What Are Triglycerides? (Part 1 of 2) | HealthiNation

What are Triglycerides? (Part 1 of 2) | HealthiNation – What are triglycerides, and why very high triglycerides are bad for you. Related Videos Testing & Treating of Triglycerides (Part 2 of 2) | HealthiNation www.youtube.com Very High Triglycerides “Do Not Eat” List | HealthiNation www.youtube.com Triglycerides are a type of fat, or lipid, found naturally in the foods we eat and they are also manufactured in our bodies. Triglycerides are important because they function as small storage units of energy in our bodies. Inside the body, triglycerides are found in adipose, or fat, tissue and in the blood—but how do they get there? When we eat and digest foods with fats in them, our bodies absorb the triglycerides into the bloodstream and then are delivered to the cells, where they are used for energy, or taken up by the liver to be repackaged. Any triglycerides that are not immediately used as fuel get stored in the fat cells to be used later. This is what happens when we overeat… we are giving our bodies more energy than it can use immediately. That energy—which is measured in calories—gets stored as fat So why is it bad to have high triglycerides? Medical research has documented that when you have high triglycerides you also have a higher risk for coronary artery disease and stroke. People with high triglyceride levels also tend to have other conditions such as obesity and metabolic syndrome, which are risk factors for heart disease and stroke as well. Sources Atherosclerosis. Dallas, TX: American Heart Association, 2011 …