LOOKING FOR- lowering triglycerides

[serenbat]

I am giving a gift next week of Good Calories, Bad Calories
~ Gary Taubes - and want to give some printable pages regarding lowering triglycerides using high fat - if any one have any sources to add with the book

[azgirl]

Just an FYI: even super mainstream heart docs will tell you that high triglycerides are due to sugary junk food At least that was my experience. The doc told me to lay off "cake and candy" the rest of my lipid profile was awesome despite what my regular doc thought, which is why I got a second opinion with a heart doc. (I was only 25, but felt I ate well and didn't want to go on drugs). The heart doc was pretty irritated that was wasting his time with my over-200-total cholesterol that was high because my HDL was so high...anyway, my triglycerides are great now I still love sweets but I eat paleo/low carb/TF-ish most of the time.

Anyway, my point is that you should be able to print off some mainstream info..good luck!

[serenbat]

it's not for me the info- it's for someone who doesn't eat hardly any sweets and they also want her on a LOW FAT (no real reason given!!! ha ha) and meds- I really am looking for non-mainstream stuff that would have more TF and can't find much of anything

[azgirl]

Ah, I can see my post wasn't very helpful. I googled and it does appear that along with cutting sugar, cutting fat is advised as a way to lower triglycerides. I read this blog and his books and I think his advice is quite sound and scientifically based. This post pretty much sums it up!
http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/c...e-consumption/

[tanyalynn]

There's discussion of triglycerides at wholehealthsource.blogspot.com

It's a health discussion site, TF-based, he cites and links the studies he discusses. Lots of discussion on how low fat is not supported by data, some discussion of cholesterol profiles, triglycerides, like that.

Low fat would usually imply a lot of grains, wouldn't it? One could do it grain-free, that wouldn't be the norm, but I'd look to grains--maybe carbs in general, maybe just grains.

I don't know if that's what you're looking for, exactly. But I love the site, cool discussion linking a lot of Price's ideas but with support by other peoples' research, both older stuff (he wasn't the only one looking at curing cavities back in the day!) plus a lot of newer studies as well.

[serenbat]

thanks- it's a start- I want to find some good TF style info to give that goes against the Dr.'s orders!

Fist this woman was placed on meds (and no talk of changing the diet) we got her to go off the meds and talk to another Dr about correcting her diet- she just buys into all LOW fat is WONDERFUL, and healthy stuff (eggbeaters, fake butter, multi-vit., etc) so we are trying to give her a real healthy approach instead. Like I said she doesn't do much sugar but when she does it's healthy sugars (YUCK!!-fake stuff, pink & blue packets!) so she really needs an over all change- she goes back in 6 months so we want to see some change. I really don't know her # it's a guarded secret! So I don't know how HIGH it is to begin with.

She thinks the thought of good FATS is just all wrong, I hope the book changes that and we also have a neighbor working on her too. She is in her early 60's just got a new husband a few years ago that does eat FAR more healthy than her and it is starting to help- she just started to eat yogurt, fish and add flax in her diet- but over all it is not a healthy diet at this point.

also to add- she has NO real health issue besides finding this thru "yearly" blood work- she is also very Dr. says so type of person