Eat smart for good healthDiet and heart disease are linked [Archives:2004/783/Health]

By Abdulhafidh Abdulkader Al-Sha'bi
For the Yemen Times
Lipids are a large compounds that are essential for the human body serve a large of important functions and exist in a variety of shapes, size and structures separated into four groups: cholesterol “ester and free,” triglycerides or glycerol esters, “the most abundant” fatty acids, and phospholipids.
Cholesterol and triglycerides are the two most prominent lipids in the plasma. The association of triglycerides and cholesterol with heart disease, hepatic disease, and other disease explain the importance to be known cholesterol and triglycerides are may taken in food or synthesis endogenous by body.
Cholesterol is played a very important rate in the body because it is a precursor to many physiological important steroids such as vitamin “D” which is important for bone synthesis and steroid hormones androgens and oestrogens which are important for reproduction functions in addition to other hormones like a “cortisol” of 800mg/day.
Liver is capable to synthesis about from simple material. This amount is about one-third the amount that the body needs every day.
The amount of cholesterol consternation are usually about 100 mg/day. Women have lower cholesterol than men during their first decades, “the productive years”. Estrogens are the main cause for that low concentration.
Young men have a cholesterol concentration that may reach 220mg/di but it is may increase at the fifth and sixth decade to more than 240mg/di.
High cholesterol concentration is considered as one of the risk factors for cardio “disease”. There are many cases for the elevation of cholesterol concentration such as the food which contains saturated fatty acids.
In addition to the hereditary factors, the risk of developing cardio vascular disease increase as the plasma cholesterol concentration rise above the 200mg/di.
The risk of developing is chaemic “heart disease” and a raised plasma total cholesterol and cholesterol which is the main transported of cholesterol to the cells.
When the content of LDL from cholesterol is increased the risk of cardio vascular increased, and vise versa, it leads to hypercholesterol anemia or high cholesterol concentration in the blood.
Major risk factors of cardio vascular disease include smoking and hypertension, two main transporters of cholesterol to the body tissue.
There is HDL, which elevation is very useful and the other is LDL, which elevation with high concentration of cholesterol is very dangerous. HDL: means high density lipo protein which contains more protein and low lipid. LDL means high lipids and very high concentration of lipid.
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