A short YouTube health video (speaker: Dr. Tabatha Barber) explaining that dietary simple carbohydrates and sugar are converted by the body into fat which is stored in the liver and adipose tissue. The speaker links excess sugar intake and low physical activity to accumulation of liver fat and the widespread occurrence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
When we are storing fat in our liver or in our adipose tissue, or around our other major organs, it's from sugar. So when we eat simple carbohydrates, we eat straight up sugar, we drink sugar. What your body does is it takes those sugars and it converts it into fat and stores it in your liver, hoping that you will use it right away the next time you go out to do something, the next time you're going to run or fight. But most of the time we live in this comfortable society where we don't move our bodies, we don't do a lot of physical activity. And so that fat stays there and it just, we add more and more. And so we now have this phenomenon that's very common called non alcoholic fatty liver disease.
