Energy balance
Clinical guidelines for NAFLD universally recommend lifestyle modification, specifically weight loss of 5-10% via caloric restriction and exercise, as the primary management strategy.
Focus on losing 5-10% of your body weight through a daily calorie deficit of 500-1000 calories and regular exercise. This is the standard recommendation across major health guidelines.
All seven guidelines reviewed included recommendations for weight loss, with only those from NICE not quantifying therapeutic weight loss [31]. Five of the seven propose a standard target weight loss 5%–10% [26,29,30,32,33]...
Why this rating
Based on consensus of multiple national/international guidelines, though specific RCT data for the guidelines themselves is not the primary focus of this review.
Source
Differences between current clinical guidelines for screening, diagnosis and management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and real-world practice: a targeted literature review
Jörn M. Schattenberg et al. · Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology · 2021
DOI 10.1080/17474124.2021.1974295
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