Quotes About Lipids

REFERENCE RANGES FOR TRIGLYCERIDES Triglycerides (mg/dL) Category Greater than 499 Very High 200 to 499 High 150 to199 Borderline high Less than 150 Normal Target Range: 50 to 100 mg/dL

REFERENCE RANGES FOR TOTAL CHOLESTEROL Total Cholesterol (mg/dL) Category Greater than 239 High 200 to 239 Borderline high Less than 200 Desirable Target Range: 150 to 200 mg/dL

Dr. Nash would give Dave and the rest of us a formulation of the drug called liposomal amphotericin. In this form, the toxic drug is encapsulated in microscopic spherules made of lipids (fats). This makes the drug safer, reducing some of the most dangerous side effects. But the lipid droplets can cause disturbing side effects of their own.

cholesterol and transport it to the neuron, where it performs critically important functions.

Instead, statins artificially lower the level of cholesterol in

we didn't know that HDL, triglycerides, and the size of your LDL (bad cholesterol) mattered more than total cholesterol.

To complicate matters further, proteins must catalyze formation of the basic building blocks of cellular life such as sugars, lipids, glycolipids, nucleotides, and ATP (adenosine triphosphate, the main energy molecule of the cell).

Not everything that lowers HDL is bad for you. If you change from a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet to a healthy low-fat, low-cholesterol diet, your HDL levels may stay the same or even decrease because there is less need for it. When you have less garbage, you need fewer garbage trucks to remove it, so your body may make less HDL.

It was shown that eating 1, 1.5, and 2.4 ounces of nuts per day was associated with a reduction in LDL cholesterol of 4.2 percent, 4.9 percent, and 7.4 percent, respectively.38 Similarly, substantial evidence from human trials shows that avocado consumption improves blood lipid levels.

phospholipids.

of Lipids and Metabolism at Mount Sinai's cardiovascular institute put

estrogen tells the liver habitually to favor the production of HDL over that of low-density lipoprotein. (Intense exercise can have a similarly promotional effect on the liver's outlay of HDL; the rigors of chronic activity inspire the same anabolic spirit that reproduction does, the same need to scavenge available blood lipids for the sake of creating new cells.)

The word triglyceride is derived from the fact that when your body transports fat molecules from one place to another, it generally attaches three fat molecules to a glycerine molecule (hence, tri-glyceride) before sending them into the watery environment of the bloodstream.