What is fatty liver and is it related to diet?
Fatty liver is a condition in which fat stored in the liver can cause inflammation that may lead to scarring and cirrhosis. For years, people assumed it was only caused by alcohol, but fatty liver is increasingly linked with excess body fat and metabolic abnormalities like insulin resistance. Studies show as many as 70 percent of people with diabetes may have fatty liver; signs of the condition can go undetected for years before complications may develop. Researchers are still trying to identify how our eating habits might reduce the risk or improve the symptoms of fatty liver, but some ideas are emerging. So far, the most important eating habits linked to reducing fatty liver focus on steps that reduce insulin resistance: avoid sugar-containing soft drinks, limit sweets and refined grains, get some moderate physical activity every day, and decrease total calories to gradually reduce excess body fat if overweight. Some studies suggest that limiting saturated fat and getting most of the
