La prevención de enfermedades hepáticas empieza con nuestros hábitos, no en la consulta médica – Blog

Heptas diseases can be prevented long before going to the doctor: caring for the liver begins with our habits and the entrging where we live.

[Este post ha sido coescrito por Dana Ivancovsky-Wajcman, investigadora postdoctoral en ISGlobal, y Jeffrey V. Lazarus, responsable del Grupo de Salud Pública Hepática en ISGlobal.]

Liver health does not deteriorate from one day to another. It is wearing over the years, marked by what we eat, how we move, the esto we accumulate and the environment we habit. Even so, most prevention strategies remain focused on what happens within a medical consultation.

What if we have been looking for too long on the wrong place?

What if the key to stop hepophical cooling is in classrooms, kitchens and community spaces, and not in the sole health centers?

The reality is that affections such as metabolic liver steatosis (MASLD) often develop silences for many years before symptoms appear. That is why the prevention must begin soon, and involved more than health system.

Invisible beginnings of liver cooling

Beyond genetic factors, Lifestyle plays a crucial role In some people they develop metabolic liver steaosis. The western lifestyle – characterized by a high consumption of processed meats, refined cerales, sweets and alcohol, along with a low intake of vegetables, fruits, nut He knew, he knew exatals – exactum ex -atage – elaa ela esuupuso exactosimo. An important role in the derar of metabolic hepatic steososis. Life habits are formed from an early age and condition health in adulthood. For example, there are studies that have concentrated that when Mothers’s diets are unhealthy during the Emarazo, their children may have more likely to develop heavy problems as metabolic hepatic statosis later. Breastfeeding could help a protagonist against hepant problems such as metabolic hepatic steatosisWhile consuming large amounts of sugar and fat aumm the risk of developing them. Similarly, Physical inactivity and excess time in the face of screens during childhood increase the risk of severe metabolic hepatic statosis in adulthood.

Yes ok Changes in lifestyle and weight loss Son the main therapies for metabolic liver steatosis, the son difficult to achieve and maintain, Specialting for vulnerable populations. Therefore, established healthy lifestyle habits from an early stage is the most effective way to prevent metabolic liver lateatosis and support metabolic health in general.

Metabolic health is the body’s ability to maintain balanced levels of sugar in Sang, cholesterol, blood pressure and other factors. When this process works well, it helps an prevent that is confirmed without communicable such as diabetes, cardiovascular and metabolic hepatic steatosis.

The role of education and innors in early childhood

Prevention must start early, but when? Ideally, During the Emarazo or even before. It is important that future mothers are aware of their diet, and that the environment favors healthy decisions. This can achieve nutritional education in prenatal classes and subsidized and designed special methods for pregnant women.

These efforts must continue during The first 1,000 days. This meaning support for breastfeeding, free consultations in hospitals and primary athena, and educational courses for mothers and fathers who address the salary diet and relationship with food.

During early childhoodLegalized parents or guardians are the main models a guide to establish eating habits. Therefore, family meals must be encouraged, since they are associated with better eating habits and well -being in childhood and adolescence.

In addition, schools and families must work together to promote healthy behaviors. This includes avoiding meals with sugar excess, forbiding sugary drinks and limiting sweets in birthday celebrations. Instead, access to nutritious feeding and balance must be guaranteed, for example, medium healthy school dining rooms or community school gardens. Creating a healthy food environment in schools is an important specialization for vulnerable girls and boys, such as what facing food insecurity and lacks family support, already Food insecurity is also linked to metabolic hepatic statosis. It should also be encouraged that minors remain active inside and outside school hours.

Why what medical training is still insufficient

Imagine that you have to work in a bakery: the smell of newly made pastries, and how easy it would be to eat when leaving the oven. Without realizing, your carbohydrate consumption increases.

That is What happens with health decisions: a simple question of choice rarely son. Our environment, education, work and aging mold our habits. But even when someone wants to adopt healthy habits, the health system does not always read the necessary support.

Many health professionals want to help their patients improve their diet or physical activity, but the system makes it difficult. Most medical faculties do not yet teach adequate nutrition Neither lifestyle interventions, which leaves many doctors without tools or confidence to give useful custom advice. In addition, consultations are usually brief, sometimes it is perceived that the change in habits is not responsible for the doctor.

This combination of barriers carries a losing very opportunity.

A call to intersectoral prevention

In addition to education and consciousness, healthy making decisions should be the simplest option. Prevent hepálas diseases – and promoting health in general – requirement Collaborate between sectors. Educators, health professionals, community leaders and policy leaders They have an important role of playinginclusion in The international amit.

We must also expand our idea of ​​who educates on health. Teachers, sports atheriners, youth workers, mothers and fathers, and even local can be «health educators beyond health amit.» These daily figures are directly arranged in habits and attitudes, many times more than clinical environments.

That is why hepatic health, together conscious metabolic members, should be integrated into school curricula, community programs and family education—Not as an addition, but as a basis for well -being throughout life.

Conclusion

The prevention of hepartic cooling begins with us, taking Healthy decisions in our daily lives. From what we eat to keep active and avoid harmful habits, our elections stop our long -term health. But we are not alone In this way, Our environment and community also play a crucial role.

For example, corner more fruits and vegetables something natural is going when they are affordable and easy to get. Avoiding sugary drinks is easier when there are advertising restrictions, applied taxes and public water sources available. The same goes for physical activity: someone can intend to walk to work, but if the journey is not safe or not easy to travel, it will probably opt for public or private transport. Our environment conditions our habits.

Therefore, if we take distance, we realize that we all have a role that plays: Mothers and fathers guide us towards healthy habits, docents teach us about nutrition, friendships foster active lifestyles, urban planners design walkable spaces, the industries of nutritious food priors, and the polias polias potician sanitary and implementing policies the necessary changes.

By assuming the individual and collective responsibility of our health and supporting each other, we can build a healthier future for all.