204. Is Junk Food Junking Up Our Livers? Fatty Liver 101 and a Case Study

Today, we examine the impact of ultra-processed foods on liver health. This shift in our diet has had an impact on our liver health, resulting in the important organ not functioning properly, for us and our kids. Dr. Elizabeth Boham presents a case-study of a patient she had who had developed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and what she did to help him. Many of us turn to cleanses to detox our livers, but what if we instead reduced our reliance on ultra-processed foods instead?

 

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FATTY LIVER DISEASE (NAFLD/MDASLD) AND ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS

• Fatty Liver Was a Disease of the Old. Then Kids Started Getting Sick, washingtonpost.com
• Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease, my.clevelandclinic.org
• Ultra-Processed Food Intake is Associated with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
• Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, my.clevelandclinic.org
• The Nova Food Classification System, ecuphysicians.ecu.edu
• Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods and Risk of Multimorbility of Cancer and Cardiometabolic Diseases, thelancet.com
• Some Ultra-Processded Foods Are Good for Your Health, WHO-Backed Study Finds, theguardian.com
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