An unhealthy diet will push up hyperlipidemia, but what is hyperlipidemia? Recently, Mr. Wang in Wuhan had an intuitive experience-the doctor took 2 liters of serum from his blood. What's going on here?
What health risks will hyperlipidemia bring to the body? What should I do in my daily diet to reduce blood fat and prevent hyperlipidemia?
First of all, do a little popular science. What the man wants to do is not hemodialysis, but a special treatment-in vitro blood lipid separation, commonly known as "blood washing".
It should be said that this is not a new technology. As early as the late 1970s, this technique was used to treat refractory hyperlipidemia. This technology is similar to hemodialysis, that is, pumping blood into a special device, then removing bad cholesterol from the blood in vitro, and finally returning the treated blood to the body. Seeing this, many people's eyes must be bright: this technology is good, can't the excess oily substances in the blood be cleaned up?
In fact, this technique can't remove the atherosclerotic plaque on the arterial wall. The reason is simple: vascular plaque is attached to the wall of blood vessels, not in the center of blood vessels. In other words, this blood washing method is still a scratch on the atherosclerotic lesion and cannot fundamentally solve the problem.
However, it must be admitted that in the short term, in vitro blood lipid separation is still obvious for excessive blood lipid reduction in vivo! Clinical data show that triglyceride in blood can be reduced by 30%-70% after blood lipid purification. The milk blood pumped by Wuhan men mentioned at the beginning of this article is actually caused by hyperlipidemia. So, can those patients with hyperlipidemia sit back and relax through in vitro blood lipid separation?
The answer is naturally no, not to mention the high price of extracorporeal blood lipid separation, but as far as the operation itself is concerned, this method has the risk of bleeding, acid-base imbalance, thrombosis, and other side effects, such as infection, septicemia, and decreased body resistance. Therefore, we still need to be very cautious about this kind of operation.
It should also be reminded that the lipid-lowering effect of in vitro lipid separation can only be maintained at 1 week, and it is naive to think that hyperlipidemia can be washed for a lifetime. To manage your blood lipids well, you still need to start from the dribs and drabs of life.
It can be said for sure that the high triglyceride in blood is very harmful to health! It is closely related to atherosclerosis. When triglycerides rise, it will reduce the esterase activity of lipoprotein exchange between lipids, accelerate the excretion of high-density lipoprotein from the kidney, and increase small and dense lipoprotein, thus increasing the risk of atherosclerosis!
All this often brings a series of consequences: fundus arteriosclerosis leads to decreased vision and blindness, cerebral arteriosclerosis leads to a great increase in the risk of stroke, and renal microvascular sclerosis leads to renal damage. From this point of view, it is very important to reduce triglycerides in the blood!
How to prevent hypertriglyceridemia? At present, there are the following suggestions:
First, diet. Significantly reduce carbohydrate intake. This is very important. Excessive carbohydrates will increase the level of insulin in the blood, thus increasing the accumulation of fat in the body and increasing the risk of chronic inflammation and arteriosclerosis.
Regarding carbohydrates, we should first pay attention to the most common kind around us-starch! Starch must be decomposed into glucose in the intestine before it can be absorbed by the human body, which will naturally increase the insulin secretion of the human body and naturally increase the risk of obesity and arteriosclerosis. From this perspective, fine rice flour needs to be strictly controlled.
Let's talk about the fruit problem again. Fruit contains some sugar, including fructose and glucose. It is self-evident that glucose will increase insulin, and the harm of fructose to health is also obvious, and its influence on insulin resistance is also obvious. Therefore, for people with hypertriglyceridemia, it is necessary to limit high-sugar fruits, such as litchi, longan, banana, fresh jujube, hawthorn, coconut, peach, pomegranate and persimmon. More attention should be paid to fruits with super-high sugar content, such as sugarcane (sugar content is as high as 20-30).
The most important thing to pay attention to is avoiding sugar, especially corn syrup, mainly malt syrup made of various enzymes. Baked foods such as bread, cakes, milk tea and carbonated drinks, sauces such as pizza sauce, tomato sauce and barbecue sauce, and processed foods such as lunch meat, sausages and canned food are all junk foods, which are closely related to obesity, diabetes and hypertriglyceridemia. If starch and high-sugar fruits need to be restricted, foods containing corn syrup should be avoided as much as possible.
Second, choose a good grease. This is very important. Refined vegetable oils, such as soybean oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil, blended oil and rapeseed oil, should be avoided as much as possible. Because these oils contain too much omega-6 unsaturated fatty acids, it will aggravate the inflammatory state of the body, thus increasing the risk of arteriosclerosis and obesity. What oil do you recommend? Olive oil, coconut oil, camellia oil, avocado oil, perilla oil and even animal fat are all recommended oils.
Third, sleep. Adequate sleep is very important for health. Sleeping less than 6 hours a day will affect the blood sugar balance and blood lipid balance, so it is recommended to set the target at 8 hours as far as possible. Try to avoid blue light when sleeping (mobile phone, laptop or computer for at least 60 minutes, preferably 90 minutes before going to bed), and take away all electronic equipment in the sleeping room. Never put your mobile phone in your room when you sleep.
Fourth, exercise. Proper exercise is very important for health, and it is also important for the healthy balance of blood lipids.
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