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If your triglyceride level (188 mg / dl) is slightly above the reference values (up to 150 mg / dl), the strict diet is highly effective and can be a very good alternative for treating high triglycerides. Generally the effectiveness of the diet is reflected in the term of 3 months.

If after this period of time not triglycerides down to normal, the doctor may consider the need to prescribe drugs to treat hypertriglyceridemia. Fibrates are usually one of the drugs chosen by doctors to treat the condition.

Do not forget to include foods rich in omega 3 fatty acids in the diet to reduce high triglycerides. You can also consider herbs, with which you can prepare tea for hypertriglyceridemia.

Remember that physical activity is an important pillar for reducing triglycerides.

* Keep order in your meals. No matter how complicated your schedule, you can always organize. You should eat every 3-4 hours or a main meal (breakfast, lunch or dinner) or snack (mid-morning snack or other required)
* Includes fruit and vegetables in your diet every day. The fruit can be dessert, main meals or rather, serve as a snack between meals. The vegetables must be present at lunch and dinner first course or accompaniment. Fruits and vegetables “dilute” the calories in your diet while you provide fiber, vitamins and a huge amount of phytonutrients with very beneficial properties to health.
* Reduce fat in your diet. Reduce fatty foods, chopped or pasta products, particularly animal fats because they contribute more saturated. Opt for lean meats or steak (no fat). Eat more fish, white and blue. Moderate consumption of hard cheese or cured and increased consumption of fresh cheese. If you like chocolate, avoid industrial cakes with frosting or filling, choose best one ounce of chocolate.
* Use cooking methods that require varied and less oil or fat. The oven, the foil, on the grill, steam or stew with less oil. Use spices to add flavor, you’ll find there are many flavors you like and amaze you.
* Hydrate with water. Moderate consumption of alcohol or sugary drinks has more calories. Moderate drinking of light.
* Mobilize. Avoid the couch. Needless to join the gym if you want. Find activities you like, stroll along the beach, park or forest. Do not take elevators or escalators. Do it gradually, anything goes. If you have time the weekend is a good time. Do it with attitude, not like an imposition.

Does it serve the same weight loss regimen for everyone?

No. It is not the same as having 30 years to 50. It is not the same as having hypertension, high cholesterol or any other deterioration in health, to be a healthy person. It is not the same being sedentary to make 2, 4 or 10 hours of sport per week. There is an athlete like another.

That is, the diet must be considered and adapted to your age, your schedule, your likes and dietary choices (within the nutritional balance), your health and your level of energy expenditure.
Do you need pills or envelopes?

Really a well-balanced weight loss regimen does not need pills or envelopes. It can be done only with food; you need to want to learn.

To the extent that we succeed in changing dietary habits, the greater our success in maintaining weight loss.
Protein diets, based on offer downs of high weight in no time.

* Alarming overuse of kidneys and liver.
* A shortage of carbohydrates in the diet triggers a series of mechanisms in our body focused on “destroy” our muscle to get sugar through the protein. The loss of muscle mass means a slower metabolism and this fact is to blame for leaving the diet has a tendency to gain weight even more than we had before starting it.
* Carbohydrates, specifically glucose, are the fuel of our cells so that this lack in the diet triggers another effect in addition to the above, which is the formation of ketones from fat.
Entering ketosis so important organs like the brain begin to feed on a fuel that is not the usual physiological causes great changes in our body that produce apathy, fatigue, malaise and nausea.
* With ketosis our body fluids become more acidic (metabolic acidosis) so you can alter the nervous system and failure of contractility of cardiac fibers. There have been reports of sudden death and ketone commas.
These include here that the protein diet without carbohydrates are used in clinic in controlling episodes of severe epilepsy, as this acidification stabilizes the membranes of neurons by slowing the brain’s response, it is harmful in healthy people and the consequences depend on the susceptibility of each individual.
* The protein ditas are more susceptible to developing chronic diseases due to the lowering of body fluid pH (acidity)
* The desire of our body to get glucose through protein leads to a poor utilization of some essential nutrients such as certain amino acids. This coupled with the scarcity of fruits and vegetables, will result in deficiency diseases.
* The composition of major food protein in the diet usually has considerable amounts of fat and no fiber, which then increase levels of uric acid, cholesterol and triglycerides.
* Constipation will become apparent almost from the first week on the most ditas protein, not only by the shortage of fiber, but by changes in the intestinal flora.

If it is necessary to limit carbohydrates and increase protein to force the weight loss (very common in overweight people who are soon to undergo surgery) protein diets can be carried out safely.

* Followed only by two or three days.
* In these cases we should avoid just the pasta, rice, bread and potatoes, keeping one or two pieces of fruit a day (preferably breakfast and mid-morning) and never without restricting the vegetables, which should be abundant in the diet. It should include a serving of bread at breakfast, after overnight fasting because the body needs an extra intake of carbohydrates.
* Subject to increase the dietary protein is necessary to increase water intake to 2 liters per day (water purifying and herbal teas) in this way help the kidneys perform their function of excretion.

