Skinny liver = skinny you!
A healthy liver burns off excess sugar, flushes toxins and helps turbocharge metabolism to rev energy and speed weight loss. All good reasons to keep your hardworking organ free from fat buildup that leads to disease! Here’s how… More natural health ne ws
Enjoy eggs and beans
Eat two eggs and 1⁄ cup of 2 edamame or other legumes daily and you can cut your risk of a sluggish, fatty liver— a condition know as NAFLD (nonalcoholic fatty liver disease)—by 80%! Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill explain these foods brim with choline, a B vitamin that heals and energizes liver cells, doubling their fat-burning powers! Avoid eggs? Taking 300 mg. of choline daily also works—try Twinlab’s Choline (Vitacost.com). Note: Check with your doctor before taking supplements.
Add avocado
The type of fat in avocado (monounsaturated) is actually good for your liver! No wonder Italian researchers say eating two avocados weekly cuts fatty liver risk by 55%—plus can help your liver burn stored fat 33% faster if already sluggish. Other great sources of these healing fats include nuts, seeds and olives.
Move a little
Getting 30 minutes of exercise daily will cut your risk of fatty liver by 35%, plus help your liver burn off 39% of its stored fats if it’s already clogged, report British researchers in the journal Diabetologia. Study co-author Mike Trenell, PH.D., adds that exercise even helps people with Type 2 diabetes—among whom fatty livers are common and hard to treat. Can’t spare a half hour? Three 10-minute walks daily work just as well.
Sip green tea
Three cups of green tea daily could make your liver’s fat stores plunge by 30%, report researchers in the International Journal of Preventive Medicine. Says study co-author Sara Safi, PH.D., green tea compounds (catechins) energize liver mitochondria—the tiny energy engines that soak up fats and convert them into cellular fuel. Bonus: A recent Chinese study suggests the same daily dose of green tea can block fat formation from ever occurring, cutting your risk of future liver troubles by 56%! — Brenda Kearns
for Great coffee news lovers! Studies show the risk of fatty liver drops by 65% among those who drink four cups of joe daily ( just skip the sugar, which causes the liver to store fat)