Nearly one in 10 Americans has Type 2 diabetes, and globally, more than 25 percent of people have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), based on studies from the past ten years.
Both diseases are largely caused by eating excess sugar, namely glucose and fructose.
How do these sugars impact the body differently? In which foods are they silently lurking in high amounts?
Optimistically, both Type 2 diabetes and NAFLD can be reversed, says Dr. Jason Fung, best-selling author of “The Obesity Code” and “The Diabetes Code.”
However, many people are unaware of how much glucose or fructose is in common foods like white bread and many fruits.
“Your blood glucose will go up more if you eat a slice of [white] bread than if you drink Coca-Cola,” Fung says.
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