Protein diets are trendy but it is very important to know as well as its potential benefits, what are the risks and what precautions to take.
When one considers that a diet is protein?

Protein diets are characterized by a predominance of protein foods (fermented milk such as cheese or yogurt, eggs, meats, seafood and meats) or replacement of foods rich in protein (bars, shakes and other preparations)

Protein in the diets of carbohydrates such as sugars, bread, pasta, potatoes, rice or other grains are completely excluded from the diet and usually also severely limit the servings of vegetables, mostly vegetables and fruit (to be rich in fructose , a sugar)
Its objectives

When weight loss protein diets are a quick way but very dangerous for health and few lasting results.

With the rapid weight loss diet is protein but only in the short term because the weight is recovered in record time to abandon the diet for physiological or psychological reasons (such as anxiety)

Just over half of Spanish (54%) maintain an adequate diet based on the traditional Mediterranean diet, rich in olive oil, plant foods and fish, compared with 40 percent whose diet is poor quality and therefore improved, to the president of the Spanish Nutrition Foundation (FEN), Gregorio Varela, during his participation in the XIII National Conference of Nutrition Practice, organized by Dietecom Spain, being held in Madrid.

According to this expert, now has increased “dramatically” the consumption of meat and meat products at the same time has lowered the vegetables and grains, which has caused the current diet of Mediterranean countries “does not seem at all “that fifty years ago, became popular for its simplicity and high health benefits.

Thus, the Spanish eat an average of 300 grams per day of vegetables while meat consumption raises to 178 grams per day, motivated by the influence of prepared foods and the difficulty in resisting “what is cholesterol rich,” said Professor Varela.

Other environmental factors such as the incorporation of women into the workplace, which in his view, must be fought with new formulas and in any case with his back to the kitchen and the modification of the family have also influenced this loss of good eating habits, which has led to the proliferation of prepared foods and eating outside the home.

In fact, the criteria for the selection of food at the time of filling the basket, recent studies have warned that the Spanish give more priority to the value and the fact that food is easy to prepare above other criteria such as pleasure or how healthy it can be.

Similarly, Varela said, the restaurants always bet the consumer “a good piece of meat or fish” in which “to wash the conscience” include some vegetables or vegetable as a garnish.

Misconceptions
to avoid this, this expert would take to break down misconceptions about certain foods, such as the Mediterranean diet or a healthier diet is more expensive. “The problem, they say, is that consumers are driven by that size-price relationship and this benefits foods high in saturated fat”, while cereals and legumes have lower prices, and despite this, “do not consume.”

Similarly, he lamented that has dropped the consumption of bread because “is not fashionable to eat” while olive oil, “that if it is” also consume less. Against this, recommended at least five servings of fruit or vegetables a day and eating fish three times a week.

Experts warn of the need to include iodine in the diet of the Spanish to eliminate disturbances arising from deficiency of this element as the World Health Organization (WHO) requires that 90 percent of households regularly use iodized salt, but only 25 percent include it in your diet.

Therefore, over 70 percent of Spanish is at risk of presenting yododeficiencia levels that can lead to disorders such as loss of IQ, developmental delay, cretinism and goiter. However, says the WHO, this problem is easily preventable, since it is only necessary to replace the common use of iodized salt to ensure optimum levels in the body.

In particular, experts say that only with the recommended daily intake of this food would be achieved than three grams of iodine needs that require the body, so it could prevent an easy deficiency of this mineral and its consequences.

In this regard, the Chief of Endocrinology and Nutrition, University Hospital Carlos Haya in Malaga, Dr. Frederick J. Soriguer, noted that “the authorities are carrying out campaigns to promote and encourage the consumption of iodized salt in place of common salt, as well as legislation increasing the iodine content in foods that are susceptible to it such as salt , bread or milk. ”

In Spain there is still no national plan for the eradication of IDD, however, Asturias, Galicia, Extremadura and Catalonia have implemented programs of this kind, becoming pioneers in our country communities. Among them, the case of Asturias, where, after more than 20 years of monitoring, have managed to eradicate this problem

“The fact that in our country, the law indicates the voluntary consumption of iodized salt is necessary for the administration to conduct a sustained campaign in time for the awareness of the importance of eating this type of salt,” said.

ALMOST HALF of pregnant women have iodine deficiency
According to UNICEF, in Spain between 30 and 50 percent of pregnant women is deficient in iodine intake so that the 500,000 births provided by the INE for this year, about half could pose some risk TDY, a problem that affects over 740 million people worldwide.

In countries like the United States or Switzerland, where consumption of iodized salt is mandatory since the early twentieth century, we confirm that a regular consumption of this type of salt has been the total elimination of IDD. However, it is contradictory that, despite having the solution to hand, according to WHO, are European countries and the eastern Mediterranean, between which would include Spain, which have a higher proportion of inadequate intakes iodine in the population aged 0 to 6 years, precisely the most at risk.