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Article: Lowering triglycerides isn't hard
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 28, 2000
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The role high triglycerides play in heart disease can be critical
when paired with other risk factors. Fat and oil in foods such as
butter, margarine, corn and canola oil are mainly in triglyceride
form. Often I am asked the question, "How are triglycerides formed?"
Once eaten, triglycerides are processed by the liver in several
ways:
If you eat too much saturated fat, the liver produces more
cholesterol and releases it into the blood stream.
If you eat too many calories, the liver turns them into
triglycerides and your body stores them as fat.
If you drink alcohol, the liver produces more triglycerides that
circulate in the blood.
A triglyceride level below 250 milligrams per deciliter of ...