Can Intermittent Fasting Help With a Fatty Liver?
When I was first studying nutrition, I learned about juvenile and adult-onset diabetes. When teens started showing up with adult-onset diabetes, the nomenclature changed to Type 1 and Type II diabetes. When I was in school, we learned about fatty liver as a disorder that impacted heavy drinkers. With the increase in non-alcoholics with fatty liver, however, we have a new name: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
An estimated 24 percent of U.S. adults have this disorder. The conditions that put non-alcoholics at risk are obesity, high blood lipid levels and diabetes.
FOODS TO AVOID: Studies have suggested that excessive consumption of fructose contributes to non-alcoholic fatty liver disorder, particularly in people with a predisposition.
Excerpted from the Miami Herald
