With age, people's vascular health will inevitably have a variety of problems, the most common of which is high blood lipids. Although hyperlipidemia does not have a more obvious impact on human health in the early stage, it will cause serious damage to the patient's blood vessels with the development of the disease. Therefore, hyperlipidemia is a disease that must attract the attention of patients.
For patients with hyperlipidemia, controlling diet is an important means of controlling blood lipids. But many people's perception of controlling diet only stays on the matter of eating less meat. In fact, in the process of diet, there are several vegetarian foods, which are also high in blood lipids should be avoided as much as possible. Today we will talk to you about the disease of high blood lipids and how to control it.
First, why does hyperlipidemia occur, and what kind of harm will it cause to the human body?
In order to make everyone more clear about how to control high blood lipids, we first need to have a clear understanding of the disease of high blood lipids. Everyone needs to know why hyperlipidemia occurs, and understand what kind of damage high blood lipids may cause to the human body.
There are many, many causes of high blood lipids, but they fall into two broad categories. One type of hyperlipidemia patients is high blood lipids due to a decrease in the ability to metabolize fats; the other type of hyperlipidemia patients is high blood lipids because of the intake of too many lipid substances.
Let's start by talking about the reasons that may lead to a decrease in the body's ability to metabolize fat.
First, the most common are genetic factors. Hyperlipidemia is a disease with a very obvious genetic predisposition and the probability of high lipids in immediate family members is much higher than that of ordinary people. Moreover, the high blood lipids caused by genetic factors are more difficult to control.
Secondly, some endocrine diseases may also lead to a decrease in the body's ability to metabolize lipids, which in turn can cause hyperlipidemia. For example, hypothyroidism, also known as hypothyroidism, is an endocrine disease caused by abnormal thyroid function. Thyroid hormone secretion in hypothyroidism decreases, so their ability to metabolize lipids also decreases, which in turn causes the appearance of hyperlipidemia.
In addition to this, there is a very common factor that may lead to a decrease in the patient's ability to metabolize lipids, that is, lack of exercise. Exercise can do a good job of boosting the body's metabolic level, including the metabolism of lipids. If there is a long-term lack of exercise, the body's intake of lipids is higher than the metabolized lipids, which may lead to diseases such as hyperlipidemia.
Next, let's talk about the factors that can cause patients to consume too much lipids.
The main and most common factor is an unhealthy diet. Some eating habits, such as high fat, high calories, etc., may cause the body to consume too many lipids, which in turn causes high blood lipids in patients. Unhealthy eating habits can be said to be the cause of the disease in the vast majority of patients with high blood lipids, so it is also a key point in controlling high blood lipids.
If the patient's liver function is abnormal, it may also cause the patient to ingest too much lipids. There are two types of fat in the human body, one is ingested from the diet, this type of lipid substance is an exogenous lipid substance, and the other is synthesized by the liver, which is called endogenous lipid substance.
If the liver function of the patient is abnormal, it may lead to an increase in the amount of lipids synthesized by the liver, resulting in an increase in the content of endogenous lipids in the patient's body. This is also a pathway that triggers high blood lipids.
Knowing how hyperlipidemia occurs helps us understand how hyperlipidemia should be controlled, and understanding the health problems that hyperlipidemia may cause is conducive to helping us recognize the need to control hyperlipidemia.
The amount of lipids that can be transported per unit volume of blood is limited. For patients with hyperlipidemia, a portion of the lipids are separated from the blood and deposited in the lining of blood vessels. These lipids deposited in the lining of blood vessels are called plaques.
These plaques can cause two kinds of harm to the body. First, if blood lipids are not effectively controlled, these plaques can become larger and larger over time, eventually even leading to blocked blood vessels. When blood does not flow properly, it may lead to some serious diseases, such as myocardial infarction or cerebral infarction. These diseases can easily take the lives of patients.
And these plaques are not necessarily firmly attached to the inner wall of the blood vessel. Sometimes, under the wash of blood, these plaques will fall off the lining of the blood vessels. These shedding plaques act like blood clots, flowing around the blood vessels with the blood. Once flowing through the narrowing of the blood vessels, these plaques can block the blood vessels, causing the disease to occur.
Therefore, hyperlipidemia is a very serious disease. Once you find that you have high blood lipids, you must effectively control it in time. If you sit idly by with high blood lipids, it can lead to serious health problems.
Second, to control high blood lipids, it is even necessary to stay away from these vegetarian foods.
Because poor eating habits are one of the important causes of hyperlipidemia, and hyperlipidemia may bring great harm to human health, many hyperlipidemia patients are trying to control the development and deterioration of hyperlipidemia by controlling diet. But many friends still stay on the concept of controlling the diet on not eating meat, in fact, there are several vegetarian foods, if often consumed, may also lead to the patient's blood lipids out of control.
1. The first thing we want to talk about is potatoes.
Potatoes are a food that makes people feel full and easy to cook, so many friends like to eat potatoes. But what may surprise everyone is that as a vegetarian diet, potatoes are a food that can lead to the development and deterioration of high blood lipids.
