Starchy diet 'may damage liver'.
Larry William
19 April 2008
"High-glycaemic" foods - fast digested by the body - may be causing "fatty liver", enlarging the hazard of significant sickness. Boston-based analysts, writing in the book Obesity, found mice fed starchy foods developed the illness. Those fed an analogous quantity of other foods did not. One
obesity expert related greasy liver in today's kids was "a crisis of the future". Baked beans greasy liver is precisely as it sounds - a build-up over time of fat deposits round the organ. At the point, no ill-effects are felt, but it's been linked with a higher hazard of most likely deadly liver failure later in life. Silent and threatening After 6 months on the diet, the mice weighed the same, but those on the high GI diet had twice the standard amount of fat in their bodies, blood and livers. Greasy liver is going to be one of the crises of the future unless we do something about it. Dr David Ludwig, who led the study, expounded the results would also apply to humans, and even youngsters, in whom greasy liver is becoming much more common. Between a quarter and twelve all overweight Yankee youngsters are thought to have the condition, he claimed. "This is a silent but threatening epidemic" he announced. "However, this study is fascinating, as there is other proof that folks who eat a diet plush in high-glycaemic food are much more likely to have more body fat.". |