In people with fatty liver disease, the liver makes way more of its own fat from scratch than it should, but the fat we eat or that’s in our blood doesn’t change — it’s the liver’s internal fat...

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Role of Dietary Fructose and Hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis in Fatty Liver Disease

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Human & Animal

2016 May

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Role of Dietary Fructose and Hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis in Fatty Liver Disease

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DOI: 10.1007/s10620-016-4054-0

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People with fatty liver disease make more of their own fat inside the liver than healthy people—about 23% of the fat in their liver comes from this internal process, compared to just 10% in people without the disease.

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