Starchy Food Bad As Booze On Your Liver?

Carboloading -

maybe not such a great idea after all, especially if you want to give long life to the liver! Safe to say we all know drinking to excess is bad for your liver but maybe it’s time to think about just what it is you are washing down with all that brew.

Researchers are saying that liver health can be measured by a blood test for a protein called gamma-glutamyl (GGT) and if your levels of the protein are too high, it suggests the liver is under pressure. Previously, doctors believed this indicated a patient was drinking too much, but now it's been linked to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which is linked to diet.

Experts believe that starchy foods pose a particular threat to developing the disease because they are rapidly turned into glucose and the body's first port of call for storing glucose is in the liver.

69 patients with high GGT levels were placed on a low-carb diet for 13 months and their GGT levels dropped by an average of 47 percent. It's hoped that low-carb diets could help limit the number of premature deaths from liver disease. (Daily Mail)