An American Epidemic of Fat Blobs

Little fat blobs in your circulation, known as triglycerides, are now shown to be excessively elevated in 33% of Americans. These little fat blobs are turning out to be the best predictor of heart disease, especially when they are measured on a non-fasting basis.

In the current study the cutoff for a high score was the typical lab range of 150 mg/dL. However, I have pointed out in previous writing that your triglycerides should never be more than twice the amount of your HDL cholesterol, or you are knocking on the cardiovascular risk door. HDL must haul away the garbage fats in cholesterol, taking them back to your liver to be recycled or cleared. If there is not enough HDL to clear out unwanted fatty components in LDL cholesterol, and there is at the same time too many triglycerides pushing fatty particle into LDL cholesterol – then it is the recipe for a major health problem.

High triglycerides also block leptin from getting into your brain correctly, which in turn makes you want to eat more food that further and inappropriately elevates your triglycerides – a nasty catch 22. You don't want to get stuck in a situation where your inappropriate cravings for food are running your life – because there is no possible beneficial outcome to that path – only early death and disease.

Follow the Leptin Diet and you can break out of this problem and get back in control of your eating patterns, cravings, energy level, and health.