Xiaoteng, who succeeded in losing weight, was actually found to have fatty liver disease! She exclaimed that it was impossible. She had started a weight loss plan a month ago using winter weight loss pills. If she didn't have any fat, how could she possibly get this "disease of the obese"? However, the doctor said that it was precisely due to excessive dieting that led to the development of fatty liver disease, and reminded her that the best way to lose weight is to change unhealthy lifestyle habits.
Director Xu Changqing from the Gastroenterology Department at Qianfo Mountain Hospital in Shandong Province said, don't assume that only those who are overweight due to excessive nutrition can get fatty liver disease; malnutrition, excessive or rapid weight loss can also lead to fatty liver disease.
According to outpatient statistics from Jinan Infectious Disease Hospital over the past year, 25% of women who visited the clinic had fatty liver disease, among which as high as 30% of women suffered from varying degrees of fatty liver disease due to blind dieting.
Xu Changqing explained that when women diet, they eat very little staple food or even no staple food at all, just fruits and vegetables, leading to insufficient intake of energy substances such as glucose. When the body cannot obtain the necessary glucose, it will mobilize the fat and protein stored in other parts of the body to convert them into glucose, resulting in an increase in free fatty acids in the serum. A large amount of fatty acids entering the liver, combined with the lack of necessary enzymes and vitamins for lipid metabolism in the body, causes fat to linger in the liver, leading to fatty liver disease due to rapid weight loss.
Blind dieting for weight loss can easily induce fatty liver disease, but according to a recent weight loss survey from Qianfo Mountain Hospital in Shandong Province, as high as 73% of women have engaged in dieting for weight loss, spending an average of half a year out of every year dieting, while 22% of women, in pursuit of the perfect figure, have almost made dieting their lifelong "career".
This study surveyed the weight loss situation of 1,185 women aged 18 to 30 and found that regardless of their weight, 73% of women practiced rapid weight loss through dieting, among which 35.9% were currently undergoing weight loss.