Do you have a lipid disorder? With cholesterol and fatty acids and hypertension, the medical terminology can be confusing, to say the least. A “lipid disorder” is just a blanket term for high cholesterol and triglycerides, meaning that you have too many fatty substances in your body, which puts you at risk for heart disease, heart attacks, coronary artery disease and a stroke. This may all sound like bad news, but you can still live many healthy and happy years if you’re willing to make a few dietary sacrifices and take medication.

To get your triglycerides and cholesterol back down to a normal level, you will have to make some dietary changes. For people who have high cholesterol levels from eating too many fattening foods, cholesterol lowering can be accomplished by as much as 10-20% from dieting alone. Reducing calories to 1,200-1,500 for women and 1,500-1,800 for men will help you lose 2 pounds per week. When losing weight, you shouldn’t drink more than one serving of alcohol per day and you should be ingesting eight cups of water daily. Adding just 30 minutes of exercise per day, either all at once or in 3 intervals of 10 minutes, can work wonders for heart health.

Each day you should be ingesting 3-4 low fat dairy servings, like 1% milk or yogurt, 2-4 fruit servings including juice, 3-5 vegetable servings (of ½ cup or more), 6-11 bread servings, which includes pasta and rice and 6-8 fat/oil servings (choosing olive oil, canola oil or peanut oil, low fat salad dressing and miracle whip instead of mayo). Diet experts recommend adding fish oils to your weekly intake, whether it’s a daily fish oil supplement or salmon and tuna several times a week. As a satisfying snack, you can try a handful of nuts, raisins, a cup of tea or hot cocoa and a yogurt smoothie. By following these simple tips, your cholesterol and triglycerides levels should lower in no time at all!

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