, all juices (eat the whole fruit). Eat plenty of green vegetables, oily fish, fresh meat, eggs (they are good for you) and some nuts and seeds.

Fish oil is a good supplement, and Eskimo oil is a good brand.

Intothesea

Hello there. A diet that follows Eileen's outline paired with
good supplements (unsaturated fats: pure fish oils, nut
oils etc.) and exercise will help bring it all back under
control. Here's a pretty good page on the potential causes
and effects of high triglyceride levels:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/triglycerides/CL00015

Eating smaller, more regular meals (6 per day) and doing
some light exercise within a 2-hour window (ideally 45
mins to one hour) after each meal will help keep both
blood-sugar and insulin levels on an even keel, as will
cutting out or down on major sugar-contributors and
stressors (alcohol, refined sugar, stimulants like coffee
and cigarettes, actual stress), which is good news for
all blood-fats.

Has your doctor recommended a low carbohydrate diet?
Did he give any ideas on how he thought you should go
about this?

confused-dazed

i dont eat any veg what so ever, never have and probably never will.
the only thing the doctor recommened was to make an appointment to see the dietician and to eat plenty of mackeral and tuna that was it basically.

EileenG

confused-dazed wrote: »

i dont eat any veg what so ever, never have and probably never will.

I suggest you start. It doesn't have to be horrible and boring. You can cook your vegetables in olive oil and garlic, and topping things like broccoli with tomato sauce actually improves the amount of nutrients you can absorb from them. Boil some cauliflower, top with grated cheese and brown under the grill.

If you eat any sort of junk at all (and that includes things like box breakfast cereals and white bread, not just takeaways and McDonalds) then you have to balance it with plenty of vegetables. or you face a lifetime of bad health and a daily cocktail of drugs.

Intothesea

Ah okay, your doctor didn't give you bad advice but I think
the thin-edge of the information wedge is a lot in evidence in
doctors' offices around the world. I've seen it myself and with
the way family members have been treated: just enough
information to make you not realise how serious things can
get unless taken on with a consistent and knowledgable hand.

The dietician will probably hand over a few lists of items to eat,
and you might be lucky enough to get one who gives a good
hint as to why it has to be done, but more often than not
patients are left in the dark about the exact mechanics of
*why* they need to change what they've been doing their
whole lives (as you say about the vegetables). Information
is the antidote to rushed hospital services I think, you can
educate yourself on the unquantifiable positive benefits of
vegetables and the body as a system that you can treat
with food-as-medicine and exercise. As Eileen indicates,
many's a health disaster story could be avoided with these
sorts of measures.

Here's a good fruit-and-vegetable primer It probably feels
like vegetables will always be inedible, but the tastebuds can
be persueded, especially when you're up on the nutritional
value of the same.

http://www.helpwithcooking.com/healthy-eating/fruit-vegetables.html

Good luck

menoscemo

Op, I know where your coming from. I ate little vegetables and thought I never would. I think it goes back to childhood and being forced to eat vegetables when you didn't want to.
I have been gradually wheening myself onto vegetables recently. First with tomatoes (if like me you like ketchup or tomato sauce on pasta you actually will like tomatoes amazingly), them cucumber, turnip, parsnips etc. Now I even eat Broccolli everyday :eek: I never thought I would. I couldn't even stand to look at the stuff for 28 years. I thought it would taste all leafy and ugghh. But I tried it one day and now I love the stuff.
I can promise you one thing- if you start to eat vegetables everyday after never eating them before, you will notice that your skin will noticeably improve within a month.