Jessica: “Good morning Mr.Brown, How are you doing today?
Mr Brown: I’d be a lot better if I can get out of here and get back to my couch, so I can watch the game today.
Jessica: Well Mr. Brown, that’s our goal today. To get you feeling much better.
Jessica: Mr. Brown I am now going to tell you your results as well as explain them so you can better understand what you’re up against. And that way, we can all come together and figure out the best plan of action to get your cholesterol under control.
Mr Brown: Okay. As long as I don’t have to get up off of my couch and miss my sports. I’ll think about it.
Jessica: Well Mr. Brown I’ll let you be the judge. Here are your results.
Jessica: Your Triglycerides results are slightly elevated, but not necessarily high. The readings are suppose to be lower than 150 mg/dL, and you fall slightly under that with 145 mg/dL (Schwartz, Aug. 16, 2013, para 3). That’s why I said your results are slightly elevated because it has the potential to be high at any given moment.
Mr. Brown: What the heck is “Tri-what”?
Jessica: (laughs lightly) “Triglycerides”.
Mr. Brown: Yeah. What the heck is that?
Jessica: Well Mr. Brown, simply put, Triglycerides is the major form of fat stored by the body. Not only can we get it from the foods we eat but our body produces it too (Tortora/Derrickson, n.d., para 4). Did you know that when your Triglyceride levels get too high in your blood, they can cause plaque buildup in the arteries (Szalay, March 24, 2016,
“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.”
Good evening Mr. Brown your test results came in and we found out that your Triglycerides are 145 mg/dL, Cholesterol 210 mg/dL, HDL 33 mg/dL, and LDL 160 mg/dL. Normal triglycerides means there are less than 150 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) which you do have which is great. A desirable level of cholesterol would be Below 200 mg/dL, and borderline high would be 200-239 mg/dL so because your cholesterol level is 210 mg/dL you are at borderline high. Ideal LDL level for people at very high risk of heart disease would be below 70 and a high level would be 160-189 mg/dL your LDL level is 160 mg/dL therefore it’s high. The best HDL
“Oh I’ve just been busy with practice all day I have a big game coming
“If you want to.” his reply was hinted with a pessimistic taste. I couldn’t help but feel like we were done for the year after this loss. It resembled the last 3 straight years of going 8-8 and not going to the playoffs. Despite this I still had hope we could make the best
High cholesterol is a dangerous disease that can lead to many life-threatening ailments, and can be lowered by eating healthy, while maintaining a balanced diet of leveled cholesterol. Cholesterol, the sleek-fat like substance that roams in the blood of a body. It is vital to life, but when there is too much intake of cholesterol, it can cause the body to malfunction and cause problems. There are two types of cholesterol HDL and LDL, which varies in the amount of protein and cholesterol it holds Too much cholesterol in a body is dangerous, and surprisingly, has no symptoms. The two main types of cholesterol are HDL and LDL, HDL helps reduce the chances of chronic heart disease, whereas LDL is the main reason for plaque build-up in artery
Steve: “Its been 2 weeks since we had sports so I’m here to talk to you about it”
“Wow, Aren’t you cool man. Guess what we still have more ball to play, so i’d think about that before you say something else dumb,” Austin snapped back.
"Tomorrow at 2:30 right after school come straight to my office so we can get you patted up and ready to go before practice." said the coach.
Martina, your overall cholesterol measurement of 172 mg/dL is below the recommend upper limit of 200 [1]. Additionally, your HDL (high-density lipoprotein)-cholesterol measurement of fifty-six mg/dL is also within the normal limits, which are defined as a reading greater than 40 but less than or equal to 60 mg/dL [1]. Your LDL (low-density lipoprotein)-cholesterol reading is extremely close to being below the recommended limit of 100 mg/dL: your reading was 101 mg/dL [1]. The recommended levels are the values at which your risk for several diseases is minimized. Your triglyceride reading of 78 mg/dL was well within the normal limit of less than 150 mg/dL, but your glucose reading was indicative of prediabetes.
“Bieber.. Brown.. No basketball and no soccer!” yelled Coach Leonard. Sometime we wondered if coach was psychic. It was crazy how he knew exactly what we planned on doing when we were released from practice.
“A week!” said Todd, crumbs falling from his mouth. “Coach is going to murder you when he finds out and what about the homecoming game?!”
Also it is important on where the fat is carried on the body that contribe to health problems. Belly fat for example is stored deep below the skin, causing it to be surrounded by the organs and liver. Saturated and trans fats are big ones to try and avoid. These types of fats are known to increase the risk of diseses and high cholesterol. Foods that include Saturated fats tend to be, cuts of meat like beef and pork, chicken but with the skin, whole-fat dairy products, butter, cheese, palm/coconut oil and many more. Trans fat foods include things like, baked goods, margarine, fried foods, potato chips, etc. Knowing the type of "bad fat" to look out for is important, but so is knowing what the "good fats" are. Monounsturated fats are found in olive/canola/sunflower/peanut/sesame oils, Avocados, olives and nuts. There is also Polyunsaturated fats that include, Soybean/corn/safflower oils, walnuts, Seeds such as sunflower, sesame, pumpkin and flaxseeds, fatty fish like salmon and tuna, soymilk and tofu. These types of fats have heath benifits because they are good for the heart and also cholesterol. Fats disgest differently than the other molecules dessuted earlier, because the fat does not dissolve into the the disgestive juices. Bile which is produced by the liver but is stored in the gallbladder, are able to attach to the fat molcules and break it up into smaller particles, but lipase which is a fat-disgesting enzyme can break it down. It gets broke down into fatty acids and chlesterol which are then absorbed through the intestinal wall to the bloodstream. The fat is then stored in the body to be used as energy when it is
Cholesterol can lead up to coronary heart disease. This is where deposits of lipids cause plaque build-up restricting the blood flow to the heart which
A molecule of dietary fat typically consists of several fatty acids (containing long chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms), bonded to a glycerol. They are typically found as triglycerides (three fatty acids attached to one glycerol backbone). Fats may be classified as saturated or unsaturateddepending on the detailed structure of the fatty acids involved. Saturated fats have all of the carbon atoms in their fatty acid chains bonded to hydrogen atoms, whereas unsaturated fats have some of these carbon atoms double-bonded, so their molecules have relatively fewer hydrogen atoms than a saturated fatty acid of the same length. Unsaturated fats may be further classified as monounsaturated (one double-bond) or polyunsaturated (many double-bonds). Furthermore, depending on the location of the double-bond in the fatty acid chain, unsaturated fatty acids are classified as omega-3 or omega-6 fatty acids. Trans fats are a type of unsaturated fat with trans-isomer bonds; these are rare in nature and in foods from natural sources; they are typically created
"Yeah, start drinking early. [...] Get nice and rowdy. 4:15 game, lot of time to get lubed up. Come out here, and cheer for the home team."