A new study shows that high sugar and high fat foods are the cause of abdominal obesity and hepatic steatosis or fatty liver. It showed that eating foods with high fat and sugar may cause one to put on belly fat.
As per Dr. Mireille Serlie of the Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam and her team, a high calorie diet with numerous meals a day could lead to an increase in intrahepatic triglyceride content and fat in the waist area. The researchers associated obesity with the accumulation of fat in the abdomen and liver. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or NAFLD is currently one of the most common liver diseases.
High-Fat, High-Sugar Snacks Linked to Belly Fat
Just when you finally started bringing a snack to work because you believe it is the healthy thing to do, new research might make you question yourself.
According to a study published in Hepatology, snacking on high-fat and high-sugar foods may cause you to gain belly fat. Dutch researchers fed a group of lean, healthy men a normal diet or a high-calorie diet. Those consuming the extra calories did so by eating fat and sugar or just sugar, either with meals or between meals. While the additional calories overall increased body mass index (BMI), noshing between meals significantly increased fat in the liver but eating larger meals didn’t. Belly fat also increased for those who snacked. Read More…
Snacking contributes to fatty liver, abdominal obesity
Researchers from The Netherlands found that snacking on high-fat and high-sugar foods was independently associated with abdominal fat and fatty liver (hepatic steatosis). According to the study published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, hypercaloric diet with frequent meals increases intrahepatic triglyceride content (IHTG) and fat around the waist, but increasing meal size did not. Read More…
Fatty Liver: Healthy Snack Ideas if You Have NAFLD
When I speak with people diagnosed with a fatty liver or a NAFLD, their main complain is that their diet is extremely restrictive and they don’t have anything to eat. And having in mind that my recommendation (and not only) is to eat at least 5 times per day, that could become a problem. However, the truth is that when it comes to a fatty liver disease, the diet is not as strict as in the case of many other diseases and we have a huge variety of foods that we can eat. Read More…
Pretty soon you will find out, just like I did, that the fatty liver diet does not limit your options too much and you can still eat an extremely varied diet after throwing away all the trash that you used to eat.