I watched this yesterday. When Sperlock went to the doctor...., the one where he eats Mac D's for 30 days. The doc said that Sperlock had a fatty liver due to his high fat diet and he had a few other elevated things. My question is does this "high fat" diet pertain to us also? Will our liver be fatty and sick?
I didn't know where to put this question so please move if need be.

Spurlock continuously eats meals that had, say, a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Large Fries, and a Coke. And the meat patty was the problem? Not the high-carb fries, not the sugary coke, not the processed white flour buns, or the sugar sauce they call ketchup?

Fat is always blamed, even if surrounded by sugars and simple carbs that make up most of the calories in a meal. They have isolated on the fat, and it makes no sense.

Maybe something to do with the RAPID weight gain.

Nuna, I had elevated liver readings for almost a decade, until I began eating low carb; now they're excellent. Not sure if you'd call my situation one of having a "fatty liver", but I'm grateful whatever it was seems fixed now.

I have been doing this "diet" for 4 years, when I get an exam, my doctor always, ALWAYS tells me to keep doing whatever I am doing. My test results are ALL optimal.

Thanks for the input! The info confused me when I watched it, they did mention the amount of sugr he consumed but the docs never mentioned it a being a danger , they only mentioned the fat intake...!

Sorry no spell check on this pc...

According to Dr. Eades (the author of Protein Power, and a guy who is really up to date on reading medical literature), it's fructose that causes fatty liver. Here is a blog post he wrote about the Supersize Me movie, and he addresses the fatty liver thing specifically: http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/?p=266

That makes sense, 'cause I was all fructosed up. I made Morgan Spurlock look like a piker when it came to putting garbage in my body, and I'm paying for it now by having diabetes.

Fatty liver is caused by overconsumption of grains and other carbs not fat..that is how they make fois gras, they forcefeed geese and ducks with a sugar and grain mixture 4 times a day to make their livers 3 - 4 times their normal size and very fatty. Poor sods.

Yep,

good old fructose is extremely efficient in inducing fatty liver in animals.

The grain that ducks and geese are fed in order to produce 'foie gras' is corn (the source of high-fructose corn syrup).

In ancient times, the Romans produced 'foie gras' by overfeeding ripe figs to ducks and geese.

They called the resulting fatty liver 'ficatum', meaning 'fig'.

Fatty liver is caused by too much alcohol or too much high glycemic foods. Fatty liver is common in type 2 diabetics

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...iabetes&spell=1

The problem is the high glycemic foods - not fat.

Low carb diet, supplements, and exercise usually fixes fatty liver in months.

I wonder how his liver is now, living with his vegan girlfriend

It probably left him months ago.