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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is mostly caused by two things:<\/p>\nNonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is mostly caused by two things:<\/p>\n
1) Eating fatty foods
\n2) Eating sweets that are then turned into fat<\/p>\n
So, a new study in the journal Foods<\/em> comes as a surprise.<\/p>\n It reveals one delicious, sweet fruit that counteracts the effects of a fatty diet on the liver and helps heal NAFLD.<\/p>\n A research team from New York and Massachusetts wanted to know whether grapes could ameliorate the damage caused by a typical Western high-fat diet. They performed their study on mice.<\/p>\n At 11 weeks of age, the mice were put on one of four diets:<\/p>\n 1. A standard diet After eating these diets for 13 weeks, the mice were euthanized so that the researchers could remove their livers and conduct a thorough series of tests.<\/p>\n What did they find?<\/p>\n 2. The grape powder prevented oxidative damage in the livers and other body tissue of the mice.<\/p>\n 3. The grape powder turned on 14 genes responsible for fat transport and processing, while turning off other genes responsible for the production of fat and cholesterol.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n In an additional study, the researchers proved that mice who were fed a high-fat diet supplemented with grape powder lived longer than those who were fed a high-fat diet without the supplement. The researchers estimated that the difference in lifespan translated to 4 or 5 years in a human life.<\/p>\n The most peculiar finding was that the mice on the high-fat diet with grape powder were still overweight, indicating that the grape supplement was able to combat NAFLD regardless of body weight.<\/p>\n But, of course, the grapes were only able to lessen the severity of NAFLD, not cure it.<\/p>\n
\n2. A standard diet supplemented with 5% grape powder
\n3. A high-fat diet
\n4. A high-fat diet supplemented with 5% grape powder<\/p>\n\n