If you love to drink hand-shaken drinks, you will develop fatty liver! Famous weight loss doctor: Don’t touch these three landmines, there is a magic formula to replace fructose

In the hot summer, it is common to see people holding a cup of icy-cold bubble milk tea and drinking it guzzling it, thinking that it can immediately cool down and quench their thirst. In fact, in the eyes of famous weight loss doctors, they can't help but tremble with fear and remind you that if you rely on hand-shaken drinks every day to fight the heat throughout the summer, in addition to a sharp increase in weight, you may also accumulate too much body fat. Body fat can be divided into subcutaneous fat and visceral fat. It is worth noting that if visceral fat is not eliminated, it may lead to fatty liver in the future!

Body fat is divided into: subcutaneous fat, visceral fat

Whether it is subcutaneous fat or visceral fat, it is where the human body stores energy. Subcutaneous fat affects the appearance of the body, such as the appearance of apple muscles and a bulge in the belly. Women are more likely to have subcutaneous fat than men due to hormones. As for visceral fat, it is mainly distributed around the internal organs and its function is to protect the organs. However, once there is too much visceral fat, it will harm your health, especially causing risk factors including fatty liver, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease! Men are more likely to have visceral fat than women due to hormones. However, after menopause, women also begin to accumulate visceral fat more easily due to a drop in estrogen, making them a high-risk group.

Visceral fat is also commonly distributed around the abdomen, usually at the bottom layer of the peritoneum. In order to protect the safety of the internal organs, they have more fat layers than other organs anatomically. However, due to the force of gravity, some free fat will remain in the abdomen. Therefore, to get rid of your belly and have a flat abdomen, you must get rid of both visceral fat and subcutaneous fat. What is easily overlooked is that visceral fat comes quickly but is not easy to break down, and is often caused by eating!

Is visceral fat caused by eating? There are three main causes of increased visceral fat

Which foods are the culprits that cause the increase of visceral fat? Liu Bowen, executive director of the Taiwan Obesity Education and Prevention Association and a weight loss specialist, said that the three main killers include: refined carbohydrates, sugary shaken drinks, and alcohol. Oriental people mainly eat rice, so from the dietary flow record table, it is found that the average daily intake of starch (sugar) by Chinese people exceeds the normal 60% upper limit of the three major nutrients, and the source of starch is mostly beverages and snacks containing fructose.

Too much fat can cause pathological conditions such as fatty liver. The most common one is "fat surrounding the liver". Over time, there will be concerns about fatty liver.

There are three main killers that cause visceral fat to increase: refined carbohydrates, sugary shaken drinks, and alcohol.

Sugary shaken drinks often contain corn fructose. Drinking too much of it can burden the liver and worsen the formation of fatty liver.

Many of the hand-shaken drinks on the market contain corn fructose. Due to cost considerations, most of this raw material is processed from genetically modified corn into fructose, replacing the more expensive natural sucrose. Corn fructose is often found in sugary shaken drinks. Since it can only be metabolized in the liver, excessive intake of fructose will place a heavy burden on the liver, thus aggravating the formation of fatty liver.

A research report in the American Medical Journal (JAMA) also showed that after mice were fed corn fructose, MRI tests found that the blood flow in the satiety center of the hypothalamus did not change significantly compared to when they were fed glucose, which means that their satiety threshold increased and they were not likely to have a satiety warning effect. From a biochemical perspective, too much fructose will accumulate in the liver, producing triglycerides, which in turn leads to what is clinically known as fatty liver.

In addition, the fructose contained in hand-shaken drinks can only be metabolized in the liver. Therefore, excessive intake of fructose will cause a heavy burden on the liver, thus aggravating the formation of fatty liver. In addition, men have a higher drinking rate than women, and the age group most likely to develop visceral fat is generally between 50 and 65 years old.

In short, too much refined starch and sugary drinks, as well as too much alcohol, can easily convert the excess refined starch into triglycerides through the Klebsiella cycle, which are stored in the liver, forming fatty liver, and even in the abdomen, forming tuna belly, beer belly, etc.

Body fat can be divided into subcutaneous fat and visceral fat. Both subcutaneous fat and visceral fat are where the human body stores energy.

Should I be worried if I have fatty liver? The next step of fatty liver is related to liver cancer!

Should having fatty liver be a cause for concern? Dr. Liu Boen said that generally a moderate amount of fat is helpful to the body's metabolism, but too much fat can cause pathological conditions such as fatty liver. The most common one is "fat surrounding the liver", which can cause concerns about fatty liver over time. Once fatty liver exists, it is easy to develop insulin-resistant type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic three-high syndrome, hypoxia syndrome, and even more shocking is that the next step of fatty liver is not far from liver cancer!

Can erythritol help keep away fatty liver? Doctor: Almost no calories, can be used as a sugar substitute

There is a popular saying: "Erythritol helps keep away fatty liver." Is it true? Dr. Liu Boen said that erythritol, also known as erythritol, exists in many fruits (such as grapes, pears, citrus fruits, etc.); in addition, fermented foods (such as soy sauce, miso, sake, etc.) also produce natural erythritol, which is a plant-based sweetener (sugar substitute) and is now mostly used as a low-calorie sweetener and flavor enhancer in food additives.

The sweetness of erythritol is 70% of that of sucrose, and the calorie production is extremely low, about 0.4 kcal/g (about 10% of sucrose). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the European Union, and Japan even allow it to be labeled as 0 kcal/g. It can be said that it has almost no calories. For those who love sweet food but are afraid of getting fat, or for diabetic patients, it can be used as a sugar substitute.

Tips for preventing fatty liver: weight control + sugar-reducing diet + aerobic exercise

Preventing fatty liver is urgent! Dr. Liu Boen said that in clinical statistics, fatty liver has a positive correlation with many chronic diseases. To get rid of the formation of fatty liver, weight control is the only principle. For many patients with high blood lipids, the only fundamental solution is to pay attention to lipid-lowering treatment. In fact, the reduction of physical fat, that is, the reduction of weight, is the fundamental solution.

In addition, please be aware of your diet as too much sugar will also be converted into triglycerides. Therefore, in addition to reducing the intake of fat ingredients, you should also reduce the intake of foods with high fructose content, such as biscuits, sugary drinks, bread, etc. We should also have regular aerobic exercise in our daily life. As long as we persist, I believe that fatty liver will improve soon and we can stay away from the troubles of metabolic syndrome.