Compared with other vegetables, the carbohydrate content in potatoes is very high. Carbohydrates release a large amount of calories in the process of being absorbed by the body. These calories can lead to an increase in the amount of triglycerides in the body, which in turn can lead to the occurrence of hyperlipidemia.
And in the traditional cooking methods of the mainland, potatoes often do not use a relatively light cooking method, whether it is fried or fried, which will further increase the calories of this food and affect human health.
Compared to other vegetables, potatoes are a light-colored vegetable, which means that the carotene content in potatoes is very low. Carotene is an antioxidant, when the lack of antioxidants in the human body, the body's lipids will be oxidized, by the immune system attack, speeding up the deposition of these lipids. So for patients with high blood lipids, potatoes are not an ideal food.
2. Eggplant
Eggplant is also a very common vegetable in our lives, eggplant is rich in vitamins, suitable for most people to eat. However, it should be noted that eggplant is not suitable for those with high blood lipids to eat.
Because the internal structure of eggplant is very special, the interior of eggplant is porous and fluffy. After heating, the eggplant absorbs a large amount of oil during the contraction process. After eating these oils and fats, people who eat eggplant will have a great possibility of causing the body to consume too much fat, which will cause the occurrence of hyperlipidemia.
3. Peanuts
In addition to eggplants, and potatoes, there is a common vegetarian diet that can cause blood lipids to run out of control, and this food is peanuts. Although peanuts are small, their fat content is not low, and the fat content in peanuts can be as high as 40% to 50% of their total nutrients.
In general, the amount of peanut rice consumed by a healthy adult should not exceed 16 grains per day. However, when most people eat peanuts, they cannot control the amount of peanuts they eat every day within this range.
And the cooking method of peanuts is often inseparable from frying, frying and other means. These cooking methods tend to make peanuts, which are already very high in oil, more unhealthy, especially for those with high blood lipids, and eating peanuts is very detrimental to their control of blood lipids.
Careful selection of ingredients is only part of controlling diet; controlling diet is only one of the many means of controlling blood lipids. In order to effectively control blood lipids, it is necessary to take a variety of means at the same time, and cannot rely solely on controlling diet.
Third, if patients with hyperlipidemia want to control blood lipids, what methods can be used?
Hyperlipidemia is a chronic disease, the control of this disease is a long and complex process, the patient needs to take a variety of means, the joint action can effectively control the development or deterioration of hyperlipidemia. Patients with hyperlipidemia can control hyperlipidemia in their lives in several ways.
1. Maintain healthy eating habits.
Maintaining healthy eating habits here includes, but is not limited to, choosing the right type of food. In addition to eliminating foods that may cause elevated blood lipids, such as fatty meat, potatoes, peanuts, eggplant, etc., we must also pay attention to the total amount of diet.
In addition, patients with hyperlipidemia should also pay attention to the balance of diet. Many vitamins play a very important role in the process of controlling blood lipids. For example, vitamin C, this vitamin can affect the body's ability to metabolize lipids. Our common green peppers, tomatoes, oranges and other foods are rich in vitamin C. Maintaining a balanced diet is of great significance for controlling high blood lipids.
2. Pay attention to maintaining a certain amount of exercise.
As we said in the introduction above, lack of exercise is an important cause of insufficient metabolism of lipids in the human body. Therefore, maintaining adequate physical exercise is a very necessary thing for controlling blood lipids.
However, it should be noted that in the process of exercise, we must pay attention to choosing a suitable exercise method under the guidance of a doctor. Exercises that are too low in intensity may not be able to control lipids in the body, while exercises that are too intense may cause harm to the patient's physical health.
3. You can choose the right drug for yourself under the guidance of a doctor to control high blood lipids.
Drugs are one of the most effective means of controlling hyperlipidemia, for hyperlipidemia is more serious, the urgent need to control For patients, taking drugs to treat hyperlipidemia is a very good choice.
But there are so many drugs on the market to treat high blood lipids, and there are seven classic statins alone. These drugs have different characteristics and are suitable for different patients. The physical condition and condition of each patient are also different. Therefore, the choice of drugs has a very important impact on the treatment of patients. This complex task should be left to more specialized doctors, so that patients can better choose the most suitable drugs for themselves.
In addition to choosing the right drug, patients should also follow the doctor's instructions during the process of taking the drug, and cannot change the dose and frequency of taking the drug without permission. As the saying goes, "it is to be three points of poison", some patients in the process of taking drugs will worry about the dose is not enough, privately increase the dose of medication, this behavior is very dangerous, which may lead to patients affected by adverse drug reactions and side effects.
Epilogue:
Hyperlipidemia is a very serious disease, and once you find your own dyslipidemia, you must not sit idly by. In the treatment and control of hyperlipidemia, it is important to control diet; in the process of controlling diet, it must be noted that some "vegetarian" also has a negative impact on patients' control of blood lipids.
The treatment of hyperlipidemia is a protracted battle, and the above several means can play a certain role in the process of controlling hyperlipidemia. But that's not to say that there are only a few ways to control hyperlipidemia. Under the guidance of a doctor, everyone should choose the appropriate method of controlling blood lipids.