Fatty Liver interested in discussing because I found quite a lot of people with fatty liver.

We know, today’s modern life, high-calorie diet and physical activity, easy to make a person fat fast. And fat people are always associated with excess fat. We can see from, for example, a distended abdomen, upper arms, or large thighs.

But today we are not dealing with the visible fat from the outside but we will look fat in internal organs are not visible or fatty liver is known as Fatty Liver disease. Fatty liver is a type of chronic liver disease.

What Is Fatty Liver

Fatty liver is a condition in which the existence of excessive accumulation of fat in liver cells. Actually, we are normal for fatty liver. But if the weight of fat has more than 10% of the weight of the liver itself, so that some cells of healthy liver is replaced by fat cells, it was not normal. Liver had changed color to yellow because of fat, shiny, bigger and heavier than normal. This is called fatty liver.

Fatty liver is usually not dangerous, because the liver function was not affected. But for the long term potential to fatty liver often cause liver damage and cirrhosis of the liver.

Types of fatty liver disease can be started from steatosis (fatty liver only), steatohepatitis (fatty liver accompanied by inflammation). This situation can occur because:

• Excessive alcohol consumption is called ASH (alcoholic Steatohepatitis)
• Non alcoholic is called NASH (Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis).

Fatty liver associated with alcohol use can occur with just as much to drink 10oz (+ 300 ml) of alcohol a week.

Fatty Liver Symptoms

Fatty liver is rarely a major complaint, because this fat accumulation occur slowly. Clinical symptoms of patients complained of at most stomach feels full, it is because most of the fat accumulated on top of the heart. Continues, abdominal gut area sometimes feels hard. At the time the disease worsened, the patient may experience fatigue, pain in the abdomen, and weak.

Usually people do not know if he suffered from fatty liver, and they found out after doing a full check-up because of other diseases.

Before proceed, could explain a little what the function of our liver?

A very good question. Very important for us to know what the function of our liver. Why? Because the health and vitality of someone many depending on liver health.

Understanding our liver

Heart or liver is the largest organ in our body, which is also the largest gland in the body. Liver is a remarkable machine and a laboratory alone. Liver is located directly below the chest on the right side of the abdomen and spread to the middle to the left side. Liver protected by the rib cage. In adults the liver weight of about 1.2 – 1.5 kg and dark red.

Heart has so many functions and very complex. The heart is the vital organs and death often occurs between 8 to 24 hours after the heart stops working.

Like an oil refinery plant, the liver processes many chemicals that the body needs, for example modify carbohydrates, fats and proteins into essential chemicals the body needs to live and grow. Producing bile which is needed to help digest food and absorb important nutrients. Heart provides the enzymes needed for metabolism,

Helps blood clotting, producing some kind of hormone.

The liver also stores several kinds of vitamins (A, D, K and B12), minerals (including iron), and sugar, regulate fat storage and control of production and excretion of cholesterol.

The liver also cleanse the blood of toxic substances. (including here the poison of drugs), should not all drugs successfully detoxified liver. The liver also metabolizes alcohol, helps prevent infection and remove bacteria from the bloodstream.

The conclusion was that the liver filters and detoxification everything we eat, inhaled, and absorbed through the skin.

So a healthy heart makes a healthy body but a sick heart disease prone body.

We’ll see, so much heart and hard work. Heart including the quiet man, a lot of work not much to complain. So many diseases related to heart, new symptoms arise after a severe. Like to complain because they do not last.

So if we want to be healthy, take care of our liver’s health, to avoid the diseases related to liver such as hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, liver cancer and fatty liver, which we are discussing now.

What is the cause of fatty liver

• Alcohol.
• Drugs. So do not like taking medicine.
• Disorder or hormonal changes such as pregnancy.
• Metabolic syndrome.
• Diabetes.
• Weight loss and malnutrition drastically.
• Modern lifestyle, many high-calorie meal. Eat a lot of calories can lead to fat in the liver accumulate. Source of high calories from fat (except alcohol). Plus not exercising.
• Obesity / Excess weight, especially fat in the abdomen.
  (please note, a healthy liver can regulate fat metabolism, not only that but it can remove excess fat through the bile. So if the liver was healthy then we will not be difficult to lose weight. Instead of fatty liver to burn fat instead of fat stores instead. Add hard lose weight. So for those of you who want to lose weight, detox is an effective way.At the time detox, sometimes weight loss will stop but do not be discouraged, this is because the fat in the liver that out. Be patient, because the accumulated fat also takes a long time is not it?
• Toxicity

Who is at risk of suffering from fatty liver

80% of patients are obese fatty liver to NASH (Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis). Increased risk for fatty liver are overweight and obese.
Patients Diabetes.
Patients · high triglycerides.

Age?

Fatty liver can occur at any age, even children who are overweight. Because the data in Indonesia does not exist, so I took the data from the United States. Patients with steatosis / fatty liver occurs in approximately 25-35% of the population there.

How to deal with fatty liver?

Handling was in accordance with the cause. If:

• Obesity, lower body weight. Weight loss safe is 1 / 2 pounds per week.
• Higher triglycerides, lower.
• Avoid alcohol, if alcohol consumption.
• Control diabetes if because of diabetes.

Diet and lifestyle should be changed. Eat a balanced nutritious diet, healthy and increase body activity.

A diet that is good how to prevent and treat fatty liver?

• Avoid foods, especially animal fat, avoiding fried and processed foods.
• Reduce the consumption of carbohydrates that have direfined eg white sugar, white bread, white rice, noodles, cakes, biscuits, pudding, etc..
• Avoid dairy products such as cow’s milk, cheese, cream or butter.
• Avoid all the margarine and the like.
• Avoid all food and sugary drinks.
• Avoid artificial sweeteners.
• Expand eat fruits and raw vegetables.
• Drink at least 2 liters of water a day.