hyderabad not just alcohol gorging on your favourite mutton biryani may also damage your liver and leave you with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease nafld known to be one of the fastest growing lifestyle disease in developed countries citys gastroenterologists are reporting a very high incidence of nafld among 3035 of the patients they see every year thanks partly to their obsession with biryani coupled with cold drinksthose most likely to get diagnosed with nafld whose symptoms include abdominal pain chest pain tiredness are those who are already obese or leading sedentary lifestyles say experts on world liver dayabout 2030 patients especially techies working in multinational firms with nafld visit us for diet advice every day the common pattern we found was they gorge on calorierich biryanis and sweets forgetting the fact that those with sedentary lifestyle should restrict calorie intake to 17001800 only said sujatha stephen chief nutritionist maxcure hospitals madhapurwhile biryani is known to be a high calorierich diet with each serving having an average of 500 calories the ghee vanaspati and red meat used in their preparation lead to nafldso rampant is nafld among techies is that dr sreekanth appasani medical gastroenterologist continental hospital says 50 of his patients come with nafld complaintthis could be mainly because of the inability to keep count of the calories which when consumed in excess get converted into fat and deposited in liver and when fat deposition is more the liver cells start dying he saysbut in the face of difficulty in keeping tab on calorie intake due to lack of labelling on various types of highcalorie and fatrich foods that are sold in the market there seems to be only one easy way to protect oneself from nafld and that is through keeping a check on ones body mass index bmi it is scientifically proven that those with bmi of more than 235 are vulnerable to nafld however there is another type of the disease called leannafld or lean nash which can affect people with normal bmi said drbhavani raju senior consultant gastroentrologist care hospitals banjara hillshowever the sad part is that that even for those flush with funds there is no medically approved treatment for nafld as experts say that the right way to treat it is by tackling its pathological causes and lifestyle modification