update to reasons for high triglycerides

Update to reasons for high triglycerides  : My husband had his blood test about a month ago.  His total cholesterol was down to 200.  This a remarkable achievement.  His triglycerides had dropped from over 300 down to 139.  No medication was involved.  He simply stopped drinking Mountain Dew  and continued to take his fish oil. His [...]

March 19, 2010 · fitness blog · 101 Comments
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Poor lifestyle habits and disease

 Poor lifestyle habits are responsible for the vast majority of the health problems most Americans are facing.  High blood pressure, high cholesterol, Type 2 diabetes and obesity are all around us and yet these illnesses are preventable and, if you have them, controllable.  The healthiest way to control them is by changing your eating and [...]

December 13, 2009 · fitness blog · 35 Comments
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New Year’s resolutions

It’s almost time for making New Year’s resolutions.  It your goal is to lose weight and get healthier, this year resolve to make a change that will get you the results you want.  Beachbody has all the tools, programs, and motivations to keep you going in the right direction. Exercise and healthy diet are not [...]

December 12, 2009 · fitness blog · 36 Comments
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Soft drinks as one of the reasons for high triglycerides

Several years ago, my husband, who can be the king of unhealthy, having grown up in a house where they ate eggs, bacon, gravy, and biscuits for breakfast nearly every morning, spent 2 months in the hospital with the worst case of acute pancreatitis that his doctors had ever seen. Acute pancreatitis is inflammation of [...]

August 19, 2009 · fitness blog · 52 Comments
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