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The Best Diet for Fatty Liver Disease

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Michael Greger M.D. FACLM · April 14, 2021 · Volume 53
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What are the three sources of the liver fat in fatty liver disease and how do you get rid
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3 percent (3:57)... We who are "vegetarians" in the U.S. (WFPB
vegans) represent only 3% of the population. Ninety-seven
percent are therefore other than WFPB vegan. Can you
imagine how the landscape of the health care system would
change if we reversed those numbers?
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WS,
Much too optimistic. We should be happy for the
enlightened 3%. Not everyone can be or wants to
be WFPB. I went to Lowe's today to check out the
battery powered, EGO riding lawnmower. There
were cooking grills all over the place.
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raita. My close Indian friend, who studied public health at the
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don't judge indian food by restaurant standards
which is mostly punjabi food full of paneer and
naan which is not whole wheat. Try to go to udipi
restaurants (south indian) which has lot of vegan
and healthy and also authentic South Indian food.
I don't think even punjabi ppl eat paneer on a daily
basis. Or naan. Or even butter chicken (meat is
expensive in India and even middle class can
afford it once a week or once a month. Eating meat
in India/developing nations is alway a "special"
occasion thing as it is quite expensive)
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⏲ 2 years ago
I certainly agree. Although I do applaud humans for
giving up meat, dairy products are loaded with
saturated fat. Cheese is known
to contain about 70% fat. I am vegan, but
vegetarians tend to load up on cheese as a source Support
of protein. Cheese is loaded with salt
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and is incredibly addictive and easy to eat. I am
one of those people who believes that eating dairy
products are worse than eating meat.
Some humans rave that raw dairy has more omega
3's and is lower in saturated fats. I do think it is
healthier, but how much?. To me,
humans eating dairy products is unnatural and
unnecessary for multiple reasons including
hormones.
Unfortunately many studies compare omnivores
with vegetarians and sometimes the conclusions
show that the omnivore diet is not
much worse than the vegetarian one. Some have
shown that omnivores and vegetarians have the
same mortality rates. Peace.
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> rachel − ⚑
⏲ a year ago
Hi Rachel, I like your point. I don't really
understand how all these studies that
compare meat eaters to vegetarians
have the vegetarians coming out ahead
when they eat cheese, cream, milk,
eggs, etc. If cheese contains 70% fat,
how can lean meat (with the fat cooked
away and discarded) in small amounts
be worse than that? Do you know of any
good studies comparing eating dairy
products to small amounts of lean
meat?
Achyut Vemuri > plant_this_thought − ⚑

⏲ a year ago
This is true to a certain extent. South Indian food
(where I’m from) is actually mostly vegan. Butter is
not used much and ghee is optional and is used
only if you want to “kick it up a notch”. Very few
recipes call for milk. The only dairy products used
regularly are yogurt (mixed with rice) and milk
(taken everyday with coffee/ chai). Paneer is not
used in traditional South Indian cooking.
Not saying South Indian is inherently healthy but

Not saying South Indian is inherently healthy, but
there’s tonnes of vegan options there. They can get
pretty unhealthy though if you use white rice & oil.
Courtnay − ⚑
⏲ 2 years ago
Interesting, I wondered why the low carbers would say eat fat
and avoid sugar to reduce insulin.
Jonathon Lawrance > Courtnay − ⚑

⏲ 2 years ago
Because fat does not spike insulin. Any carb
(including the good ones) gets converted to sugar,
spiking blood glucose and insulin levels, meaning
you need to constantly refuel. Insulin is what
makes you fat, that's the traditional role of insulin
(to control fat storage) before we introduced
sugars.
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> Jonathon − ⚑
⏲ 2 years ago
In the short term perhaps. Long term
though, fat (or at least saturated fat)
impairs insulin sensitivity.
'Epidemiological evidence and

intervention studies clearly show that in
humans saturated fat significantly
worsen insulin-resistance, '
https://www.clinicalnutriti...
As for carbs, fibre is a carb and appears

to improve insulin resistance
'More recently, studies in humans and

animal models focused on gaining
mechanistic insights into why especially
high-cereal-fiber (HCF) diets appear to
improve insulin resistance (IR) and
diabetes risk. Although effects of HCF
diets on weight loss are only moderate
and comparable to other types of
dietary fibers, possible novel

mechanisms have emerged, which
include the prevention of the absorption
of dietary protein and modulation of the
amino acid metabolic signature. Here
we provide an update of our previous
review from 2008, with a focus on
mechanistic insights of how HCF diets
may improve IR and the risk of
developing T2D.'
https://academic.oup.com/jn...
Jonathon
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> Tom Goff

