Esatdounidenses researchers found that a diet rich in sugar have very similar effects in the liver caused by excessive alcohol consumption.
According to a study from Duke University in the United States in an excess of sugar in the diet can produce a non-alcoholic fatty liver, similar to that caused by excessive alcohol consumption.
Sugar encunetra not only in sweets but also contain carbohydrates, because their goal is to provide energy, if that is not consumed is stored as fat in our body.
According to this study, the transformation of sugar into fat is what is produced in the liver as a result of an excess of this nutrient in the blood.
Although it is known that excessive sugar is harmful to our body and causes increase in weight, there may be other consequences that go beyond, and it can damage internal organs like the liver.
This causes the liver to accumulate excess sugar as fat on the inside, causing a fatty liver, or what is popularly known as fatty liver usually caused by a massive intake of alcohol.
Among the main symptoms of this disease is encunetra pain in the upper right abdomen, chronic fatigue, general discomfort and heaviness after meals.
High levels of blood sugar can be reduced with exercise and a proper diet, low in sugars and carbohydrates. The fatty liver is a reversible condition that can be solved.
The third, October 24, 2008, reading news