Diet and sugary drinks raise risk of fatty liver disease, study shows

(WXYZ) — Diet drinks are often seen as a healthier choice than sugary drinks, but a new study suggests that may not be true. Both regular and artificially sweetened drinks could raise your risk for fatty liver disease.

This study is quite interesting. Artificially sweetened drinks actually fared worse than regular sugary drinks.

Now, researchers looked at data from nearly 124,000 adults in the United Kingdom. Here’s what they found: drinking more than 330 grams, or about one can, of either artificially sweetened or sugary beverages every day, raised the risk of fatty liver disease.

In the U.S., this is now called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease or MASLD.

According to this study, sugary drinks showed a 50% higher risk of developing MASLD, while artificially swee