You bet there is! That’s why we’ve been looking at liver function, and how to support and maintain a healthy liver in the last two blog postings. As stated previously – without your liver you cannot live, and without a healthy liver, you cannot be healthy. I’ll add to that by stating that an unhealthy diet will result in an unhealthy liver – making it all the more challenging to maintain a healthy weight.
One of the major aspects of nutrition and diet that is important is the amount of fat in your diet. Whether it is a greater portion or a lesser portion – either way it’s important to be able to efficiently process fats in order to get the proper nutrition, energy and vitamins that fats contain, and just to properly process the fats in one’s diet. An unhealthy liver can also play a part in a number of conditions like irritable bowel syndrome. Fatty liver disease and gallstones are two of the examples of results of complications from unhealthy conditions which then ripple through to other effects on your health.
Several diets claim to not only assist with weight loss, but also address some of the symptoms of fatty liver disease – and in some cases reverse the condition. According to the National Institutes of Health, weight loss is the generally recommended clinical management for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Some studies have demonsrated improvement of fatty liver disease on a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet.
In our next post we’ll begin looking into what a ketogenic diet is, and begin to explore some of the impact on your overall health from making this dietary approach part of your lifestyle.