Fatty liver is a globally common clinical phenomenon. In general, a prosperous economy, improved living standards, too much high-fat diet and the increasing elderly population ratio all lead to increasing the incidence of fatty liver. It is estimated that now about 25% of the people may occur fatty liver. But many people fail to figure out that even though fatty liver seems to be a fat person disease, but some thin men still can not escape from the fatty liver.
The common causes of fatty liver are as follows:
Being long-term addicted to alcohol
Alcohol is the No. 1 killer of the liver that is because after the alcohol get into the body, it is mainly be metabolized in the liver. The toxicity of alcohol on the liver cells makes liver cells to break down fatty acids and metabolic disorder occurs, causing intrahepatic fat deposition to become fatty liver. The more alcohol people take in, the more serious the fatty liver is. At the same time the alcohol not only causes the fatty liver, but also induce liver fibrosis even the liver cirrhosis. If men drinking 50-degree wine 80 grams per day and women drinking 50 grams for 5 consecutive years, they are at the risk of fatty liver. 40 ~ 80 grams of alcohol taking every day is a predictive point of danger. If people take more amount of alcohol than this standard, the incident ratio of being sick will increased very significantly.
Having taken excessive nutrition
Long-term in taking of excessive animal fat, vegetable oil, protein and carbohydrates, human bodies can not digest all them well, so the excessive nutrients will be converted into stored fat, leading to obesity, high blood lipids, and fatty liver. The population of China's obese persons has been more than 7 000 million, thereinto the primary and secondary urban students of obesity are more than 20%. The number of the group of obese people is growing of the level of 5-year doubling.