For liver disease, many people know that hepatitis B is one of the main causes of liver cancer, with medical technology in recent years, especially the supplementation of drugs, the world has made great progress in the treatment of viral hepatitis, if according to this reasoning then the incidence of liver cancer should also have a large reduction. However, a survey of medical institutions in the United States found that the number of people with liver cancer did not decline, and then after in-depth research, it was found that the number of people who originally had non-alcoholic steatohepatitis has been increasing over the years.
With the change of eating habits, more people tend to high-fat, high-calorie diet, the proportion of fatty liver in China is getting higher and higher, it is currently estimated that about 30% of people have fatty liver, and even in clinical statistics, more than half of the people who seek medical treatment have fatty liver.
There are so many people suffering from fatty liver, at this time you will hear such remarks: fatty liver is not too harmful, there is no discomfort symptoms! In fact, we can't judge the severity of the disease from the perspective of whether there are symptoms alone, let alone ignore fatty liver, etc., because it may be a health crisis for each of us.
How does fatty liver come about and how to explain it? Its practical foie gras is explained most clearly. Many people have eaten foie gras, its taste is smooth and tender, melt in the mouth and get its name, especially the French foie gras sauce is famous all over the world. The reason why foie gras has such a taste is because foie gras contains a lot of oil; in order to produce good quality foie gras, farmers will let the geese eat excessive and high-calorie feed when feeding, resulting in the goose's liver continue to grow, and eventually become the raw material for foie gras.
Fatty liver is formed because too much fat accumulates in liver cells.
Therefore, the cause of fatty liver is simply that after people eat too many calories, they will be converted into triglycerides stored in these warehouses of fat cells, and will also begin to accumulate in internal organs; in addition to the function of fat metabolism, excess triglycerides will accumulate in liver cells, forming fatty liver of varying severity.
The most important source of food is carbohydrates and sugars, such as starchy foods, pastries, sugary drinks, etc., and these carbohydrates and sugars are eaten into the mouth more than the body load is used, and will still be converted into triglycerides, accumulated in the body's cell organs, resulting in obesity and fatty liver, so the food should also be screened at present, do not indulge the appetite of the tongue, resulting in health problems.
The first of course is people who are overweight and obese. Studies have shown that 90% of obese people have fatty liver disease. Other high-risk groups include: diabetes and family history of diabetes, hyperlipidemia, long-term need for steroids, and people with metabolic syndrome; in addition, people with hepatitis C are also more likely to develop fatty liver. And don't think that thin people don't have fatty liver, studies have found that about 10% of thin people also have fatty liver.
Fatty liver represents a bright red light for health
There have been studies abroad to follow up on non-alcoholic fatty liver patients, and found that 10% to 30% of people will enter the stage of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, and about 20% of these people will evolve into cirrhosis, and then in the next 10-20 years, it may lead to liver cancer.
I believe that many people know that they have a fatty liver, but most people do not care about such a phenomenon because they have no symptoms and the transformation of the liver is not very obvious; but once the simple fatty liver enters the stage of liver inflammation, there will still be a chance to enter the liver disease trilogy (there are also four steps, adding liver fibrosis), that is, hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver cancer.
Moreover, fatty liver is related to diabetes, hypertriglyceridemia, etc., all three of which are risk factors affecting health and are also easy to induce liver cancer!
Therefore, in the face of fatty liver, there must be a correct concept, that is, to take fatty liver as a warning of health dangers, and to grasp the control of fatty liver before it is further deteriorated, otherwise the next may not only be a threat of liver cancer, but even chronic diseases such as cardiovascular, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, stroke and so on.
Because fatty liver does not have special symptoms, most people are in the health examination, through the abdominal ultrasound this non-invasive examination method, to understand whether they have fatty liver, the current physical examination will generally have the diagnosis of abdominal color ultrasound, basically can have an understanding of the liver problems.
In addition to ultrasound, general CT scans, MRI and other instruments can also be used as a way to check fatty liver, but because such instruments are more expensive, some have radiation, used to check fatty liver is a bit overkill. In addition, if you want to understand the severity of fatty liver, you can consider using a liver fibrosis shock absorber, this kind of examination has no radiation and the examination time is short, but it is not yet popular, so the utilization rate is still much lower than that of abdominal ultrasound.
In addition to image examination, blood draw data also have important reference value. In particular, values such as blood glucose, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and liver function are also a reference index used by doctors in the diagnosis and treatment of fatty liver.
Abdominal ultrasound can intuitively see the liver problem, but the disadvantage is that the picture can not be datatized, clinical doctors will use the brightness of the liver and the right kidney cortex contrast to distinguish the severity of fatty liver.
Mild fatty liver
The brightness of the liver is widely but slightly increased than that of the right renal cortex, and the small blood vessels in the liver can still be seen clearly.
Moderate fatty liver
The brightness of the liver increases extensively and moderately compared to that of the right renal cortex, and the images of small blood vessels in the liver are less clear.
