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Suffer From High Blood Pressure
Suffer from high blood pressure? Well, do not be discouraged if your doctor has recommended you to minimize your consumption of table salt, there are infinite number of other options to give “more taste” to foods. Anyway, believe it would be a good opportunity to ‘learn’ to taste the natural flavor of food.
Is that many times, and many of us, both salted foods at least we do is feel the real taste, and thus become accustomed to salty food and we believe that this is the taste (when in fact it is the salt). As in everything, the key is it’s just so far ‘.
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What is Hyperlipidemia?
We know that our body ingests and produces two types of lipids: cholesterol and triglycerides. When levels of any of these blood fats we are looking at a picture of hyperlipidemia. This means that the altered levels of cholesterol or triglycerides in the blood is hyperlipidemia.
This picture may be inherited or occur as a result of an unbalanced diet rich in fats.
The types of hyperlipidaemia are:
Hypercholesterolaemia: Increased low density lipoprotein (LDL), what we call bad cholesterol. Bad cholesterol unlike the good (HDL, LDL) in the body travels in the opposite direction from the liver to other tissues. When there is excess cholesterol in the blood is deposited in the arteries and that’s when we have the risk of heart disease by clogging.