Steatohepatitis diseases treatment

March 20, 2017

Steatohepatitis diseases treatment needs time action and must be done professionally

Steatohepatitis diseases treatment: Nonalcoholic fatty liver complication

In our previous article we looked at the causes and consequences of nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases (NAFLD) and steatohepatitis disease broadly. Guided by that we want to find treatment solutions of this uncalled for health condition. Whereas prevention is the best approach of all possible health conditions, we often find ourselves suffering from certain health conditions which could have otherwise been prevented. Therefore if you are in anyway suffering from any weight related condition, help is on the way at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under Doctor Akoury’s care. Doctor Akoury is an expert of several decades of experience in matters relating to overweight, obesity, addiction and beauty among many other disciplines. She has been of great help to many people across the globe and your situation will be very safe in her care. You can schedule for an appointment with her even as we get into the discussion about treating nonalcoholic fatty liver and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis diseases (NASH) progressively.

Steatohepatitis diseases treatment: NAFLD and NASH

Accumulation of fat in the liver (fatty liver) is common in all stages of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The initial stage in the spectrum of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is fatty liver (steatosis).
The basic cause of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is insulin resistance, a condition in which the effects of insulin on cells within the body are reduced. The most frequent risk factor for insulin resistance is obesity, especially abdominal obesity.
Fatty liver is itself quite harmless, disappears rapidly with loss of weight, and infrequently progresses to Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, which is the next stage of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
In Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis there is accumulation of fat in the liver, but there also is inflammation (hepatitis), destruction (necrosis) of liver cells, and scarring (fibrosis) of the liver. The scarring can progress to cirrhosis, which is the last stage of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
The risk factors, the time-line, and the processes (mechanisms) responsible for progression through the stages of Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease are still unclear.
The presumptive diagnosis of Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease or Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis is made in individuals who are insulin resistant, have mildly elevated liver enzymes in the blood, and have signs of fatty liver on an ultrasound. These patients must have no other cause for the abnormal enzymes or for the fatty liver, particularly no excessive use of alcohol.
If weight loss results in a decrease or normalization of the liver enzymes, the diagnosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is practically assured. Only a liver biopsy, however, can confirm the diagnosis of Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and determine the severity of the disease.
Whether or not it is vital to perform a liver biopsy in individuals with suspected nonalcoholic fatty liver disease or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis is still debated among liver specialists since no well-proven treatments are available. A liver biopsy can exclude other liver diseases as the cause of the abnormal tests or fat and provide information about the stage (and therefore the expected outcome) of Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. It also may provide an incentive for an individual to adopt a healthy lifestyle (diet and exercise) with the aim of losing weight.
Weight loss, if overweight, and correcting elevated cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood sugar should be beneficial in Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Steatohepatitis diseases treatment: Nonalcoholic fatty liver complication

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Overweight health problems

March 14, 2017

Overweight health problems causes obesity and all be addressed by change of life style

Overweight health problems: Importance of seeking for professional treatment

If there is any health condition that we must not allow to get close to us, it must be that of being obese or overweight. You may take this casually but wait until you understand the endless overweight health problems that are chronic and fetal that comes along with this condition. The health complications associated with overweight and being obese are a serious threat to life. If you’re obese, you’re more likely to develop a number of potentially serious health problems. According to doctor Dalal Akoury MD a weight loss professional and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center the following are some of the heath conditions associated with being overweight or obese:

Type 2 diabetes
Stroke
Skin conditions, including poor wound healing
Osteoarthritis
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition in which fat builds up in the liver and can cause inflammation or scarring
Metabolic syndrome a combination of high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high triglycerides and low HDL cholesterol
High triglycerides and low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol
High blood pressure
Heart disease
Gynecologic problems, such as infertility and irregular periods
Gallbladder disease
Erectile dysfunction and sexual health issues
Cancer, including cancer of the uterus, cervix, endometrium, ovaries, breast, colon, rectum, esophagus, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, kidney and prostate
Breathing disorders, including sleep apnea, a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts

Overweight health problems: Quality of life

The gift of life is precious and we have this life to live once. Anything that complicates the full enjoyment of life must be dealt with professionally and timely. When you’re obese, the quality of your life may be lowered significantly. Despite the opportunities around you, you may not be able to do things you’d normally enjoy with ease. Take for instance participating in enjoyable activities like playing around with your young kids. This problem may also cause you to shy away from certain public places. It can also go to the extreme where obese people suffer from discrimination due to their condition. Besides these there are other weight-related issues that may affect the quality of life including:

Social isolation
Shame and guilt
Sexual dysfunctions
Lower work achievement
Disability
Depression

Seeking for professional help

Finally, being overweight or obese is not a crime and there are solutions for it. The first thing you need to do is to be open up and talk to your health care provider in plain truth about your weight concerns. This is one of the best things you can do for your health. Therefore, if you’re concerned about your weight, start by seeing your primary care provider and be ready for any options you may be given. The doctor in some cases may refer you to an obesity specialist, a behavioral counselor, and dietitian or nutrition specialist. The good news is that these entire specialist and many more are available at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of Doctor Akoury. You can go ahead and make that very important phone call to schedule for an appointment with doctor Akoury today.

