Posted on 11/18/2021 4:36:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
The liquid causing the most damage to your liver may not actually be booze, according to a new study. It’s soda.
In the new paper (a collaboration between multiple Massachusetts universities), entitled “Sugar-Sweetened Beverage, Diet Soda, and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Over 6 Years: The Framingham Heart Study,” researchers looked at the average sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) or diet soda consumption of participants from the long-running Framingham Heart Study, which began in 1948. The new research examined 1,636 descendants of the original study, both offspring and third generation.
As the health site Eat This Not That! explains, researchers then weighed these soda self-reports against the incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition that affects one in four Americans. As the Mayo Clinic notes, “Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an umbrella term for a range of liver conditions affecting people who drink little to no alcohol. As the name implies, the main characteristic of NAFLD is too much fat stored in liver cells.” Fatigue and pain are common symptoms, but advanced scarring (cirrhosis) and liver failure are also possibilities.
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That settles it. Back to beer and bourbon for me. Science!
Help the liver de-toxify by eating alkaline veggies such as zucchini, okra, gourds, egg plant.
Whiskey - NEAT!
One word. Club soda. And coffee.
What if you dump alcohol into the diet soda?
Hogwash.
And Crazy Water: http://drinkcrazywater.com/
Did they consider insulin resistance or diabetes in their study? Doubt it, those people tend to drink diet soda more than average. They could pick up a bottle of water instead but the price of water is often as much or more than soda.
What are acid veggies?
You must follow the science!
Which was the one word?
Seems more likely being fat causes fatty liver disease.
I once worked with a guy who must have weighed 400 lbs. He coincidentally drank 8-10 16 Oz diet cokes every day.
I’m not paying for the article.
This is a racket!!!
“One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer....” George T.
All of them. The only thing I like about soda is the carbonation. And the caffeine. What I don’t like is that they’re all sweet. No one wants to make something that is carbonated, contains caffeine, and isn’t sweet.
I drink one on occasion so I am not going to worry about it. All things in moderation. I was out raking leaves in the cold today and came in find my wife had made me a cup of got tea with Kentucky whisky in it. That’s better than soda.
I was getting kidney stones every 18 months. I stopped drinking diet cola, and they stopped forming
Unlike club soda, seltzer has zero sodium. Just fizz. Tastes great.
Also I believe high incidence of pancreatic and colon cancers.
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