A low-carb diet best for fatty liver

Study after study shows a more effective weight loss on a low-carb diet. And if you reduce abdominal fat, you’re also reducing the amount of liver fat. The disease fatty liver is strongly associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Not surprisingly, yet another study* shows that a low-carb diet can be a good treatment for fatty liver. In only six days on a low-carb diet, the reduction in the amount of liver fat was about the same as it was for seven months (!) on a calorie-restricted diet. Furthermore, the volume of the liver decreased, probably because of less glycogen and fluids (decreased swelling).
How do you effectively decrease the amount of fat in your liver? In the same way that you melt fat off your abdomen. Less sugar and starch in your diet.
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* Here’s another study showing a greater reduction in liver fat with a high-fat low-carb diet.
1. Physicians receive minimal training in nutrition. When I did medicine 33 years ago, we had one full afternoon. Nowadays, it is not much better.
2. That teaching, just like that of dietitians, is now heavily subsidized by Big Food and Big Pharma. So physicians are shown how healthy (!) it is for diabetics to eat and drink up to 300 grams of carbs (sight) in a pamplet made up by pepsico. In a way, with Big Food and Big Pharma heavily subsidizing medical studies, physicians and dietitians have now become in a way prostitutes, allowing Big Food and Big Pharma to dictate what they must believe and say to their patients.
3. Biostats and epidemiology teaching is minimal and the average physician is incapable of reading a medical article: they are happy to read the abstract and the conclusion, nothing more. So they cannot be critical of what Big Food and Big Pharma wants them to believe.
4. Medical school is quite long and the emphasis is on medication: there is now a pill for everything and sometimes, Big Pharma makes sure new diseases are invented so their pills can be used. Diet is seen as useless: only pills work of course... In many HMO's in the US, a physician has to prescribe a statin by the number: He may give a dietary advice, but needs to prescribe a statin in order to receive a full pay.
5. Surprizingly, many physicians have over-inflated egos and lack curiosity and when presented results obtained by diet, will reject them as a fluke: if it does not fit your preconceived ideas, reject it! I have rarely seen anyone wonder why intensive insulin treatment for diabetes results in more complications and deaths... Most physicians and nutritionists have also minimal knowledge of biochemistry. (I wonder if Cheryl is one of my pompous colleagues). So when I cured my mother-in-law's severe statin-induced cardiac failure (15% ejection fraction) and brought it back to normal (more than 50%) by stopping her statin and giving her ubiquinol, I only got a pompous sneer from the senior resident in cardiology: it was simply an accident, not her ubiquinol. I wish there were more accidents like that.
6. But there is hope. Some physicians (Andreas here, Jason Fung in Scarborough Ontario (Canada) are doing a remarquable job of presenting the evidence. I presented in the clinic where I am currently working in Hawaii Jason Fung's diabetes reversal program with LCHF and skipping breakfast to my colleagues. I presented the science and every physician decided this was a good idea. They have all started on LCHF because of the marked advantages this gives. One asked me many questions on this approach (she is an internist also) to treat her father's diabetes. Very open minded. There is hope, I tell you! I guess we'll need to get to a critical mass and then physicians will start noticing. Diabetes is exploding in the world. In Hawaii, I am lucky when the patient I see does not have diabetes or prediabetes. So I spend a tremendous amount of time teaching LCHF to each and every patient. Most react positively. There may be the occasional jerk, but it's his life.
7. Should you have an interest in diabetes reversal with LCHF and skipping breakfast, search Dr Jason Fung on Youtube. It is a video worth listening to.
8. So keep on doing what you are doing: it works! And politely refer your internist to Andreas' blog. Maybe her mind will open!
Good luck.