The holiday binge eating and drinking may seem a harmless affair as it is just one day of eating and drinking a lot, however, it is not what it looks like. The post-Christmas heartburn and bloating aren't just the only consequences of the feasting on Christmas. The binge eating and drinking on Christmas may take a heavy toll on your liver as well. The liver is one of the most important organs of your body. It is responsible for regulating your blood sugar, secreting hormones that are important for your survival and also process cholesterol. On Christmas eve you may overwhelm your liver and hamper its functionality, big time by eating and drinking irrationally. 10 Heart-Healthy Foods That You Must Include in Your Diet.

Excessive Drinking and its Effects on your Body on Christmas Eve

Till the time you drink a few sips of alcohol, your liver does its function of transforming your alcohol into regular water and carbon dioxide just fine! However, soon after you increase the amount of alcohol consumption, your liver gets overwhelmed and begins to get into a shock stage, and if you don't stop, the fatty acids made along the way that gets stored as triglycerides—a kind of cholesterol gets piled up over-burdening your liver. This may inflame your liver and damage liver cells leaving scar tissues. If sessions of binge drinking continue in a short span of time, your liver damage may also become irreversible The Holiday season sees more such damage due to frequent get-togethers.

How Binge Eating on Christmas Eve Affects Your Body

It is not just alcohol that is to be blamed a mix of unnecessary saturated fat, refined carbs, or processed red meat that usually people consume during Holiday season is enough to cause you health troubles. The holiday weight gain because of binging on this unhealthy combination of food may cause nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) which may further ruin your liver health.

Your health during the Holidays needs to be really taken care of as according to research chances of having a heart attack on Christmas eve is the utmost. The research says that feelings of anger, anxiety, sadness, grief and stress have been found to increase the risk of heart attack by 15 per cent during the Christmas eve in compared to the weeks before the holidays

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