Liver Pain

Liver problem can be a chronic health problem even life threatening for some of them. It can be a huge obstacle to your normal living as well as create some limit to your activities. Having the necessary knowledge of the various causes of such problem can help you in its early detection.

•    Liver cancer is another cause when people can experience the liver pain. Sometimes it just can’t get detected until it reaches the last stages. Some indicators of liver cancer are: lack of energy, weight loss, tiredness, loss of appetite etc.

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Liver Enlargement

When inflammation appears in the liver the situation is called liver enlargement. It’s also known as hepatomegaly.  It can occur because of excessive alcohol consumption, blood disorders, hepatitis, liver cancer, jaundice etc. Though for serious cases professional guidance is necessary, but at the same time you will get various options through easy home tricks.

•    To get relief from liver enlargement you can also consume bitter ground juice (1/2 cup) with a pinch of salt.

•    Papaya is an excellent remedy for liver ailment, so daily consumption can give you some useful results.

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The results of an Australian study shoes that zinc may prove effective to decrease birth defect risk, which is associated with alcohol consumption, during pregnancy.

The study has been carried on mice and it will be published in print issue of the Journal Clinical & Experimental Research on Alcoholism in April.

Peter Coyle, the co-author of the study, says: “it is amount and the period of alcohol consumption on which damage to the fetus depends. Similarly, the exposure time related to the development of tissues and cells also plays an important role in this connection.”

“The results of some previous studies have shown that exposure to alcohol or some other toxins during pregnancy can cause zinc deficiency in the fetus, as they induced zinc-binding protein in the liver of the pregnant woman.”

In their study, the researchers gave saline or an alcohol solution to the pregnant mice on their eight day of gestation (equivalent to 3-8 weeks on a human pregnancy). The researchers gave these mice either zinc supplemented or a regular diet during from the beginning to 18th day of gestation. Then the researchers assessed some of the fetuses to find out any birth defect and monitored the growth of the offspring for 60 days after birth.

The researchers concluded that fetal defects because of alcohol exposure could be prevented by the use of dietary zinc supplementation. However, the researchers say that their finding doesn’t mean that alcohol consumption becomes safe during pregnancy only by taking sufficient amount of zinc.

According to John Hopkins researchers, regular aerobic exercise and weightlifting may reduce high liver fat levels in patients with type2 diabetes.

High levels of fat are quite common in patients with type2 diabetes and they often seem to contribute in heart disease risk.

77 diabetic men and women took part in the study and they were divided into two groups. One group was asked to do three 45-minute sessions of moderate aerobic exercises including brisk walking and bicycling for six months. They were also asked to do three 20-minute sessions of weightlifting per week.

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