Drinking more sugary drinks might increase fat in your liver, especially if you're a middle-aged adult. People who drink the most of these beverages tend to have about 9% more liver fat than those who drink the least, even after accounting for other health and lifestyle differences.

How much fructose you eat doesn’t seem to affect liver fat in middle-aged adults — it might matter more where the fructose comes from, like fruit versus soda, rather than how much you eat.

Drinking sugary sodas and other drinks high in fructose may cause your liver to make more fat than when you eat glucose, leading to fatty liver and other health problems.

Drinking a lot of fruit juice might increase fat in your liver, even if you're not eating too many calories overall.

Drinking sugary drinks with high fructose corn syrup every day for just two weeks can start packing fat into your liver — and the more you drink, the worse it gets, even if you're young and not overweight.

Drinking sugary drinks with fructose (like in soda) can make fat levels in the blood go up more than drinks with regular sugar, even in women who aren’t overweight.