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Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/_a1bjl42fik   This plant sugar, naturally found in fruits, real fruit juices, and honey but added to table sugar, highly processed foods, and beverages, harms your liver by preventing its normal processing of fat.  Researchers at Boston’s Joslin Diabetes Center now report this result following their in-depth study of liver cell metabolism.   Their research shows that this fructose effect amplifies the physical damage to liver cellular mitochondria triggered by eating a high fat diet.  Fructose plus fatty foods will trigger a degenerative, fatty liver cured only by a transplant.   Don’t stop eating fruits but rather avoid high fructose corn syrup, honey, maple flavored and agave syrup, and molasses. Of course, that’s in addition to skipping the fries and pastries.   Joslin Diabetes Center. "High-fructose and high-fat diet damages liver mitochondria: Increases fatty-liver disease risk and metabolic syndrome." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 1 October 2019. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20