If you are looking for my writings on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (and a little on alcoholic fatty liver disease), you should start with this article: Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Silent Epidemic of Nutritional Imbalance I also recommend you start with the above article as background if you are looking for my information on …
Fatty Liver
Let Us Honor Ancel Keys, Our Patron, As We Cherry Pick Studies to Bash Fructose (Revised and Extended)
My apologies to anyone who received this in their RSS feed on Thursday as a teaser. I have now revised and extended it to include several studies showing that diet-induced obesity can be achieved in rats and mice without using any sugar at all, and have included a clearer conclusion. Ancel Keys is best known …
New Fatty Liver Study Shows that Carbohydrate Restriction Causes Statistical Anomalies
A new study claims to show that carbohydrate restriction is superior to calorie restriction at improving fatty liver disease: Browning JD, Baker JA, Rogers T, Davis J, Satapati S, Burgess SC. Short-term weight loss and hepatic triglyceride reduction: evidence of a metabolic advantage with dietary carbohydrate restriction. Am J Clin Nutr. 2011 In this study …
My New Wise Traditions Article on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
I have a new article on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease appearing in the outgoing issue of Wise Traditions, and the online version just went up on the web site: Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease — A Silent Epidemic of Nutritional Imbalance The article contains a lot of information that I’ve already posted on this blog, but …
Why Is My Cholesterol So High On This Diet? You May Be Curing Yourself of Fatty Liver
by Chris Masterjohn New blog over at WestonAPrice.Org about how a nourishing diet may sometimes increase blood lipids by curing somone of fatty liver disease: Why Is My Cholesterol So High On This Diet? Read more about Chris Masterjohn, PhD, here.
Meeting the Choline Requirement — Eggs, Organs, and the Wheat Paradox
In several recent posts, I argued that most of us aren’t getting enough choline, and that the disappearance of choline-rich foods like liver and egg yolks from the modern diet is likely responsible for the silent epidemic of fatty liver disease that may be afflicting 70-100 million Americans. If you missed them, you can find them …
Does Choline Deficiency Contribute to Fatty Liver in Humans
by Chris Masterjohn I hope all of those who celebrated had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Giving thanks is at least as healing as a healthy diet! For those of you who celebrated it just to eat a lot or for entirely other reasons, I hope you also had a wonderful holiday, and for those of you who did …
The Sweet Truth About Liver and Egg Yolks — Choline Matters More to Fatty Liver Than Sugar, Alcohol, or Fat
In a recent post, I pointed out that perhaps as many as 100 million Americans have some degree of fatty liver disease. Why? Alcohol has been blamed since the 1800s, but we currently have an epidemic of nonalcoholic fatty liver. Some researchers, such as Dr. Robert Lustig, are making the case against fructose. Naturally, the nutritional establishment …
They Did the Same Thing to the Lab Rats That They Did to Us
Once upon a time, sucrose was the main ingredient in the diet of lab rats, but now starch is used. The government thought it knew what type of nutrition rats needed, so it recommended purified diets for the sake of science. Then, the rats started getting diseases, so they started tweaking the purified diets. Sound …
Does Your Liver Look Like an Eskimo’s Dinner? Fatty Liver is a Silent Epidemic
Does your liver look like this? All those white bubbles are fat droplets. I’m busier than a bumblebee right now, so unfortunately the high-fructose corn syrup post is going to have to wait till Tuesday. Today I’ll make a quick post about fatty liver disease. Someone on the Facebook version of this blog posed the …