Even your LIVER is fat

Wheat Belly Blog reader, Denise, posted this question: “My doctor has prescribed a low fat diet due to a barrage of tests that ended up showing I have a very fatty liver. I am overweight, have high blood pressure, IBS and acid reflux. In all the reading I have done on here, I keep seeing to add fats . . . healthy ones . . . to your daily eating. How do I eat these and also stick to a low fat diet to please my doctor? I am 59, female, and really need to try to get healthier.” Sorry, Denise, but it’s not your job to please your doctor. It’s your job to do what’s right for your health. Sadly, your doctor is doing more harm than good. A low-fat diet CAUSES fatty liver because cutting fat increases carbohydrate intake which, in turn, increases liver de novo lipogenesis, the conversion of carbohydrates to fats that are then deposited in the liver. In other words, feeding your liver more carbohydrates and less fat encourages the formation of triglycerides, some of which are released into the bloodstream as VLDL (very low-density lipoproteins), the rest of which remain in the liver. Triglycerides are fats, fats are triglycerides. As you eat more “healthy whole grains” and other foods that fit into a low-fat diet, your liver makes more triglycerides, your liver––along with your intestinal tract, pancreas, kidneys, and heart (pericardial fat)––accumulates fat, gets larger, increases markers of liver damage like AST and ALT. Over many years, this ca...
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