If you’ve just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, drinking sugary sodas might make your liver less responsive to insulin—but if you’re active and move around more, that bad effect isn’t as strong.

If you have recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and you double how much sugary soda you drink, your body becomes about 2.6% less able to use insulin properly and you’re about 16–17% more likely to get fat in your liver—even if you’re not eating more calories overall.

Even if you eat a lot of fructose—like from fruit, soda, or sweets—your body’s ability to use insulin properly or the amount of fat in your liver doesn’t seem to change just because of that fructose, as long as you’re eating the same total calories and living a similar lifestyle.

Even if you drink fruit juice with lots of fructose, it doesn’t seem to make your body less sensitive to insulin or worsen fatty liver—once you account for how much you eat overall and how active you are.

If you’ve just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and you eat twice as much fruit as before, you might be 13% less likely to get a fatty liver—even if you’re eating the same total amount of calories.

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.