Everybody always thinks a lot about the good and the bad cholesterol, they always are like my bad cholesterol is up and my good cholesterol is down, but few people take into account the triglycerides, triglycerides are fatty acids that we all have around our body, actually all of our cell walls have triglycerides, so we can't live without them but the problem is when they go up, the normal value is less than 200mg/dl ( for diabetics this has to be lower , and also it depends on the laboratory that makes your test ) if you have more than 200, you have to worry because high triglycerides are as important as cholesterol when developing arteriosclerosis.