Gonna have a little rant about one of the common outcomes of obesity right now - fatty liver
Approximately 1/3 of the US who have imaging studies of the abdomen show the result of "fatty liver" which means your liver is full of fat, which means its not functioning correctly
This interference with liver tissue will eventually result in a condition called NASH (non alcoholic steatohepatitis). NASH will then cause scar tissue called fibrosis. Enough fibrosis leads to cirrhosis
Fibrosis can sometimes be reversed but cirrhosis cannot be reversed. The only treatment is liver transplant. Most patients die while waiting for liver transplant. Death by liver failure is one of the most terrible deaths imaginable.
Fatty liver is a disease for the obese and with *very* few exceptions is caused by obesity and sedentarianism. If you want to know what health crisis threatens the US the most, my answer is the coming tsunami of liver failure this nation will see as our obese youth age.
There is NO TREATMENT for fatty liver other than weight loss. That's it - that should tell you something.
No fat acceptance, no body image self love, no "healthy at any size" bullsh*t will prevent or treat fatty liver, NASH or cirrhosis. Fatty liver is 100% treatable if weight loss is achieved and is 100% preventable by normal weight and exercize
Progression from fatty liver to NASH can take years, but progression from NASH to cirrhosis can be hella quick, often about a year. Cirrhosis is often not diagnosed until advanced. We need to take our weight and diet very seriously.
Very, very few in our corrupt government lapdog establishment of corporate medicine is seeing this for what it is. Modern US medicine is nearly 100% crisis management without any focus on prevention. KNOW THIS. You as individuals must focus your own health on prevention
A topic for another day is epidemic STD's which should scare the crap out of everyone but no one hears about. Lets just keep testing and treating and not recognizing its not working bcuz there is NO SUCH THING as safe sex folks
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