Overweight health problems: Importance of seeking for professional treatment

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Effective stress control during holidays

March 3, 2017

Effective stress control during holidays if not done professionally, can cause serious health problems

Effective stress control during holidays: Proper planning of holiday activities

As a means of handling holiday stress, proper planning must be done a head of time. The activities can ruin your time if not managed well. Therefore, for effective stress control during the holidays, the following are essential:

Shopping: This is one of the major holidays headaches which when not properly addresses may cause you unnecessary stress. Therefore as a means of handling holidays stress, doctor Dalal Akoury MD President and founder of AWAREmed health and wellness resource center advices that you need to plan ahead when to shopping for gifts.

Make a list of those people you’re buying for gifts
Ensure that the gifts are within your budget
Decide in good time what you want to buy for them
Get to know where to get all these gifts

You can save time and money this way by not just wandering aimlessly through the shopping mall. And don’t wait until the last minute. Shopping on Christmas Eve is more stress than it’s worth.

Effective stress control during holidays: Exercise and stress relievers

Plan your exercise and stress relievers. Exercise doesn’t have to be 30 minutes of cardio and 30 minutes of weights at the gym. For instance:

Ten minutes of exercise three times a day is just as beneficial
That might look like 10 minutes on the treadmill before work
Another 10 minutes of climbing stairs at lunch and
A final 10 minute walks with a friend in the evening

It can be walking through the neighborhood caroling with your family. It can be taking a stroll through the lights at the zoo. You could sign up for a 5km run or walk on almost any Saturday and even on Thanks giving Day. Don’t forget that increased housework is increased activity as well. If you have guests coming, do an extra vacuuming for some additional calorie burn. All these done will go a long way in helping in handling holidays’ stress and weight gain effectively without much straining.

Sleeping: Stress relief definitely comes from exercising, but also from relaxing and sleeping. Make sure your schedule you allocate for some time each week with no obligations. Use those nights to get to bed early so you are refreshed for the next day.

Food: Lastly, plan your food. During the holidays, there is abundance of high sugar, fat and calorie foods. Many are very tasty, but probably not all are your favorites. If there is a special treat or dish that you only get this time of year, have a small serving of it. But don’t waste your treat on high calorie foods that you don’t enjoy. And make the next meal or snack extra healthy that day; you may add in an extra 10 minutes to exercise to compensate for the added calories. Finally, the holidays have special meaning and shouldn’t be stressful. Plan to avoid stress and be successful with your weight loss goals. In case of any difficulties, do not hesitate to consult with doctor Dalal Akoury for her professional input. This will be very helpful for you and your family.

Effective stress control during holidays: Proper planning of holiday activities

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Toxic surrounding and obesity vice

February 2, 2017

Toxic surrounding and obesity vice can be fought effectively by healthy living

Toxic surrounding and obesity vice: Is the environmental toxic to blame

Truth be told, the world around us is not the way it was some four or five decades ago thanks to technology that has made industrialization to take root in all the states across the globe. One of the measures used to establish the economy of any given nation is how well she is able to add value to her natural resources like agricultural produce and mineral deposits. The process of adding value to this natural produce has been one of the sources of pollution of the environment in all dimensions. The air, water, and the land are all victims of pollution ingredients emanating from the various industries processing different products we consume today. Because of this, we are forced to live in the toxic surrounding which is not healthy for habitation. It is on this background that we want to engage the expert opinion from the professionals at AWAREmed health and wellness resource center under the able leadership f doctor Dalal Akoury MD in discussing the effects of our toxic surrounding and the vice of obesity as a health condition. And even as we get to the discussion, you are free to call on doctor Akoury anytime in case you are having any burning concern.

Are we surrounded by toxins?

First thing first, are we surrounded by toxins? In response to this, let me as a question “What is in that fat when you lose it? Interesting indeed, because we are rapidly being exposed to both internal and external toxins.

External toxins – are those elements derived from the environment and may enter the body when it’s being subjected to an overwhelming array of chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides that contaminate practically everything we come into contact with like the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat while Internal toxins arises from the gut as breakdown products of our own metabolism.

