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Fast Food Diet Can Damage Liver, New Study Finds
A new study has revealed that eating too much fast food and doing very little
exercise can damage the liver.
The study was conducted on a group of slim and healthy people comprised of 12
men and 6 women, who took a “fast food challenge” for four weeks, and were
compared against a group of the same age and sex, who ate a normal diet.
The group on the fast food diet limited their levels of physical activity to
just 5000 steps daily and ate at least two fast food meals, from well-known
outlets, daily.
It was discovered at the end of the four weeks, that the people in the fast food
group had put on an average weight of 6.5 kg. five of them had their weight
increased by 15 kg and another had put on an extra 12 kg in just two weeks.
Elevated levels of the enzyme alanine aminotransferase (ALT) indicated liver
damage. It took just one week for a sharp increase in ALT to occur with the fast
food diet group, and it more than quadrupled over the entire period.
The results showed that in 11 people ALT rose to the level that could have
caused liver damage. The ALT increases were attributed to the weight gain and
especially to the higher sugar and carbohydrate intake common in fast food
meals.
Source: The journal Gut
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