⏲ 2 years ago
Yep so many factors. And
then surprisingly none of that
is taking intermittent fasting
into the equation. Such an
interesting topic and hope we
finally get a study that gives a
clearer picture of sugars,
carbs, fats and fasting &
micro nutriets & fibre so we
know what to correctly do.
Lisa Lehman − ⚑
⏲ 2 years ago
I like Dr. Gregor, he's animated and interesting to listen to, but
I'm sorry he sound Fing drunk in this video. Wtf
JustVisiting > Lisa Lehman − ⚑

⏲ 2 years ago
I wondered....
painterguy > Lisa Lehman − ⚑

⏲ 2 years ago
LL,
Dr. Greger's animation helps me to understand the
content. Some of his videos can be quite long.
Leo Garcia − ⚑
⏲ 2 years ago
another amazingly informative video
Jonathon Lawrance − ⚑
⏲ 2 years ago
I believe the two best diets are vegan or keto. The two cannot
be done together. The carbs get converted to sugar which
means the body can't process the fat. There needs to be a
study that separates this and clearly compares it (and
completely removes refined carbs from the equation). I was
disappointed when I went through the sources used in this
video. One was only based on two weeks on women and the
other based on minutes in rats. Having converted from 90%
vegetarian diet to keto (mostly seafood keto) I can tell you it
takes about 5 weeks for the body to stabilise and there was a
lot of supplementation required such as
sodium/potassium/vitaminBs. Testing anything at that short
time will obviously show high-fat diets having increased
insulin because the carbs are essentially a drug the body is
coming off and the body is trying to convert to processing the
fats rather than the sugars. Being keto has actually increased
my vegetable/nut consumption but I've removed wholegrains,
high GI veg like pumpkin, most fruit and 90% of legumes. I
would love Dr Greger to look at a diet that could be keto and
takes in everything he knows and see the results.
Tom Goff > Jonathon Lawrance − ⚑

Why do you believe this?
Most 'vegan' diets are unhealthy and the keto diet

is just a low carb diet with a cool new name Low
carb diets are definitely not associated with healthy
longevity.
https://www.sciencedaily.co...
Jonathon Lawrance
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> Tom Goff
⏲ 2 years ago
Yeah agreed I actually don't use the
word keto for my diet because of the
connotations. And yep vegan food is a
joke and unrealistic to live on. I take
parts from everyone I've learned from.
So I smash the veggies such as
cauliflower, avo, salads, brocolli, kale,
cabbage, carrot, seeds, nuts and just
low amounts of potato. Then I buy the
best quality meats I can and no red
meat. So call it what you will but based
on all the research and evidence I've
found I think that works best and it
shows in my health. So I trust Greger for
the veggies part, but not the grains and
carbs part, where I employ keto
scientific data. That study you shared
likely has a lot of poor diets like low carb
could mean a lot of different things..
really you need the veggies and
nutrients or yeah you'll die early. If you
look at the longest life expectancy its a
greek island (I foget the name but Vice
did a story on it) and mostly what they
eat is veggies, cheese, olive oils, herbs
and seafood. And most of all they drink
and relax and laugh all day.
Tom Goff − ⚑
⏲ 2 years ago
Five cups of cacao a day may possibly help too
https://www.sciencedaily.co...
https://www.sciencedirect.c...
Matthew Smith − ⚑
⏲ 2 years ago
If our native diet was to eat fruit in the tropics, we probably ate
a lot of bananas, and bananas have a lot of biotin, so biotin is
probably very important for our emotional well being. So
bananas, beans, and nuts should be good for emotional
health as someone on this site said to me, you must use the
whole food.
Matthew Smith − ⚑
⏲ 2 years ago
I think that foods rich in iron, molybdenum, and zinc (beans,
seeds, spinach, and broccoli) are good for preventing and
treating cancer. These are nutrients that might vegans might
get low in if they do not follow the daily dozen vigorously, and
you must eat the whole food.
Smarty > Matthew Smith − ⚑

