Your body is not just an efficient machine, helping you operate on a daily basis, it is also a warehouse-like storage facility that keeps energy stores you don’t use immediately upon ingestion. Triglycerides are one form of storage.
When you consume fats from foods like carbohydrates, and you aren’t doing anything strenuous that requires their use, your body will store them as triglycerides. Once converted to triglycerides, they will go into your fat cells and stay there until they are needed. When you have too many stored triglycerides, you could be on the road to diabetes mellitus (type 2 diabetes), pancreatitis, and heart disease.
Keeping your exercise levels and eating in check can help you prevent having high triglycerides. When you eat fewer foods that need to be stored and you use more energy to get rid of stored fat, you can reduce your triglyceride levels.
The first line of defense for keeping your triglycerides in check is to manage your nutrition and your weight. The lifestyle you adopt to sustain weight loss will almost always result in an improvement of the triglyceride levels in your blood.
In some cases, if your triglyceride levels are very high, your primary care physician may recommend a medication for lowering triglycerides. Even when on a medication, you must continue to eat right and exercise in order to help your triglyceride level normalize and reduce your risk of heart disease.