What causes fatty liver?

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Obese people are more familiar with fatty liver. In fact, fatty liver refers to the pathological changes caused by excessive accumulation of fat in liver cells due to various reasons. It is a common pathological change of liver rather than an independent disease. What causes fatty liver? Now let's take a look.

What causes fatty liver?

First: alcohol is the first killer of liver damage. After alcohol enters the human body, it is mainly catabolized in the liver. The toxicity of alcohol to hepatocytes causes the disturbance of fatty acid catabolism in hepatocytes, resulting in fatty liver due to fat deposition in the liver. The more alcohol you drink, the more likely fatty liver is.

Second: long term intake of excessive animal fat, vegetable oil, protein and carbohydrate, these foods in the body can not be fully utilized, excess nutrients will be converted into fatty liver storage. It leads to obesity, hyperlipidemia and fatty liver

Third: obese people are easy to get fatty liver, but it does not mean that thin people can not get fatty liver, often existing people are thin also get fatty liver. This is due to long-term malnutrition, lack of certain proteins and vitamins, resulting in nutritional deficiency fatty liver

matters needing attention

1. Reasonable diet. The three meals a day should be reasonably allocated to achieve the balance of nutrition, and sufficient protein can remove the fat in the liver. Abstinence, smoking cessation, eat less too greasy food, control fat intake, especially to avoid animal fat intake. 2. Exercise properly. Daily physical exercise, depending on their physical fitness to choose appropriate sports, such as jogging, playing table tennis, badminton and other sports. We should start from small amount of exercise, gradually reach the appropriate amount of exercise, in order to strengthen the consumption of body fat.