How to Prevent and Cure a Fatty Liver

Remove Sugar from Your Dietto Prevent, and Heal, a Fatty Liver

   Numerous studies and recommendations from Harvard Medical School warn that eating too much sugar can be bad for your liver and your heart. You may have already heard that too much sugar is bad for your heart. If you eat too much sugar, you may become overweight and obese. These conditions make your heart work much harder than normal and lead to heart attacks, strokes and heart disease. But did you know that consuming a lot of sugar can seriously damage your liver? You'd better take this into consideration and do something about it.

  San Francisco's University of California says, "... one of the most common  

  types of sugar, fructose, can be toxic to the liver, just like alcohol."

Maybe you assume your liver is in great shape. Statistics  tell us otherwise.

   Numerous studies and research by health experts and medical professionals have shown that 17% of children and at least 30% of adults living in the United States currently suffer from fatty liver.

   It has long been known that one of the main causes of fatty liver is excess sugar. This includes, of course, high fructose corn syrup, which more and more people consider very unhealthy, and regular table sugar.

   If you use granulated, white, processed sugar in an attempt to avoid dangerous high fructose corn syrup, you should understand that the sugar in your cupboard or on your table right now is made up of roughly 50% fructose. In addition to contributing to neurological problems such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, obesity and diabetes, heart disease and cancer, excess sugar in the diet is bad for the liver.

    One of the reasons why too much sugar leads to so many serious health   problems is how much of an influence your liver has on your health.

    Your liver supports no less than 400 different body processes. This means that it is always working and must be in excellent health to properly support these body processes. If you regularly consume too much sugar, you are putting your liver at risk. This can lead to a dizzying number of mental and physical health problems that you might not immediately connect to liver health.

   If you were to cut out only one food from your diet to prevent or reverse fatty liver, it would certainly be sugar, and no health care professional would disagree. Since the liver plays a role in so many different health factors, and needs all of its vitality to perform those functions that no other organ can do for it, limiting your sugar intake will certainly provide many health benefits.

   Your overall health and well-being is greatly enhanced when you take care of your liver. Since sugar is one of the main causes of liver damage, it makes sense to watch how much you consume. In fact, let's take a look at how sugar contributes to liver damage.

 

How Sugar Damages Your Liver

  

   Sugar is broken down quickly and provides almost no nutrition to your body. Once transformed, it is stored as fat. This process goes back to your earliest ancestors. When food was scarce, your genealogical ancestors who lived in caves and threw rocks could gorge themselves whenever they were lucky enough to find food.

   Proteins take a long time to digest, and fats are the second slowest type of food to process. Complex carbohydrates do not cause as many digestive problems as simple carbohydrates. As a result, they don't cause fat to build up in your cells like a diet high in simple carbohydrates does. As you can see, sugar is an example of a simple carbohydrate. Simple carbohydrates are broken down quickly by your body, and quickly turn into fat that is stored in your cells.

   Excess calories and carbs were stored as fat in their bodies, to be used as an energy source later when food was limited. Regrettably, your body continues to function in the same manner.

   Simple carbs are broken down, and any that aren't needed for energy are stored as fat.

   This can result in a buildup of fat in your liver. When more than 5% of the cells in your liver are fat, the damage to your liver causes it to work improperly, and you have developed a condition known as fatty liver disease.

       That’s pretty scary. Only 6% of the cells in your liver have

       to be fat cells for health problems to start popping up 

       everywhere.

       In other words, your liver could be 94% healthy and still be 

       sick enough to cause you serious problems.

   It is important to know that fructose and other forms of sugar such as sucrose are present in most processed foods. It is thought that at least one type of sugar may be found in 65-75% of all the processed foods you find in your grocery store. This means that even if you don't go for table sugar and add it to your food and drinks, you are consuming sugar and already damaging your liver just by eating highly processed foods.

 

One Simple Way to Eat Less Sugar

   In addition to the fact that sugar contributes to fatty liver, so you should limit your intake. Fatty liver can lead to heart disease, brain health problems, obesity and many other health problems.

   An easy way to limit your sugar intake is to avoid any food with an ingredient ending in -ose. This is an indicator of sugar. In fact, all simple carbohydrates are nothing more than 6 simple sugars. The simple sugars to avoid are

1.        Glucose

2.        Fructose

3.        Galactose

4.        Sucrose

5.        Lactose

6.        Maltose

   Start eliminating foods that contain these 6 sugars from your diet. Stop adding sugar to your meals, and your liver will repay you by improving your overall health and well-being.

   If you suffer from skin problems, repairing your liver can produce visible results in a very short time. The same is true if you have hair problems or if you suffer from diabetes. A defective liver has been linked to obesity, high blood pressure and even high cholesterol.

   Since the liver has so many tasks to perform and is the largest organ in your body, it makes sense to keep it healthy. The easiest way to do this is to reduce your sugar intake. You already know that sugar causes a number of health problems when consumed in excess, and now you know why. In part, it's because it can quickly damage your liver, an organ that is vital to your health.