There are two causes of fatty liver disease: excess alcohol consumption and excess fructose consumption.
60 years ago, if you have fatty liver disease, doctors assumed it was because you were an alcoholic, and they were almost always right.
With the rise of sugar consumption (table sugar is 50% fructose, HFCS is 55% fructose) we've seen epidemic of people who don't drink alcohol developing fatty liver disease. Something that was so uncommon in the past that they had to give it a new name: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
Today, 80 million Americans have fatty liver disease, and it's not because they are all alcoholics. Worse, fatty liver disease is now commonly being diagnosed in children.
I used to be on the "HFCS is no worse than table sugar" side. 50% vs 55% doesn't seem that much. But, when we're talking 65%, that's a problem.
Fructose is processed in the liver similarly to the way alcohol is processed. Like alcohol, we can tolerate small amounts over time, but large amounts over time causes serious damage to our body.
This article is 10 years old. Nothing came from the discovery that fructose levels in processed foods were higher than stated.
But, over that same period of time, we've seen the rise of childhood fatty liver disease.
n 2007, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that children with obesity should be screened for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. A disease that didn't even exist in children a few decades ago, is now considered common enough that physicians should routinely screen for it.
What's the cause, and what's the solution?
HFCS is poison.
Avoid at all costs.
A true killer that makes covid look like a kindergarten math lesson.
Duh.
They actually think this is some kind of mystery to be solved. Obviously because they create fat people, seriously, ridiculously fat people and then try to tell you they are getting to the bottom of it. Funding.
If you drink water and not anything else, you probably won’t be morbidly obese. If you don’t eat crap you probably won’t be morbidly obese.
Cheesburgers, Steaks, wings, bacon, and good shit like tomatoes, avacodos, and other great stuff, didn’t make Americans super fatsos.
It’s soda and other shit with high fructose corn syrup. Drink coffee, tea, coconut water, or just water.
That high fructose corn syrup is in other garbage like doritos. That shit sucks.
Pepsi Real or nothing...
There are two causes of fatty liver disease: excess alcohol consumption and excess fructose consumption.
If you have these problems then avoid alcohol and fructose. If it tastes sweet then don’t ingest it.
I grew up in a seafood restaurant my father managed. I made tons of cole slaw and cocktail sauce. Never considered putting sugar in either. Now go to the store and try to buy them prepared with no sugar or HFCS in them. It’s not possible.
HFCS is like poison to me now and I had to throw out my Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce.
My H1C is happy 😎
What’s the cause, and what’s the solution?
The main change in the American diet is higher consumption of omega 6 fats.
Seed oils are the ingredients highest in omega 6 fats. People started using them in the 20th century. The percentage of fats in people’s bodies that is omega 6 fats keeps increasing.
People use less coconut oil and tallow to cook and more canada oil, soybean oil, and corn oil. That’s why people are fat.
Read research reports about the effects of omega 6 fats on liver disease.
People consume a lot of foods with added vitamin a. Foods have more vitamin a than we need.
Vitamin A is stored in the ilver and excess causes liver disease.
I drink a soda called Izze. No added anything. Just the fructose from the actual fruit.
-SB