Mediterranean Diet in Combating Hepatic Illness: A Review Based on Global Perspectives

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD*) is the presentation of metabolic syndromeof liver issuesor diseases. Apart from Alcoholic fatty liver syndrome NAFLD is expected to becomethe major causeof last-stage of hepatic illness globally. NAFLD is the primaryculprit of different liver issues starting from Steatosis (deposition fat in liver), steatohepatitis (NASH), and NASHCirrhosis and cirrhosis complications. The load of diseaseconnected to NAFLD isexceptionally high in the common population and the world-wide occurrence of liversteatosis is indeed around 25%. These figures are extremely vulnerable in the last few decades and also show a direct relationshipwith an increasein obesity and diabetes which establishes a strong correlation between them. Increased consumption of packaged and processed food has increased the prevalence ofvisceral fat which hasclinically been proven to increase the hepatic fat content as well as overall lipid in theblood serumof the subject.Mediterranean diet is the dietary practice done by 16 plus countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea having multiple aspects in managing health. It strongly supports restrictingprocessed food andanimal meat by growing tendencies ofusing of grains, lentils, seeds nut, fish, dairy, eggs, vegetables, and fruits. The Mediterranean diet has been clinically proven to producepositive healthoutcomes in terms of cardiovascular health, Hb1Ac, and waist circumference in bothgenders. The following critical review aims to understand the positive correlation between Mediterranean diet and Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the population of West Bengal irrespective of gender inthe middle-agegroup followed by improving quality of living in implementation of grain based – low protein diet.