Functional foods and dyslipidemia

Abstract

Dyslipidemia is an asintomatic condition in its early stages and it is one of the main risk factor for cardiovascular disease and its one of the first places in mortality in Mexico. Advances in food development and the new techiques to study the impact of the consumption of the food it has facilitated the development of funtional food specifically for dyslipidemia. This kind of food can be clasified as probiotic and not probiotic, probiotic group can add microorganisms to the food and usually are used in dairy products, no probiotic food are a wide range of food to wich they can add molecules with specific function. In both cases their consume contributes to reduce total colesterol, low density colesterol (cLDL) and in some cases improves high density colesterol (cHDL) or triglycerides and with this had favorable impact on the person to reduce their cardiovascular risk