By Beverleigh H Piepers
Heart and blood vessel disease is one of the most serious complications of Type 2 diabetes. Diabetic patients are two and a half times more likely than nondiabetics to have diseases of the heart and blood vessels, including strokes. Strokes occur when a blood vessel supplying oxygen and sugar to the brain either become blocked or bleeds, depriving the brain of oxygen and energy. When a blockage causes a stroke it is called an ischemic stroke.
According to an article published in Lipids, Health and Disease in November 2014, scientists at Nanjing University Medical School in China compared the HDL levels in both diabetic patients and nondiabetics to learn how arteries in the brain become blocked. It was found...
- among Type 2 diabetics, those with low HDL cholesterol, had more than twice the risk of ischemic stroke than diabetics with high HDL levels.
- among those diabetics over 70, the risk was more than 6 times higher in the low HDL group.
- among the nondiabetic participants, no such association was found.
High density lipoprotein or HDL, go through the bloodstream picking up cholesterol and taking it to the liver. The liver then breaks down the cholesterol, lowering the level of total cholesterol and LDL, or light density lipoprotein, cholesterol complexes. Mayo Clinic in the United States recommends 60 mg/dl as a healthy HDL level.
Effective ways to increase HDL levels include...
- losing extra body fat,
- increasing physical activity, and
- eating healthful foods.
For overweight or obese people, losing 6 pounds can raise HDL as much as 1 mg/dl. Aerobic exercise such as
- riding a bike,
- walking,
- swimming,
- playing an active sport, or
- raking leaves for a half hour a day,
help to raise your HDL levels.
Eating foods made with olive oil, peanut oil, nuts, whole wheat, or flax seeds and avoiding animal fats is also helpful, as is not smoking.
When you substitute flax seeds for eggs you lower your cholesterol two ways. The flax seeds contain omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, which help to lower cholesterol, and you avoid adding more cholesterol to your diet in the form of egg yolks.
Try making healthful scones with a recipe from the website http://www.PriyaEasynTastyRecipes.blogspot.com where Priya uses whole wheat flour, rolled oats, baking powder, baking soda, oil, water, sugar (could be substituted), almond milk, chocolate chips (optional), and ground flax seeds. http://www.Rawon10.com suggests making burgers with red pepper, ground flax seeds, mushrooms, walnuts, white onion, jalapeno pepper, celery, and olive oil.
Here's to your health.
Type 2 diabetes is not a condition you must just live with. By making easy changes to your daily routine, its possible to protect your heart, kidneys, eyes and limbs from the damage often caused by diabetes, and eliminate some of the complications you may already experience.
For nearly 25 years Beverleigh Piepers has searched for and found a number of secrets to help you build a healthy body. Go to http://DrugFreeType2Diabetes.com to learn about some of those secrets.
The answer isn't in the endless volumes of available information but in yourself.
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