Fast food fans are more likely to develop a potentially life-threatening illness, warns a new study. Sicentists said if one in five meals eaten is junk food then you are at a higher risk of developing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) when fat builds up in the liver.
People whose diets are one-fifth or more made up of junk food, suffer from a moderate increase of liver fat. People with obesity or diabetes, who consume 20 per cent or more of their daily calories from fast food, have severely elevated levels of fat in their liver compared to those who consume little to no junk food.
Study lead author Dr Ani Kardashian, of Keck Medicine University in the US, said: “Healthy livers contain a small amount of fat, usually less than five per cent, and even a moderate increase in fat can lead to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. The severe rise in liver fat in those with obesity or diabetes is especially striking, and probably due to the fact that these conditions cause a greater susceptibility for fat to build up in the liver.”
