On Cholesterol Related Premature Death of South Asian Immigrants in America
Prakash Bom
August 20, 2008
Average south Asian immigrants who have come to America are middle class of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka whose whole infant life for generations have been nourished with the fatty water-buffalo-milk products. The water-buffalo-milk is high in LDL (low-density-lipid) cholesterol, which causes cardiovascular disease, and heavy in lactose or milk sugar that cause diabetes.
South Asians´ pride has long been in consuming pure milk and curd without single drop of water added and in the flavor of Ghee. It is still believed that Ghee will make them livelong to reach salvation. The scientific facts have not yet drawn their attention even coming to America, which has stricken premature sudden death. Specifically, in the goodnight sleep after a grand dinner of pride either by the brain-stroke or the heart-attach that chocked the life off for their family to grief over it.
It is of course a great loss but not worst if one is dead with the brain-stroke or the heart attack if not paralyzed at his or her early age. The chance is greater to get survived with the paralysis if one gets severe brain-stroke or heart-attach in his or her middle age before sixty. But between sixty and seventy even survived with the paralysis will die in short period - less than a year. However, after seventy chances for survival is slim. It may be the best way to get salvation in the old age!
American food market has given South Asian immigrants ample of opportunity to have such grand dinner of pride – Basmati rice saturated, chicken thigh or lamb kebab soaked in Ghee and rice pudding in pure whole milk at least a week at the most affordable price. Affordable milk and chicken thigh have skyrocketed their appetite without a second thought for sake of their health and physical fitness.
First of all, South Asian middle class immigrants have come to America with their genetic make-up of high LDL cholesterol and diabetes. But if they keep indulging with whole milk, pure-ghee, fatty-chicken-thigh and protein-rich mutton as often as they can then the health and physical fitness scenario of South Asian immigrant community of America is precarious.
Each community of South Asian country must do something about it to make their family aware of the danger. For example, cooking with oil that has monounsaturated and polyunsaturated such as Canola and olive are better than saturated oil such as Ghee, trans-fat and hydrogenated oil either soy or corn. But even one consumes such a high-saturated food he or she must do some physical exercise regularly such as joining a gym or martial art or marathon or summing pool.
Learning a basic discipline of martial art such as Karate helps a great deal to be sensitive about the body movements. It can be the same outcome of doing Yoga in a regular basis but metabolizing a high-saturated diet will need more than just Yoga. Yoga is ideal for those who eat healthy low calorie and low unsaturated diet. As per yoga, the less you eat the longer you live and the healthier you become and so is the findings of modern medical science for adults.
I humbly request American Nepali community to make their members aware of their health and physical fitness by informing them to eat low saturated food as well as encouraging them to join martial art school such as Karate once a week with their family and learn about it http://www.usoyama.com/ online. It is well known that if one repeats thirty times anything in his or her life becomes spontaneous or habit. Therefore, it is good to repeat thirty times healthy things in one´s life then injurious.
I personally go regularly to Astoria sport Gym and twice a week to Astoria Oyama Karate School - a traditional Japanese Karate School. This school not only teaches karate to professional but also to all family members together – parents and children with the Japanese Karate school tradition. It is not that expensive – as a new member one can begin with $49.99 first, which includes all Karate uniforms. Please visit the website of http://astoria.karatebaka.com and sign up if you are living in this neighborhood.
Cholesterol is made up of HDL, LDL and Triglycerides. HDL is high-density lipid found in monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats such as canola, olive, avocado and fish oil, and is the most essential lipid for the cardiovascular health and brain.
LDL cholesterol is low-density lipid found in most saturated fat such as in beef, buff, mutton, chicken-thigh, dairy products, egg-yolk, coconuts, trans-fat, hydrogenated oil and so on is the cause of cardiovascular diseases such as hearth-attack and brain-stoke. LDL can be genetically build-in factors in persons who have high level LDL such as in the average middle class population of South Asians.
Triglyceride is the major cause of brain-stroke can be managed with the eating discipline of unsaturated fat and exercise. The chance of increasing Triglyceride is greater if consumption of the saturated particularly trans and hydrogenated fat is high, specially after the age of 40 without any exercise regardless of high LDL genetic make-up or not. The increase of Triglyceride boosts LDL and vise versa.
I like to request online radios of American Nepali community to run programs on food that causes cholesterols and on south Asians´ genetic make-up that is disposed of LDL cholesterol in order to make members of Nepali community in North America aware of.
I would appreciate if local news paper such as Kantipur Nepali, radio and TV in Nepal can make Nepali people aware of cardiovascular health. Particularly, Nepali people have to know about the kind of vegetable oils they consume, which are hydrogenated and infuse with trans-fat. In American market except for olive and Canola rest are hydrogenated if not loaded with trans-fat.
I strongly recommend whether one has insurance or not every members of Nepali community in America must go for the blood test if one is older than forty years to find out about the level of one´s cholesterols. If the LDL cholesterol is high but not yet in risk level than one can control it taking supplements such as vitamin B Niacin and fish oil from off the counter of the pharmacy or one or vitamin stores. Taking such supplements regularly after the age of 50 will always help maintain good level of cholesterols. The preventative measures will be the same to all middle class Nepali wherever they are residing around the globe.
