Diet and nutrition for Hepatitis: Foods to eat and avoid when you have a liver problem
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- 05 Sep 2022
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There are many confusions and misconceptions surrounding the ideal diet of a person suffering from liver diseases. The diet of a person effected by liver disease like hepatitis and liver cirrhosis must be balanced yet nutritious as it is a part of treatment therapy.
Importance of the liver
Liver is the seat of metabolism in the body. The large size of the liver is matched by its functional complexity and diversified involvement of regulatory mechanism. Whatever food we eat, after digestion passes through liver and it processes the food into various components.
A healthy liver makes glycogen from carbohydrate. The glycogen is then broken down when the body needs energy. A damaged liver cannot do this. Without glycogen, more carbohydrate is needed from the diet to make sure the body has enough energy.
About 85-90 percent of the blood that leaves the stomach and intestines carries important nutrients to the liver where the proteins are processed and broken down into amino acids, the carbohydrates into glucose molecules and the fats into fatty acids.
The vitamins and minerals are utilised in various enzymatic chemical reactions to break down and convert the food into utilisable form. The hepatocytes (liver cells) use various enzymes to perform these functions. Also, they prevent the entry of bacteria and viruses into our body. Read More...
