Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is now the most frequent chronic liver disease,

thanks in part to our epidemic of obesity, now even seen in children, as many is nearly 78% of obese children

may have fatty liver disease.

Why do we care?

Because a fatty liver can progress into fatty hepatitis, which can cause scarring and

liver cirrhosis, which is bad enough without also causing you to develop liver cancer too.

Okay, so what's the source of the liver fat in fatty liver disease?

There are three main sources, the excess sugar in our diet, excess fat in our diet,

and the fat spilling over from your own excess body fat.

How do we know excess dietary sugar is bad?

Because it's been put to the test.

Because if you randomized teens with fat liver disease to a diet low and free sugars,

meaning added sugar and sugary beverages, they experience a significant improvement within eight weeks.

Given this new data, a liver journal editorial read, a strong argument can be made that we

are beyond any period of uncertainty about the harmful effects of excess sugar consumption

and they must now act to inform the public on the health risks of eating too much sugar.

How do we know excess dietary?

Fat is bad?

Because it's been put to the test.

Randomized people to the same low-calorie diet, but one that's low-fat versus one that's

high-fat.

And within just two weeks, the low-fat diet decreased liver-fat by 20 percent,

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