It's time for Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionist Darlene Kivist.

Each week, Darlene explains a connection between what you eat and how you feel.

Stay tuned to hear practical, real-life solutions for healthier living through good nutrition.

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Well, welcome to Dishing Up Nutritionist. I'm Darlene Kivis, licensed nutritionist.

And today's show is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

I hope everyone that is listening will just turn up the volume on your radio just a bit today

because I think we have some very interesting and very life-changing information to

share to share with you today. You know, every week as I prepare for the show, which means usually

I get started on Monday night and then I start really ramping up on Tuesday night. Sometimes it rolls into Wednesday night.

And so it's like maybe 10, 12, 15 hours of preparation.

Often nutrition educators and other nutritionists send me articles and stories,

and I have all kinds of books covering my dining room table.

And I look at research and today's topic required an extra large amount of research material.

So my table was literally stacked high with reference materials.

So if you're listening, sharpen up your ears.

Have you ever heard of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease?

Or some people call it non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver.

And I bet you're listening and I bet you're saying to yourself, wait a minute, don't you have to be a chronic alcoholic to have a cirrhosis of the liver?

No, not really. In fact, I have an interesting story to share.

You know, when Orly, who is one of our nutrition educators, realized that we were talking about non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver.

She shared this story.

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