What is fatty liver disease?
Phrase"Liver increases light"good"Liver fat"Used to refer to ultrasound images of fatty liver disease.Normally, liver fat accounts for a much smaller proportion than liver weight, but due to eating, not scientific activities or by other metabolic disorders, which leads to a lot of fat accumulation in liver cells.Fatty liver disease.
The liver is a large organs in the human body and plays many important roles such as: Metabolizing substances, regulating sugar concentrations, handling toxic substances, producing bile yeast to support digestion, ...Capacitor too much fat in the liver or fatty liver will affect the liver function, worse than liver damage, hepatitis, liver failure or non -recovery cirrhosis.
According to the statistics of the Vietnam Hepatic Liver Association, the condition of non-alcoholic liver in our country, increasing, with nearly 50-60% of the Vietnamese population with fatty liver.This is an alarming number, but the understanding and awareness of disease in the community is still limited because people often care about the health of the liver when there is a serious manifestation of the disease such as impairment.liver or cirrhosis.
Causes of fatty liver is from living habits, excess fat diet, too much sugar absorption, drinking a lot of alcohol, sitting habits, sedentary, stressful, even inherited by geneticsIf there are obese people in the family ...
Currently, the treatment of fatty liver is still a big challenge for medicine because no drug has the ability to treat specific disease.The main treatment of fatty liver is still a weight loss of low -calorie diet, restricting saturated fat, starch and sugar, while improving the nutritional and exercise pattern.
How to prevent fatty liver
Normally, people with fatty liver often do not have any signs to identify the disease, so the proactive application of early fatty liver prevention methods is a way to help you protect your health and family effectively..Some methods of effectively prevent fatty liver you can apply such as:
Building a reasonable diet: daily diet rich in green vegetables, tubers and fruits.
Need to limit animal fat, internal organs, red meat instead should use oils from plants, from seeds and fish products, especially salmon because they provide low -fat protein, rich in omega acid -3, Very good for health when helping to reduce cholesterol levels, reduce the risk of fatty liver and cancer.
Minimize the use of alcohol, especially those who have mild fatty liver.
Enhance regular exercise: at least 30 minutes a day, avoid passive lifestyle, pay attention to weight (BMI index <25 kg/m2) and need to lose weight slowly if overweight.
A vaccination should be vaccinated with viral hepatitis A and b.Currently, there is no vaccine to prevent hepatitis C, so prevent infection and test periodically.
Be careful when using functional foods, drugs, herbs of unknown origin, when used, it is necessary to consult with a liver specialist.
Good management of background diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia ...
The general health check periodically at least once a year, which is needed to have a health check and liver function.Early detection of fatty liver is very important. It is very helpful for the treatment and prevention of complications of the disease.