Under normal circumstances, in the past, our ancestors were able to stay healthy by detoxifying their bodies using the endogenous detoxification mechanisms something we find very difficult doing today. What we would call our endogenous detoxification mechanisms are so much overloaded that the excess toxins are stored in our fat depots.

When a person loses weight (fat) these stored toxins (e.g. bisphenol, DDT etc.) are released back into the body where further interfering with normal metabolism. It has even been suggested that the release of toxins during fat loss may be responsible for slowing down weight loss and even stopping it altogether in some cases. Looking at the increase of toxins we often released into our body systems when losing weight it is necessary that our mothers and ladies, in general, should embrace weight loss before they can plan to have children i.e. getting pregnant. This will prevent the possible damage to the unborn child’s brain.

Toxic surroundings and obesity vice: Effects of toxins

The presence of toxins in our may change our metabolism in many ways like:

Disrupt the function of hormones
Damage the mitochondria in our cells
Increase inflammation and oxidative stress
Lower the levels of the thyroid hormones we produce
Change our circadian rhythms and the autonomic nervous system

All of these changes can eventually hamper the most important weight control mechanisms in the human body. According to researchers, writing in the Italian Journal of Pediatrics, recent accumulating evidence indicates that obesity may present an adverse health consequence of exposure during the critical developmental window to environmental chemicals disrupting endocrine function. The critical developmental window is the period from conception through fetal development in the mother’s womb until the end of the first two years of life. Infants and young children are probably the most vulnerable group when it comes to exposure to harmful chemicals and endocrine disrupters.

Toxic surroundings and obesity vice: Is the environmental toxic to blame

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Environmental toxic nature and obesity

February 2, 2017

Environmental toxic nature and obesity can be very cruel to children

Environmental toxic nature and obesity: Chemicals contaminants

Knowing what being obese can do to one’s life is reason enough to be careful in all that we do that might trigger weight gain. The life we live needs to demonstrate that despite the environmental toxic nature we live in, our actions doesn’t contribute to the cause of obesity and being overweight. It is true that many experts have described the many potentially obesogenic actions of a variety of chemicals that contaminate our environment like the so-called organotins which interfere with normal fat metabolism and can be found in marine paints, wood catalysts and plasticizers, slime-preventing chemicals in industrial water systems and fungicides in foods. It is believed that the major environmental sources of organotins are contaminated seafood, agricultural products, drinking water and leaching from plastics. Having said that doctor Dalal Akoury MD and founder of AWAREmed health and wellness resource center reiterates that we have a duty of cleaning up our surrounding if we want to make any meaningful progress in this journey of controlling weight gain objectively.

Environmental toxic nature and obesity: What can be done to clear the contaminants?

At the moment there are no general solutions to this problem. Faced with ever increasing contamination of our water supplies, foods, and the atmosphere, many nations and the entire global population seem to be helpless to stop this attack on our fat-regulation systems. Until more research is done to pinpoint the most dangerous chemicals and ways are found to reduce their presence in our water, food, and air, the human race appears to be defenseless but to continue gaining weight under these circumstances. Take, for instance, if we had to remove the hundreds of chemicals found in the water supply, water would become so expensive that most of us could not afford it. Many years ago I attended a congress dedicated to water purification. As delegates, we were taken on a visit to a local water purification plant. The engineer in charge showed us the various processes that were then used to remove undesirable solid waste from the water and to disinfect it against the majority of pathogens. He then smilingly presented us with a glass of clear recycled water and asked who would like a drink! No one volunteered, so he downed the glass of water himself.

When I asked this same engineer what processes were available to remove chemicals and contaminants such as estrogens derivatives from the water before it was recycled, he said that although such processes existed, they were prohibitively expensive as they required the water to be passed through resin columns. Such processes (reverse osmosis filtration, Nanofiltration or granular activated carbon filtration), are probably even more expensive nowadays, so most people will continue to be exposed to organotins and other obesogenic compounds.

Let’s support actions to keep our precious water supply as clean as we can because once a nation’s water supply becomes toxic, the food supply also becomes contaminated and toxic. With acid drainage from the mines, millions of women using hormones and collapsing waste purification systems in many municipalities across nations we appear to be helpless to avoid the effects of obesogens in our environment. It is painful to know that in some nations and majority for that matter, things are coming to the point of helplessness. What then can you do on your part? If you know of any of your friends or family members struggling with obesity irrespective of how they became obese you can schedule an appointment with doctor Akoury and she will help you professionally in all your weight loss concerns.

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