“Is alcohol the only cause of fatty liver?”
My boyfriend's father was diagnosed with fatty liver disease, but we're having trouble understanding what caused it. He doesn't drink, nor smoke. Are there other causes of fatty liver disease?
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Alcohol was considered the primary cause of f atty liver, until several decades ago when Mayo clinic reported that the toxic western diet could cause fatty liver. Indeed they called this condition NonAlcoholicFattyLiverDisease (NAFLD). The good news is that this condition, in absence of concomitant alcohol consumption, can be arrested and often "cured" by proper nutrition, which only a small minority in Western countries are getting. The bad news is that only a teeny fraction of the 30% of Americans afflicted with this disorder seem able to do, consistent with the growing evidence that there is an addictive process at the core of the current "obesity pandemic" and all it's nast associated illnesses---diabetes or pre-diabetes, high blood pressure, trouble with cholesterol, etc.---not to mention an increase risk of at least 15 different types of cancer. A number of medications for this condition are in clinical trials, but none so far are expected to obviate the need for radical change in nutrition
