Hidden Dangers of Overeating

This item actually spells out the direct impact of simple chronic overeating which is essentially endemic in North America and becoming so everywhere.  The fact is that even apparently healthy and slim individuals can accumulate unwelcome fat in the liver.

 

Thus since we are likely all victims, it is wise to be aware at least of the message in this article here.

The interesting question is what strategies actually work?  I fast on Tuesday and Thursday from morning through early evening providing myself with a twenty hour fast stretch and a dormancy period for my small intestine.  This has led me to lose fifty pounds of clear surplus weight.  I am not sure what the change in my liver’s fat content might have been.

It could well be that eating properly is more important that simply keeping the weight off.  This clearly needs to be better understood.

The Hidden Dangers of Overeating

August 29, 2013

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/270583-the-hidden-dangers-of-overeating/

Older generations say: “Eat only until 70 to 80 percent full.” It sounds simple, but it may just be part of the solution to fatty liver syndrome.

Fatty liver syndrome, as the name suggests, is the accumulation of fat in the cells of the liver that can sometimes damage liver cells. The damage is often considered insignificant, but may cause scarring, known as fibrosis, which may progress to cirrhosis, which impairs liver function.

Once fibrotic tissue has formed, it is hard to restore the liver back to its original state. You could talk about the breakthroughs in modern medicine, but there is not one single drug that is able to cure it.

Exercising, resting, and not drinking alcohol may all help fatty liver syndrome. However, it is only possible to stop the liver from further deterioration to more serious conditions such as cirrhosis.

Nowadays, the importance of proper eating is often overlooked. People don’t really pay attention to it. They’ll eat raw meat at barbecue restaurants or wherever they can get a better deal; they’ll go to buffets and eat their heart out because they have to get their money’s worth regardless of how sick they feel afterwards – this is a huge burden on the body.

According to Chinese medicine: “Thin people have heat, fat people have phlegm.” Phlegm is the excess mucus occurring in and secreted from the respiratory passages, mainly the lungs, throat, and sinuses. Chinese medicine calls it “congealed moisture,” and it opposes the body’s vital energy, or qi.

While qi is light and flowing, phlegm is just the opposite—thick and stagnating. Chinese medicine also holds that phlegm contains fat. Many weight-loss prescriptions in ancient Chinese medicine aimed at transforming or clearing phlegm, which is also the basis of treating fatty liver syndrome.

Drugs lower the body’s cholesterol and triglycerides, but do we have medicine to eliminate fat within the cells of the liver?

Chinese medicine uses meridian-guiding drugs, where drugs with the right pharmacological properties are transported to certain meridians to exert their intended effects. Meridians are the energy lines connecting the organs and limbs.

All organs and meridians have their own meridian-guiding drugs. For example, liver drugs include Chinese thorowax (Bupleurum chinense), the root of the large-flowered Baikal skullcap (Scutellaria baicalensis), and oyster shells.

If we combine drugs that clear phlegm with drugs that transform phlegm and use meridian-guiding drugs to guide it to the liver, then we can get rid of the fat in the liver. Once the phlegm has been cleared, on examining the liver, the fatty substances in the liver will have decreased.

The liver itself may look different; you can see it change slowly. How to treat fatty liver syndrome? A balance of rest and exercise. Ancient books say that you must go to sleep before 11 p.m.

Rest, exercise, and eat a little less—eat only until you are 70 to 80 percent full. That is the best way to stay healthy.