In the TV series "Thirty Only", there is a plot in which the supporting actor is diagnosed with moderate fatty liver, and the wife, in order to control the development of his condition, begins to fast with her husband for dinner, drinking only juice to fill his hunger. It is also affected by these plots that many fatty liver patients think that as long as they do not eat dinner, they can play a role in controlling fatty liver.
The so-called drama is like life, with from life, but can fatty liver really be solved by fasting dinner?
The liver is the central organ of lipid metabolism in the body, and the main source of fat in the liver is food and peripheral adipose tissue. Under normal circumstances, adult liver tissue contains a small amount of fat, accounting for about 3 to 5% of the total liver weight.
Once the fat accumulation in the liver is too much, more than 5% of the liver weight, or when the histology examination finds that the liver cells have more than 50% steatosis, it can be diagnosed as fatty liver disease;
The metabolic abnormality mechanism that causes lipids to deposit within liver cells has not been fully understood until now. According to the available data, the reasons for the emergence of fatty liver include long-term overnutrition leading to obesity, long-term heavy alcoholism, malnutrition, diabetes and pregnancy, drugs and so on. According to the cause of the disease, it is divided into two categories: non-alcoholic and alcoholic fatty liver.
According to the severity of the disease, it is divided into three stages: mild, moderate and severe fatty liver. Mild fatty liver refers to the fat content exceeding about 5-10% of the liver weight, while the moderate fatty liver is more than 10 to 25%, and the severe fatty liver is more than 25%. Depending on the severity of the patient's condition, the clinical manifestations are different.
Mild fatty liver disease generally does not have any clinical symptoms, and the vast majority of patients know that the condition is accidental. However, moderate to severe fatty liver disease is different, they have similar manifestations of chronic hepatitis, such as fatigue and fatigue, loss of appetite, liver area pain and so on. According to the data available to the clinic, mild to moderate fatty liver can indeed be improved through life and dietary adjustments.
However, it is not a wise thing to quit dinner!
The reason for this is that the body's calories are mainly provided by various sugars, and skipping dinner will lead to insufficient intake of carbs. In order to provide the body with the energy to function, the body will mobilize the fat function that was originally stored in the body.
The lipolysis increases significantly in the short term, the glutathione inside the liver is gradually consumed, and a large number of harmful substances accumulate in the liver, such as malondialdehyde, lipid peroxides, etc., which will damage healthy liver cells.
Not only that, but prolonged fasting, excessive dieting, or other rapid weight loss measures can lead to malnutrition. After malnutrition leads to protein deficiency, the synthesis of apolipoproteins will be blocked, triglycerides can not function, and gradually deposited in the liver, which will also aggravate the symptoms of fatty liver.
Therefore, in the clinical view, if you want to actively control fatty liver and avoid its development to a severe stage, what patients have to do is not hunger strike, but to reduce weight and control waist circumference.
Especially for overweight and obese patients, through a healthy diet and strengthen life exercise is the most important, such as patients should actively and regularly carry out aerobic exercise, on the basis of a balanced diet, appropriately reduce the intake of high-calorie, high-fat foods, and maintain 6-7 points of fullness per meal as the best.