According to nutrition consultant Alexei Kabanov, sugar can harm the liver more than alcohol.
—The most massive liver disease in our country is non-alcoholic fatty disease. At the same time, the most harmful combination of products for the liver: animal fats and sugar, the specialist explained to Lente.ru.
Especially a lot of sugar enters the body with sweet soda. In this popular drink (especially children love soda), the amount of sugar can reach up to 25 grams per 100 milliliters. Half a glass of the drink, if you calculate, contains the daily amount of sugar for an adult.
A doctor gives this example: if a person eats fatty pork, washing it down with soda, then the liver gets a real blow. If the same person drinks alcohol at the same time, then the blow will be double. The result can be fatal – cirrhosis and liver cancer
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common chronic liver diseases in the world.
Signs of the first stage of the disease may either be absent or manifest weakly. The patient feels weakness, fatigue, his appetite disappears. There may be a feeling of heaviness and discomfort in the liver area.
Symptoms:
- Dull or aching pain in the upper right abdomen
- Persistent fatigue
- Unexplained weight loss
- Weakness
Can fatty liver disease be completely cured?< br>
There is no cure for fatty liver disease itself. The goal of treatment is to remove or reduce risk factors.
Risk factors that increase the risk of developing NAFLD:
- high cholesterol;
- insulin resistance;
- microalbumin in the urine;
- increased levels of urates in the blood;
- impaired carbohydrate metabolism.
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