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03/12/2025 09:08:19 am

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Vegetarian can get Three-Hyper Diseases

People may still develop Three-Hyper Disease, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, hypertension or HTN even they are vegetarian. A forties woman goes through the physical examination, and finds out that she has developed the Three-Hyper Diseases. She says she has been a vegetarian for more than ten years, and wonders how come she would have these diseases. The doctor asks her eating habit, and points out that the reasons may be the fried food.

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Dr. Chan, the attending physician of cardiology from Taipei Veterans General Hospital says, the woman wakes up early, goes to bed late, which means she needs lots of energy to support the daily life. Furthermore, vegetarians feel hungry more easily than other people who maintain normal dietary. In that case, she has to have late night food, such as cookies, instant noodles, cakes containing calories and much more fat. The manufacturers have to add more food additive to make this kind of food tasty for people.

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Dr. Chan also voice that he has seen quite amount of similar cases the vegetarians has Three-Hyper Diseases. They thing they have healthier lives. However, they cook the food with too more oil, which contributes these diseases. The rule of establishing healthier dietary is to eat the food with less production and avoid the fried food.

Hyperlipemia means value is higher than normal value either in total cholesterol, triglyceride, or in low density lipoprotein cholesterol; or the value is lower than normal value in high density lipoprotein cholesterol.

Dr. Chan continues saying, the drug is effective for controlling high cholesterol in general. People who know they have the high cholesterol disease should alter the living habit, like via dietary control method, regular work-out, smoking cessation, weight loss. If these methods do not help, the patients should contact the physicians as soon as possible. For those patients who have cardiovascular diseases, they should see the physicians earlier and corporate with the treatment. 

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