Excess weight and its dangerous consequences: research and recommendations
Obesity and related diseases
We have already written about how obesity disrupts the cardiovascular system, in the continuation of the material we will talk about gastrointestinal and liver problems that arise due to excess weight.
Abundant nutrition leads to overload of the gastrointestinal tract and its anatomical changes: an increase in the size of the small intestine, the absolute weight of which increases by 20-40%. All this causes first an increase in the digestibility of food, then, on the contrary, its decrease.
The liver is a vital organ that stands guard over our body. The peculiarity of the liver's work is that, by filtering the blood and cleansing it of various toxins, it forms bile. And bile accumulates in the gallbladder between meals.
Obesity disrupts the functioning of the liver and gallbladder, which leads to an increase in the concentration of cholesterol in bile and creates conditions for the formation of gallstones.
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