Another way in which exercise reduces your risk of suffering from coronary artery disease, and other diseases, is by protecting you against the dangers of excessive triglycerides. Triglycerides are the fats in your blood, and triglyceride levels rise when you eat foods containing fat. Ingesting alcohol and the refined carbohydrates found in cakes, pies, ice cream, candy, white-flour bread, pasta, etc., will also prompt a rise in your triglycerides. One of the problems with triglycerides is that they can help damage or plug arteries. If the triglycerides rise to very high levels, they can cause other diseases such as pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas). Pancreatitis may manifest itself as frequent episodes of upper abdominal pain. If it is severe enough it can lead to death.
We’re all familiar with a very common problem associated with excess triglycerides: the fat that accumulates on us as our body stuffs triglycerides into fat cells. The only sensible way to get them out is by exercise and diet. With vigorous exercise, the tryglycerides are pulled from the fat cells and broken down into free fatty acids, which the muscle cells can use for energy.
More serious, however, is the connection between fat and cancer. Everything you can do to keep your fat levels low— including exercise—is vitally important to avoid the killer cancers.
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