Sugar damages your liver for 3 reasons, if you don't listen to the doctor today, you will regret it later

News Topical, Digital Desk : Does your day start with lots of sugar in tea or coffee or you cannot live without sweet snacks throughout the day? If your answer is 'yes', then wait a minute, because the sweets that you are eating without any worry are slowly hollowing out the most hardworking organ of your body, i.e. liver from inside (How Sugar Affects Liver).

Often we listen to the doctor's advice with one ear and let it out from the other, but when it comes to the liver, this carelessness can prove to be very costly for your future. Let's know from Harvard gastroenterologist Dr. Saurabh Sethi those 3 shocking reasons (3 Ways Sugar Damages Liver) due to which sugar is becoming the biggest enemy of your liver.

High Sugar Intake

The sugar you eat contains both glucose and fructose. While glucose can be used by every cell in the body, the entire burden of fructose falls on your liver. Think about it, a tablespoon of sugar contains about 50% fructose. When you eat too much sugar, the liver has to work overtime to process this extra fructose. This fructose is converted directly into fat in the liver.

The result? Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), i.e. accumulation of fat on the liver, which is becoming common even among non-drinkers. If not taken care of in time, it can cause serious damage to the liver.

Cause of inflammation

Did you know that eating too much sugar can increase inflammation in your body? Yes, when you constantly eat sugar, it creates a kind of stress in the body. This stress promotes inflammation in liver cells.

This swelling is similar to what happens when you get injured anywhere in your body, but this swelling continues inside the liver, causing damage to the liver cells. This long-term swelling weakens the liver and prevents it from performing its essential functions.

Excess sugar

Many of us consume sugar several times a day - morning tea, biscuits, cold drinks, sweets, packaged juices and what not! The liver has to process this sugar every time, due to which it never gets a chance to rest.

When the liver is constantly engaged in digesting sugar, it puts excessive pressure on it. It is just like you keep running a machine continuously and never turn it off. Eventually, that machine will break down. Similarly, constant consumption of sugar exhausts the liver, due to which its efficiency starts decreasing and it becomes a victim of diseases.

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