For overweight people with a fatty liver condition, following a very low-carb, low-calorie diet for 8 weeks can cut down the fat in their liver by about two-thirds.

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Reducing Liver Fat by Low Carbohydrate Caloric Restriction Targets Hepatic Glucose Production in Non-Diabetic Obese Adults with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

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2014 Sep

The study tested exactly what the claim said—a low-carb diet with very few calories—and found it cut liver fat by about two-thirds, just like the claim states.

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Reducing Liver Fat by Low Carbohydrate Caloric Restriction Targets Hepatic Glucose Production in Non-Diabetic Obese Adults with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

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DOI: 10.3390/jcm3031050

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