Does eating sugar cause fatty liver ?

January 30,Kathmandu. People all over the world know that eating too much sugar is harmful for health. It can cause tooth decay. Blood sugar can spike. It is very harmful for diabetic people, but do you know that sugar can also damage the liver? The answer is yes. Sugar damages the liver like alcohol.

According to a study published in the Journal of Hepatology, even a very small amount of sugar damages the liver. Just like every drop of alcohol damages the liver and causes fatty liver, sugar is also responsible for fatty liver. Sugar is the major cause in most cases of non-alcoholic fatty liver.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said in 2015 that no one should consume more than 25 grams of sugar or 6 teaspoons per day. We are not talking about only white granulated sugar here. All the packaged items being sold in the market contain added sugar. Even salty things contain sugar. All these things together are damaging the liver.

what happens when you eat sugar

Sugar is a type of carb. When we eat it, the body gets an easy source of energy. Our body converts it into glucose. It provides a lot of calories for energy, but its nutritional value is zero. The body uses a part of it for energy. The rest is kept safe.

Fatty liver problem occurs due to excessive sugar consumption

Our body works very intelligently. Just as we take out a part of our salary for expenditure and deposit the rest in a savings bank account for the future. In the same way, our body uses the required glucose for energy and converts the rest into fat and stores it in the liver.

However, our body is not as greedy as humans. It prefers to store only the fat it needs. When this fat becomes too much, it causes fatty liver.

The liver doesn’t like fat

If there is one thing that causes the most problems to the liver, it is extra fat. According to the National Institute of Health, if the amount of fat accumulated in our liver exceeds 5% of the total weight of the liver, then it can lead to many other risks. Excess fat can cause inflammation in the liver. It can also cause many diseases.

Eating too much sugar hinders 300 basic functions of the body

Just as our body starts swelling due to fat accumulation and the body becomes lethargic, similarly fatty liver means that fat has accumulated around it. Due to this, the liver starts becoming lethargic and its essential functions start getting hampered.

38% of the world's people suffer from fatty liver disease

Fatty liver is becoming a very common liver disease. According to the Journal of Hepatology, currently about 38% of the people in the world are suffering from the problem of fatty liver. 25% of these people are those who do not drink alcohol. In most of these cases, eating too much sugar is the main reason. Apart from white sugar grains, it is being consumed from junk food, packaged food and sugary drinks.

The burden of our bad habits on the liver

We eat packaged food throughout the day to satisfy our taste. We drink sugary drinks and eat sweets. We drink sweet tea and coffee. All this sugar goes to the liver, because the liver is responsible for breaking down and digesting sugar.

After this, what happens is that the body takes the glucose it needs and leaves the rest to the liver. It starts working again. This time it converts it into fat and stores it. This fat later becomes a burden for it. The liver must be very angry at our habits, but what can it do?