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World Liver Day 2024: Know why excess oil and sugar in foods equally bad as alcohol for liver

Ahead of World Liver Day 2024, doctors said that eating a diet high in sugar and oil may be just as harmful to the liver as drinking alcohol, which is known to be terrible for liver health. While alcohol is known to be bad for liver health, consuming foods rich in sugar and oil may be equally dangerous for the …

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Did you know that type-2 diabetes can increase the risk of liver disease? If you have Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis, it can increase your chances of pre-diabetes or type-2 diabetes. The accumulation of fat in the liver or an increase in weight can definitely increase your blood sugar levels in the body. The study also found that …

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If alcohol consumption could impact the health of your liver, a sedentary lifestyle, a high calorie diet and excess fats associated with obesity and high blood sugar can be equally detrimental. It is extremely critical to educate the public on the fact that while excess alcohol causes damage to our liver, a sedentary lifestyle, overeating and a high calorie diet …

Excess Sugar Consumption Can Cause Fatty Liver; Here's All You Need to Know

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 …

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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

Restricting excessive consumption of added sugars may represent an early and important target by which non-alcoholic fatty-liver disease risk can be reduced among children, said researchers. “The prevalence of fatty-liver disease is escalating not only in adults, but also in children,” said researcher Johanna DiStefano, Professor at the al Genomics Research Institute. An earlier study, led by DiStefano, showed that …

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