Eating too much sugar, especially fructose found in sodas and sweet snacks, tricks your liver into making excess fat, which can lead to a fatty liver, make your body less responsive to insulin, and raise your risk of heart disease.
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Dietary fructose feeds hepatic lipogenesis via microbiota-derived acetate
When people eat too much fructose (like in soda), their gut bacteria make a chemical that the liver uses to create fat, and the liver itself also gets a signal to make more fat — leading to fatty liver and related health problems like insulin resistance and heart disease.
Role of Dietary Fructose and Hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis in Fatty Liver Disease
Eating too much fructose (like in sugary drinks) makes your liver produce more fat than it should, which can lead to fatty liver, insulin resistance, and eventually heart disease — and this study shows exactly how that happens.
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