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What causes high blood fat and cholesterole?

Fat and fat-like substances are called lipids. High blood lipid content or high colesterole content may have these causes:

* Too much total fat in the diet.

* Too much sugar or carbohydrates in the diet.

* Too much carbohydrates and fat combined.

* Too much saturated fat in the food.

* Too much colesterole in the food.

* For some individual high blood cholesterole content is inherited.

About high homocystein levels - a risk factor for heart disease

Homocystein is an amino acid that the body itself produces. It is used as a building block in more complicated structures and as a tool in physiological processes. In those processes it often work together with vitamin B12, B6 and B9.

A too high content of homocystein  effects a bad ballance of low-density (LDL) lipoprotein against high dencity lipoprotein (HDL), that is too much LDL and too little HDL.

A high content of homocystein irritates the walls in the blood vessels and weakens them so that further damage more easily occur.

A high content of homocystein increases the tendency to get blood vessels clogged by atherosclerosis.

Too much homocystein increases the tendency in the blood to produce blood clots that narrow or tighten a blod vessel.

All these basic effects increases the risk of getting bad heart function, bad circulation and dangerous heart attacks, like heart infarction.

It  is however not quite clear how much of the listed effects that homocystein itself produces, and how much both the listed effects and high homocystein content are produced by other unnown factors.

In either case, a high content of homocystein in the blood is an indicator of higher risk for trouble with the heart and blood circulation and for heart attacks.

A too little supply of the vitamins B6, B12 and B9 seems to increase the level of homocystein.

A supply of these vitamins may therefore help to decrease the level of homocystein and the risk og getting trouble with the blood circulation.

For people allready having had a heart attack, however, an immediate increase of the supply of these vitamins do not seem to have an effect against the risk of a new attack.

In either case, a generally healthy lifestyle will tend to decrease the level of homocystein and thereby decrease the risk of getting heart and circulation trouble.

Dietary advices to avoid high blood fat and colesterole content

To get a healthy lipid balance, you need to avoid over-consuming fat and sugar, and to have a right balance between the different fat and carbohydrate types.

* Do not consume more carbahydrates plus fat that you need for your daily energy consume.

*  Get your energy need by combination of carbohydrates and fat. Probably less fat than carbohudrats is the better choise.

* Do not consume too much saturated fat. Such fat is found in red meat, butter, fat milk and cheese.

* Keep your colesterole levels low. However. you need to have some cholesterole. Your cholesterole levels are caused both by consuming cholesterole iyself and by convertion of saturated fat to cholesterole. The combination of the consume of saturated fat and cholesterole itself determine your cholesterole levels. Eggs and spawn are the foods containing most cholesterole.

* You must consume some mono-unsaturated fat. This is found in olive oil, rape oil (raps oil), canola oil, almonds and almond oil..

* It is very important to consume some omega-3-unsaturated fat every day. This fat type is found in fish, especially fat fish and flax oil.

* Do not consume too much omega-6-unsaturated fat. However, some of this fat type is needed. You find it in soy oil, corn oil, sunflower oil and many other commonly used oil types. It is usual to get too much of this fat type.

* Do not consume chemically altered fat, so called trans-fat. This type of fat is often found in margarine, and is often added to snacks, ready-made cakes, fast-food, ready-made dishes and ofte also to bread.

* The carbohydrates you consume, should be of the type that is absorbed slowly from the intestines. Carbohydrates in full corn bread, whole cereals, peas and beens are of this type.

About trans-fat - a risk factor for cardiovascular disease

Trans fat is a type of multi-or monounsaturated fat. Chemically trans fats are  made up of the same elements as non-trans fats, but the molecules have different shapes. In trans-fat molecules the double bonds between carbon atoms are in the trans configuration instead of the cis-configuration, resulting in a straight rather than curved shape. Trans fats have because of this a higher melting point than the corresponding cis-fats.

Trans fat occurs in small amounts naturally in meat and dairy products from ruminants, but the majority of trans fat consumed by people today is produced industrially as a by-product during hydrogenization of plant oils. Plant-oils are hydrogenized to maker the fatty acid molecules more saturated and thereby to increase the melting point and viscocity. The conversion of much of the fatty acids to trans-fat also increase the melting point and viscocity.

Hydrogenated fats containing much trans-fat are used in alimentary products like bread and cookies to give the product wanted mechanical properties and in margarines for rousting and other cooking.

Trans fat is not necessary for the body or good for the health. On the contrary, trans fat increases the risk of developing coronary heart disease and cancer, and is posibly worse than cholesterole and plain saturated fat in that respect.

During a long period health authorities in many societies have recommended the use of plant margarines instead of butter in order to reduce the incidence of heart disease. These enterpizes have generally not succeeded in the purpose, because the advices got people into using margarines with trans-fat instead.

As a consequence of this, some societies have by now banned products with a high content of trans.fat, but other societies have ignored the problems created by the extensive use of hydrogenated fat types that include much trans.fat.

To protect yourself against trans-fat, you must do as follows:

- Reduce the amount of cookies and fat bakery products you consume.

- Reduce the amount of fast-food and ready.cooked food you consume.

- Only use oils for cooking, never margarine.

- Check the amount of fat and the type of fat that is in the bread you use. In many areas it is impossiblelto find bread without added trans-fat. In that case the best thing is to bake your own bread, the next-best is to choose the bread with the least fat.


 

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This information is nutritional in nature and should not be construed as medical advice. This notice is required by the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.