High cholesterol and Obese Children

High cholesterol levels are closely related with your obese child and the problems that may occur, such as disease of the artery and heart attack. These problems usually occur at older ages, but because of specific conditions causing the extra weight, they begin to appear at an earlier age. This might be traumatic news and don’t easy to accept to the mother and father who don’t want to think that their child’s arteries have no differences from those of a middle-aged man.

High levels of cholesterol simple mean that a person has considerable cholesterol buildup inside the arteries. When blood tries to travel via the blood vessels, it gets captured by the cholesterol, creating a blood clot. Eventually, the blood clot may escape and two options are created:

  • it can possibly go to the heart and cause a heart attack or
  • tranfered to the brain and create a stroke

Cholesterol is usually a soft material that can be found inside our blood and cells. It’s mainly production start from the liver, but we can also obtain it from external sources and that happens when we eat animal-based foods, for example egg yolks, meat, or fish. Cholesterol is usually a soft material that can be found inside our blood and cells. It’s mainly production start from the liver, but we can also obtain it from external sources and that happens when we eat animal-based foods, for example egg yolks, meat, or fish . Cholesterol is essential for proper functioning of our body and it is helpful in formatting cell membranes and a number of body hormones.

Cholesterol and other types of fats have the issue that can’t be dissolved in the blood and in order to be transported through the blood in circumstances where it is needed, the human body use two types of transfers which are called lipoproteins: low density lipoprotein (LDL) and high density lipoprotein (HDL). Protein and lipids are combined together to form lipoproteins (cholesterol and triglycerides belongs to the group of lipids, which are created from the liver).

We often hear the terms “bad cholesterol” or “good cholesterol” and that for a good reason. LDL is the “bad” one, because it has proven that high amount from it inside our blood tend to slowly but steady increase the inner walls of the arteries, preventing the blood to flow easily. HDL on the other side is the “good” one and but have two sides like a coin:

  • high levels from it appear to give us a protection against cardiac arrest
  • low levels increase the possibility for our heart to be damaged

It is a well known fact among the doctors that HDL (good cholesterol) assists by carrying the LDL (bad choresterol) away from the arteries and return it to the liver, so that to be taken off your body.

Continuing our analysis, triglycerides are also comes from the liver and can also enter the human body while eating animal-based foods. They are chains of fatty acids that are used to form the main energy stores that body can use for it functions. That energy stores are regulated by several hormones and when it is needed, triglycerides are released from fatty tissue in the form of energy that body can use.

Children having limited or not at all physical activity along with a diet quite high in carbohydrates are in a one-way road for having high triglyceride levels. These high levels can also lead to a high total cholesterol level, including a high LDL level and a low HDL level which ultimately can lead to heart disease and even stroke