LOVE YOUR LIVER
Fatty liver disease affects nearly one in three Americans. It happens when
fat accumulates in the liver and damages it. You probably think of it as an
alcohol-related disease, but fatty liver can also be caused by eating excess
sugar and refined flour. How does it happen? The liver gets overwhelmed
by the flood of extra sugar in your body and stores it as fatty deposits,
which in turn triggers a damaging inflammatory response. The tough part is
that there are no obvious symptoms of this liver damage, and it’s
dangerously related to heart disease and some forms of cancer. The way to
help combat it: Eat FIXES foods, like omega-3s, and cut out all those
added-sugar foods.Scary Truth. If you put a liver that’s been beaten up by too much fat and
sugar next to one from a heavy drinker, they look nearly identical in terms
of the damage to this important organ.How do you keep your leptin levels high and your ghrelin levels low? The
most direct way is to eat the FIXES foods that promote satiety—that is, fats with
benefits (F), ideal proteins (I), xtra fruits and veggies (X), and energizing carbs
(E). They all take a long time to move through the digestive system, encouraging
leptin levels to stay high, so that you feel satiated. But foods that go through