The recently renamed Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) is a widespread and preventable condition affecting many adults and children in Western societies. This disease, driven by poor diet largely consisting of ultra-processed foods, can lead to serious health issues like obesity and type 2 diabetes. The article emphasizes the urgent need for systemic changes, which include revising dietary subsidies, regulating marketing, enhancing nutrition education, and ensuring access to healthy, whole foods for all communities. Without these changes, MASLD's prevalence is likely to continue rising.
Ultra-processed foods, making up nearly 60% of the US diet, are linked to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and liver damage through mechanisms like gut-liver axis disruption.
Systemic change is urgently needed, including ending subsidies for ultra-processed foods, regulating harmful marketing to children, and investing in nutrition education.
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