Daily sugary drinks linked to liver disease, warns transplant surgeon

Patients with advanced liver disease face life-threatening complications including liver failure, internal bleeding, and severe infections requiring transplantation.

In operating rooms across the world, liver surgeons are confronting a quiet epidemic that has little to do with alcohol or hepatitis — and everything to do with the daily, unremarkable act of drinking a sweetened beverage. Research now shows that nearly one in three adults carries some degree of fatty liver disease, driven in large part by fructose, a sugar the liver converts directly into fat with each repeated exposure. What was once considered a harmless habit has become, over the arc of years, a leading cause of liver transplantation globally. The body keeps a long and patient ledger, and

Daily sugary drinks linked to liver disease, warns transplant surgeon

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