Life is nothing but making choices. We are all given options here and there. In relationships, you can be the aggressive one or the submissive one. With gadgets, we can either be techie or not. In fashion, you can be called a fashionista or a recessionista with only a few pennies or you can also be the one who is not familiar with the word thrift. With food, you can binge all you want or take another route and go healthy. This path is something we should all consider.
Whether you are a size 2 or a size 20, it is better if you go healthy. As they say, health is wealth. So by being healthy, we can call ourselves wealthy even if our bank accounts say otherwise.
Starting a healthier lifestyle is not that easy but with the will and determination, nothing is impossible. You can be what you always wanted to be. You can turn your high creatinine, high uric acid and high LDL (Low Density Lipoproteins) FBS (Fasting Blood Sugar) blood chemistry results upside down.
However, to be able to solve a problem, we must first be able to pin-point its cause. What triggers all the abnormalities? What brought about all the depressing high results?
CREATININE, according to medical books is a chemical waste molecule that is generated from muscle metabolism. Creatinine is produced from creatine, a molecule of major importance for energy production in muscles. Approximately 2% of the body's creatine is converted to creatinine every day. Creatinine is transported through the bloodstream to the kidneys. The kidneys filter out most of the creatinine and dispose of it in the urine.
A high creatinine level could indicate a kidney problem. Creatinine has been found to be a fairly reliable indicator of kidney function. As the kidneys become impaired the creatinine will rise. Abnormally high levels of creatinine thus warn of possible malfunction or failure of the kidneys, sometimes even before a patient reports any symptoms. It is for this reason that standard blood and urine tests routinely check the amount of creatinine in the blood. If your result goes between 0.6 and 1.2, you are on the safe side, and if not, you better change whatever the hell it is that you are doing wrong.
URIC ACID, is the broken down form of purine. Purine is a substance is found in foods and is produced naturally by the body. Avoidance of high purine foods obviously would lessen your uric acid level. High Purine foods are anchovies, fish eggs, fish such as herring and mackerel, sardines, scallops and mussels, meats, like goose, duck, and partridge, organ meats: brains, heart, kidney, liver, and sweetbreads, meat extracts, minced meat, broth, bouillon, gravy, yeast (baker's and brewer's) taken in the form of a supplement.
Limiting one’s purine intake is necessary for a healthier you.
LDL (Low Density Lipoproteins), Low density lipoproteins, or LDL, are a combination of a cholesterol and a protein that circulate through the body and carry cholesterol from the liver and small intestine to other tissues and cells in the body that need it.
It is something we commonly refer to as “bad cholesterol”.
An increased level of LDL means you are at high risk for heart attack, one of the topmost killer diseases in the world. In order to keep yourself on the safe zone, you must decide to undergo a lifestyle change. Change what you eat, how much you eat and how often you eat.
Avoid fatty foods. Avoid! Avoid! Avoid!
FBS (Fasting Blood Sugar). The sugar referred to here is the ‘insulin’. 54.96 to 116 is the normal range of FBS and anything higher is a no! no! An abnormally high FBS means you are a diabetic. If you overeat and becomes obese, Type 2 diabetes is very much likely to happen to you.
In this type of diabetes the receptors on cells in the body that normally respond to the action of insulin fail to be stimulated by it - this is known as insulin resistance.
In response to this, more insulin may be produced, and this overproduction exhausts the insulin-manufacturing cells in the pancreas. There is simply insufficient insulin available and the insulin that is available may be abnormal and so it doesn't work properly.
Now you know what to avoid, you can start a diet plan. Sticking to your diet plan could kick off of your lifestyle change and with head high and a big smile you can start saying goodbye to the old you and say hello to the new you!
References:
http://www.drugs.com/cg/low-purine-diet.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/diabetes/aboutdiabetes_causes.shtml
http://cholesterol.about.com/cs/cholesteroltypes/g/LDL.html
and from personal visits to different health specialists.
(PART 2 will cover what to eat, how much you eat and how often you eat it)
Food to be true, Augie Monica A. Miclat
BJ III-1D
Sunday, February 7, 2010
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