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 …
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 …
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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