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It was a day like any other in March this year. Fatty liver disease, in the absence of alcohol intake, is rapidly emerging as a health crisis in urban India. 70-90% people with obesity and diabetes suffer from fatty liver disease. "Fatty liver damage is no longer limited to people who drink excessively," says Dr Shiv Sarin, director of the …

While alcohol is known to damage the liver, less activity coupled with high intake of carb and fat food is silently driving an epidemic of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in India, said experts on the occasion of International NASH Day on Thursday. Fatty liver disease of two types: If there is fat, but no damage to the liver, the disease …

Mumbai When 16-year-old Sudha S, a Vile Parle resident, was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis recently, her parents were expectedly taken aback, as they associated fatty liver with excessive alcohol intake. Dr Harshad Joshi, gastroenterologist and inflammatory bowel disease specialist, Masina Hospital, recently treated a 22-year-old from Byculla, for non-alcoholic fatty liver While the Class XI student is presently undergoing treatment, …

A craving for sugar has always been attributed to a blood sugar imbalance in your body. In a recent study conducted by a team of researchers from IIT, Mandi, the insidious link between excess sugar intake and concomitant fatty liver disease, known as Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in medical parlance, has been unravelled. Let’s get down to brass tacks and …

IIT Mandi researchers decode how excess sugar intake causes fatty liver disease

A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi has unravelled the molecular mechanism by which excess sugar consumption causes fatty liver disease. According to the team, the research will prompt the public to reduce sugar intake to stop Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in its early stages. The consumption of excess sugar and carbohydrates causes the liver to …

Excessive Sugar Intake May Escalate the Risk of Liver Disease Among Children

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