The #1 Worst Drink for Your Liver

You may intuitively know that the liver filters pollutants from your body and must be healthy. Alcohol is generally the first thought when discussing liver impairment. 

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Read on to discover what Boston medical and public health professionals claim may be the deadliest liver-damaging drink. 

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Some background on this study: Since 1948, the Framingham Heart Study in Boston has educated the public about how lifestyle choices like smoking 

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Based on the Framingham Heart Study's current phase, Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School medical and

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public health experts provided an intriguing update in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

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The authors describe their new publication as "a prospective observational study of participants 

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from the FHS Third Generation and Offspring cohorts." Examination of this sample began approximately 2002.

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It examined 1,636 descendants of the original study group. The "offspring" averaged 63 years old, whereas the third generation averaged 48.

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The researchers compared participants' sugar-sweetened beverage and soda consumption to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, "a condition in which excess fat is stored in your liver,

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