Sentences with phrase «dense cholesterol particles»

We are now learning that its carbs, high processed carbs that are in reality causing high trigs, which also lead to small dense cholesterol particles (the kind that penetrate artery walls and cause unstable plaques).

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(5) Research has shown that in most cases eating up to 3 eggs per day can actually improve your good cholesterol (HDL) and your bad cholesterol (LDL) will stay the same or change from being small dense LDL particles to large LDL particles.

Small dense LDL particles can cause damage, and it's these particles — not the cholesterol itself — that indicate a risk for heart attack and stroke.

The LDL - particle number and the small dense LDL - particles fell toward normal with the addition of the avocado to the diet — both favorable results for people with high cholesterol.

They can increase LDL cholesterol and in particular the small dense LDL particles that damage our arteries.

Yet the reduction in LDL cholesterol from reducing saturated fat intake seems to be specific to large, buoyant (type A) LDL particles, when in factit is the small, dense (type B) particles (responsive to carbohydrate intake) that are implicated in cardiovascular disease.Indeed, recent prospective cohort studies have not supported any significant association between saturated fat intake and cardiovascular risk Instead, saturated fat has been found to be protective.»

In fact, the diet should be approximately 70 % of calories from unadulturated fats like low carb nuts (pecans and macadamias are great, almonds ok and peanuts and cashews are considered higher carb on the nut scale), avocado, grass fed butter, coconut oil, olive oil; and the remainng 15/15 for protein and non-starchy vegetable carbs, especially nutrient dense leafy greens It is carbohydrates or high protein leading to gluconeogenesis in the diet that make concurrent consumption of fats a cardiovascular risk, but in a properly carb - restricted and moderate protein diet, and in the absence of systemic inflammation (hsCRP, ESR), one should not worry about increases in cholesterol, but focus on the size of the cholesterol particles (bigger is better) Dr. Peter Attia explains this complex topic well.

(Remember, refined carbs also produce small, dense harmful LDL cholesterol particles, which adds to your heart disease risk.)

Lipoprotein lipid profile disturbances associated with an elevated TG level include low High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and HDL particle (HDL - P), and a predominance of small dense Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) and LDL particle (LDL - P).

For a large proportion of the population, however, the effect of higher - carbohydrate diets, particularly those enriched in refined carbohydrates, coupled with the rising incidence of overweight and obesity, creates a metabolic state that can favor a worsening of the atherogenic dyslipidemia that is characterized by elevated triglycerides, reduced HDL cholesterol, and increased concentrations of small, dense LDL particles (6, 7).