Severe fatty liver
The brightness of the liver is widely and very significantly increased than that of the right renal cortex, and images of small blood vessels in the liver and deep liver are difficult to see.
Although fatty liver can be distinguished into light, moderate and severe, but in fact, it is not possible to judge whether the liver is inflamed and fibrotic simply by the severity of ultrasound, so do not think that mild fatty liver is fine, some patients although ultrasound diagnosis is mild fatty liver, but the blood draw found that the indicators of liver function are very high, representing that the liver is in a state of inflammation, and further early treatment of the cause of hepatitis is needed to avoid continuous development.
Fatty liver disease is a signal of liver disease, be sure to carry out regular examination and follow-up review; if you are also a patient with viral hepatitis, at least every six months or so, you must do an abdominal ultrasound, and don't forget to draw blood. If cirrhosis is combined, the examination time must be more frequent, advance to less than 3-6 months; if there is no viral hepatitis, people who simply suffer from fatty liver disease, in order to understand the liver condition, it is recommended to have a physical examination every year, do an abdominal ultrasound, and draw blood to see if there is any abnormality in liver function, whether triglycerides are abnormal, and whether there is a high blood sugar.
In addition, patients with fatty liver, there are some cases of fatty pancreas, that is, fat in addition to accumulating liver, can also accumulate to the pancreas, pancreatic fat is too much, will affect the secretion of insulin, improve insulin resistance, resulting in abnormal glucose metabolism, there will be a risk of diabetes in the future.
For diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension and other diseases, there are now drugs that can be well controlled, many people will ask, why does the fatty liver not have it? In fact, there are currently no drug applications for fatty liver, but there are drugs that are currently in clinical trials, so it may take some time to achieve if you want to treat fatty liver with drugs.
So, how can we improve fatty liver?
Fatty liver can be said to be mostly a disease from the mouth of the civilized disease, now there is no drug that determines the efficacy can eliminate fatty liver, but domestic and foreign studies are showing that fatty liver can be reversed, the only recommended way is healthy weight loss; as long as you can reduce the existing weight of 5%-10%, the severity of fatty liver may be improved. Clinically, patients have lost 15 kilograms of weight in a healthy way in 2 years, and their fatty liver has gone from severe to disappear, which shows that as long as the method is right, fatty liver can be successfully reversed.
It is recommended that people with fatty liver can be divided into 3 steps to carry out a plan for cellulite and liver protection.
Step 1: Choose the right food
In addition to eating a less oily diet, it is also recommended to quit sugary drinks, which contain more fructose and are the health killers who are most likely to cause disease.
According to a dietary study in the United States, as long as the diet of high fructose is withdrawn for 9 days, it is found that such dietary adjustments have significantly improved the fatty liver compared with the changes before and after the fatty liver, indicating how much fructose is harmful to fat accumulation and health.
Why is the same monosaccharide fructose as glucose, and the effect is so serious? Because fructose is very sweet, it is usually used to replace sugar, and many studies have found that fructose will cause many health hazards, such as: causing abnormal fat metabolism in the body, leading to hardening of blood vessels, forming cardiovascular disease and fatty liver. In addition, studies have found that fructose increases the risk of gout, and is even associated with some tumors.
In addition to picking food, portions are also quite important. It is recommended to set a halved sugary diet at the beginning, that is, the number of high-sugar diets that were originally used to be halved first, including sweets, sugary drinks, alcohol, high-starch staple foods, high-sugar fruits, etc., because too much sugar in the body is finally converted into triglycerides stored in the body. After two weeks of the halving plan, it is recommended to carry out the next sugar halving plan, so that the withdrawal from high-sugar foods is slowly implemented, so that the body can adapt, there will be no recurrence, and the long-lasting process will help maintain the ideal weight.
Step 2: Hyperactivity improves quickly
In addition to a healthy diet with low sugar, less oil and less salt, exercise is an important secret recipe for our fight against disease. Studies have shown that as long as you walk fast for 10 minutes a day, you can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease!
Of course, for weight loss and elimination of fatty liver, only brisk walking for 10 minutes is not enough, to achieve the purpose of fat loss, remember to match some medium and high-intensity exercise, that is, it is necessary to achieve a little breathing and sweating, it is best to reach more than 30 minutes, so that exercise will have a more fat-reducing effect. The study found that after exercise diet will be a little more than normal, but enough exercise will not increase weight, but will reduce the damage to health of visceral fat, and within 30 minutes of exercise to eat higher protein foods, it is easier to increase muscle mass.
Step 3: Check up regularly and seek medical attention as soon as possible
If you can accurately implement the above two steps of the fat loss liver protection plan, I believe that it will be very helpful for restoring normal body shape and eliminating fatty liver; if you find that you have worked hard to implement it, but still do not see significant results, then you need to find a specialist to conduct a complete liver and endocrine examination to rule out diseases such as liver disease and endocrine factors. Patients who have made clinical efforts to lose weight, but whose fatty liver degree has not improved, only to find out that they have hepatitis C after medical examination, so regular examination is also very important.
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