⏲ 2 years ago
You are as crazy about Molybdenum as some
people are about the Sphingolipids in dairy that
also prevent cancer, but who knows for sure?
Jeff Howard − ⚑
⏲ 2 years ago
Ugh again with the CVD reversal claims. Going on to say
Ornish showed "opening up the arteries". Really? 3% stenosis
pseudo-regression after 5 years = "opening up the arteries"?
WFPB is so great for CVD, there's no reason to add false
claims of disease regression to what is already an amazing
picture of CVD benefit.
Tom Goff > Jeff Howard − ⚑

This sounds like the nonsense promoted by
Bellardo and Avi.
The percentage regression was actually 5.5% (in

just one year!) ie down from 40 to 37.8. When only
lesions greater than 50% stenosed were analysed,
the regression was 8.7% - again in just one year.
Why people try to argue that it was only 3% and
that the figures do not represent actual stenosis
regression defies all logic and reason. These are
simply stunning results (even compared to drug
treatment or indeed anything else)..
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https://www.thelancet.com/j...
After 5 yearis, there was even greater stenosis

regression. And let's not ignore (as Bellardo and Avi
do) the accompanying reduction in adverse cardiac
events (people in the control group compared to
the experimental Ornish group had about two and
half times the risk of an adverse cardiac event).
https://jamanetwork.com/jou...
Of course if you are a low carber like Bellardo (and

perhaps make a nice living from inserting stents)
you'd do your darnedest to try to argue that Ornish's
and Esselstyn's results either didn't happen or were
meaningless. As, to be fair, does every other
desperate low carber out there . It just seems
terribly sad to me. ....... arguing that significant
stenosis regression and a significant reduction in
adverse cardiac events don't indicate a regression
of cardiovascular disease.
Perhaps, though, that is how they try to handle the

cognitive dissonance they experience when
scientific studies contradict their low carb beliefs?
Ignore the reduction in adverse events and
concentrate solely on the fact that regression was
'only' in single digit percentages and surely
therefore meaningless. Phew, glad I talked myself
out of that one, huh?
Jeff Howard
Goff
> Tom − ⚑
⏲ 2 years ago
Tom it's hard to understand how you
have the facts so wrong in your bashing
of Bellardo and Avi. Neither are anything
close to "low-carbers", though Bellardo
posits that it may be healthy to do a low-
saturated fat keto diet, especially if it's
plant-based. However, she herself is fine
with healthy carbs. They also do NOT
ignore the reduction in events - they
specifically state numerous times that
this is what's most important and
should be celebrated. This is why they
both recommend plant-based diets
both recommend plant-based diets.
They simply want to get away from the
"reversal of disease" claims because the
stenosis regression is not significant.
You should not bash people you don't
know anything about, as is clearly the
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R. Rand > Jeff

Howard
− ⚑
⏲ 2 years ago
Jeff - How bout this: Why
don't we all just agree that
your are right. About
everything.
You must be right . . . .
. . .. feel better?
Jeff Howard
> R. Rand
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⏲ 2 years ago

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Achyut Vemuri > plant_this_thought − ⚑

Not saying South Indian is inherently healthy but

Jonathon Lawrance > Courtnay − ⚑

'Epidemiological evidence and

As for carbs, fibre is a carb and appears

'More recently, studies in humans and

dietary fibers, possible novel

> Tom Goff

JustVisiting > Lisa Lehman − ⚑

painterguy > Lisa Lehman − ⚑

content. Some of his videos can be quite long.

Tom Goff > Jonathon Lawrance − ⚑

Most 'vegan' diets are unhealthy and the keto diet

Smarty > Matthew Smith − ⚑

Tom Goff > Jeff Howard − ⚑

The percentage regression was actually 5.5% (in

After 5 yearis, there was even greater stenosis

Of course if you are a low carber like Bellardo (and

Perhaps, though, that is how they try to handle the

R. Rand > Jeff

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