Question

What is the primary cause of triglycerides over 500, and what major dietary changes are needed to lower this number?

Answer 1

Consuming a lot of saturated fats, trans fats, and carbs causes high triglyceride levels.
Consumption of foods high in fiber, fruits, fish, and non-dairy products is necessary in lowering the number.

Answer 2

It is too high ---in fact at a risk level.Coronary artery disease, the leading cause of heart attacks, occurs when the walls of your heart arteries become clogged by cholesterol, triglycerides and calcium

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Triglycerides, a type of fat that accumulates in your arteries, put you at risk for heart attacks and strokes if they measure more than 150 mg/dl – milligrams per deciliter of blood. Triglycerides that top 500 mg/dl put you at very high risk for developing cardiovascular disease. To lower triglycerides, follow a diet low in saturated fat, trans fat and sugar. The fiber and healthy oil in triglycerides make them a good fit on a triglyceride-lowering diet.

Answer 3

You’ll find 145 calories in 100 grams of green olives. This amounts to about 37 olives. Olives provide 1 gram of protein, 15.3 grams of fat and of 3.8 grams of carbohydrate. They provide a good source of fiber –- 3.3 grams –- or about as much as in a banana, an orange, 3 cups of cup of popcorn, 1 cup of brown rice and 1 ounce of almonds. Although olives are high in fat, nearly all of the fat comes from heart-health monounsaturated oil.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/544706-green-olives-high-triglycerides/#ixzz1sJlkTRv5

Answer 4

These are both good answers - I was curious to see if I would get anything beyond the standard "follow a healthy, low-fat diet" advice which is common knowledge but doesn't go deep enough. Someone in my family has VERY high triglycerides and DOES eat a low-fat diet but it hasn't helped because of two things he continues to put into his body. Any guesses?

Answer 5

Not to sound silly but is he on anabolic steroids? It's known that steroids raise LDL and lower HDL. Also, does he take beta blockers or diuretics?

Answer 6

Mediteranian diet is the only proven Diabetes friendly diet, if any diet i allways recommend this one.
Atam this might be a hormonal increase in weight regulated by Ghrelin and Leptin, these regulates a persons hunger and the fullness. Basically if he never feels full and gets hungry very quickly after eating, if he's not a diabetic or has any disease which can give prominent to this problem such as Hypothyreodism. Pretty much the only thing that prove any working weightloss would be Gastric bypass, The result of the procedure works like a reset switch on the gene which showed expression which cause this iregularity in the hunger hormones.
This is a genetic factor which may or may not be expressed when exposed to certain factors as chronical stress of nutritian deprevation during a prolonged time, but this hormonal irregularity does not revet back to it's inactive state naturally.
Criteria to be operated varies from nation to nation, but is generally around 35 BMI.

As far as diets go, don't stuff yourself to the point of burts, don't cheat on your diet and don't abort your diet.
Most reasons for additional weight gain or no weight loss during dieting is due to the fact that the person in question does one of the three mistakes i mentioned above.

Answer 7

Actually I was hoping someone would guess alcohol and white sugar! In spite of all the other healthy efforts (he's not on steroids and is not overweight), the alcohol and other sugars have kept the triglycerides very high.

Again these are all good answers and I'd give everyone a medal for humoring me with the discussion but with this new system it isn't allowed...

Answer 8

Well, sugars are carbs and alcohols, excluding most liquors, are rich in carbs--and carbs were included above as culprits in increasing triglyceride levels :]