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COULD YOUR DIET BE DAMAGING YOUR LIVER?

Keeping your liver healthy is essential to overall good health. Your liver performs more than 500 vital functions, including removing toxins, filtering blood, storing glucose for energy, digesting fats, and absorbing vitamins and minerals. Research suggests that what you eat can have a major impact on the functioning of your liver. For instance, too much refined sugar and saturated fat leads to inflammation, damaging the liver and preventing it from functioning optimally. This can increase your risks for conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease, high cholesterol, liver failure and even cancer. Fortunately, your liver is an incredibly regenerative organ, and changing your