How can you lower your high triglycerides?
You can make diet and lifestyle changes to help lower your levels.
Stay at a healthy weight.
Limit fats and sugars in your diet.
Be more active.
Quit smoking.
Limit alcohol.

What are triglycerides?
Triglycerides are a type of fat found in your blood. Your body uses them for energy. You need some triglycerides for good health. But high triglycerides can raise your risk of heart disease and may be a sign of metabolic syndrome.

Metabolic syndrome is the combination of high blood pressure, high blood sugar, too much fat around the waist, low HDL ("good") cholesterol, and high triglycerides.

Metabolic syndrome increases your risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. A blood test that measures your cholesterol also measures your triglycerides. For a general idea about your triglycerides level, compare your test results to the following:

Normal is less than 150.
Borderline-high is 150 to 199.
High is 200 to 499.
Very high is 500 or higher.


What causes high triglycerides?

High triglycerides are usually caused
by other conditions, such as:
Obesity.
Poorly controlled diabetes.
An underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism).
Kidney disease.
Regularly eating more calories than you burn.
Drinking a lot of alcohol.

Certain medicines may also raise triglycerides. These medicines include:
Tamoxifen.
Steroids.
Beta-blockers.
Diuretics.
Estrogen.
Birth control pills.
In a few cases, high triglycerides also can run in families.

There may be more health risks than anything. But believe it or not alcohol does have some benefits. The risks of drinking are increased accidents, strokes caused by bleeding, it can interfere with prescription medicines, it can contribute to birth defects in pregnant women and it can increase your chance for breast cancer.
The positive aspects of drinking alcohol, the heath benefits are that alcohol can actually reduce stress, anyone who has had a drink or two can tell you that. Alcohol can decrease the risk in cardiovascular disease such as heart attack. They say a glass of wine can help prevent a heart attack. Alcohol also produces an increased appetite, that can be good and bad, but it is good especially for elderly people.

Alcohol on a short-term basis is good for you but on a long-term abusive cycle it can cause you more harm than good. Keep it to maybe one two glasses a day. Don't abuse it and if you are going to drink a lot, drink a lot of water in between. That way you get the benefit or water and alcohol. Drink you alcohol moderately. Some people wait until the weekend to drink but the benefits work better if you have a drink on a regular basis.

Einstein wrote this quiz during 20th century. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz.

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

Here's the question: Who owns the fish?
1) The Brit lives in a red house
2) The Swede keeps dogs as pets
3) The Dane drinks tea
4) The green house is on the left of the white house
5) The green house owner drinks coffee
6) The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
7) The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
8) The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk
9) The Norwegian lives in the first house
10) The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats
11) The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill
12) The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
13) The German smokes Prince
14) The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
15) The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water

With these 15 clues the problem is solvable.