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Sugary drinks and fatty liver—a bitter-sweet relationship

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology volume 12, page 430 (2015)Cite this article

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Unlike diet beverages (with no added sugar), regular consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) has been found to associate with the presence of NAFLD, according to research published in the Journal of Hepatology.

“Sweetened beverage intake is the largest contributor to added sugar intake in the USA, and epidemiological evidence suggests that high intakes of SSB are associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes,” says corresponding author Nicola McKeown. Previous studies from the group have identified a connection between SSB and an abnormal metabolic phenotype. “As a natural transition from this work, we were interested in examining the relationship between SSB consumption and fat accumulation in ectopic depots; for example, visceral adipose tissue and liver,” explains McKeown.

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  1. Ma, J. et al. Sugar-sweetened beverage, diet soda, and fatty liver disease in the Framingham Heart Study cohorts. J. Hep. 10.1016/j.jhep.2015.03.032

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  1. Gillian Patman
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Patman, G. Sugary drinks and fatty liver—a bitter-sweet relationship. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 12, 430 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2015.108

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