A new study in mice from the University of Missouri-Columbia is shedding light on how diet seems to change the specific bacterial makeup of the gut and instigate a metabolic process that leads to fat buildup in the liver.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, also known as fatty liver disease, has few symptoms. However, the risk factors include obesity, insulin resistance or Type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol or triglyceride levels, older age, and traits of metabolic syndrome. Fatty liver disease affects about 24 percent of American adults—many who don’t know they have the disorder—as well as a growing number of children….