South Asians´ pride has long been in consuming pure milk and curd without single drop of water added and in the flavor of Ghee. It is still believed that Ghee will make them livelong to reach salvation. The scientific facts have not yet drawn their attention even coming to America, which has stricken premature sudden death. Specifically, in the goodnight sleep after a grand dinner of pride either by the brain-stroke or the heart-attach that chocked the life off for their family to grief over it.
It is of course a great loss but not worst if one is dead with the brain-stroke or the heart attack if not paralyzed at his or her early age. The chance is greater to get survived with the paralysis if one gets severe brain-stroke or heart-attach in his or her middle age before sixty. But between sixty and seventy even survived with the paralysis will die in short period - less than a year. However, after seventy chances for survival is slim. It may be the best way to get salvation in the old age!
American food market has given South Asian immigrants ample of opportunity to have such grand dinner of pride – Basmati rice saturated, chicken thigh or lamb kebab soaked in Ghee and rice pudding in pure whole milk at least a week at the most affordable price. Affordable milk and chicken thigh have skyrocketed their appetite without a second thought for sake of their health and physical fitness.
First of all, South Asian middle class immigrants have come to America with their genetic make-up of high LDL cholesterol and diabetes. But if they keep indulging with whole milk, pure-ghee, fatty-chicken-thigh and protein-rich mutton as often as they can then the health and physical fitness scenario of South Asian immigrant community of America is precarious.
Each community of South Asian country must do something about it to make their family aware of the danger. For example, cooking with oil that has monounsaturated and polyunsaturated such as Canola and olive are better than saturated oil such as Ghee, trans-fat and hydrogenated oil either soy or corn. But even one consumes such a high-saturated food he or she must do some physical exercise regularly such as joining a gym or martial art or marathon or summing pool.
Learning a basic discipline of martial art such as Karate helps a great deal to be sensitive about the body movements. It can be the same outcome of doing Yoga in a regular basis but metabolizing a high-saturated diet will need more than just Yoga. Yoga is ideal for those who eat healthy low calorie and low unsaturated diet. As per yoga, the less you eat the longer you live and the healthier you become and so is the findings of modern medical science for adults.
I humbly request American Nepali community to make their members aware of their health and physical fitness by informing them to eat low saturated food as well as encouraging them to join martial art school such as Karate once a week with their family and learn about it http://www.usoyama.com/ online. It is well known that if one repeats thirty times anything in his or her life becomes spontaneous or habit. Therefore, it is good to repeat thirty times healthy things in one´s life then injurious.
I personally go regularly to Astoria sport Gym and twice a week to Astoria Oyama Karate School - a traditional Japanese Karate School. This school not only teaches karate to professional but also to all family members together – parents and children with the Japanese Karate school tradition. It is not that expensive – as a new member one can begin with $49.99 first, which includes all Karate uniforms. Please visit the website of http://astoria.karatebaka.com and sign up if you are living in this neighborhood.
Cholesterol is made up of HDL, LDL and Triglycerides. HDL is high-density lipid found in monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats such as canola, olive, avocado and fish oil, and is the most essential lipid for the cardiovascular health and brain.
LDL cholesterol is low-density lipid found in most saturated fat such as in beef, buff, mutton, chicken-thigh, dairy products, egg-yolk, coconuts, trans-fat, hydrogenated oil and so on is the cause of cardiovascular diseases such as hearth-attack and brain-stoke. LDL can be genetically build-in factors in persons who have high level LDL such as in the average middle class population of South Asians.
Triglyceride is the major cause of brain-stroke can be managed with the eating discipline of unsaturated fat and exercise. The chance of increasing Triglyceride is greater if consumption of the saturated particularly trans and hydrogenated fat is high, specially after the age of 40 without any exercise regardless of high LDL genetic make-up or not. The increase of Triglyceride boosts LDL and vise versa.
I like to request online radios of American Nepali community to run programs on food that causes cholesterols and on south Asians´ genetic make-up that is disposed of LDL cholesterol in order to make members of Nepali community in North America aware of.
I would appreciate if local news paper such as Kantipur Nepali, radio and TV in Nepal can make Nepali people aware of cardiovascular health. Particularly, Nepali people have to know about the kind of vegetable oils they consume, which are hydrogenated and infuse with trans-fat. In American market except for olive and Canola rest are hydrogenated if not loaded with trans-fat.
I strongly recommend whether one has insurance or not every members of Nepali community in America must go for the blood test if one is older than forty years to find out about the level of one´s cholesterols. If the LDL cholesterol is high but not yet in risk level than one can control it taking supplements such as vitamin B Niacin and fish oil from off the counter of the pharmacy or one or vitamin stores. Taking such supplements regularly after the age of 50 will always help maintain good level of cholesterols. The preventative measures will be the same to all middle class Nepali wherever they are residing around the globe.
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