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Should chronic hepatitis B patients eat more sugar?

BY Berton Gladstone 2020-05-08

  It is very wrong to recommend that patients with chronic hepatitis eat more sugar or even glucose in moderation. In the past, when the living conditions were not good, especially in the 1960s, the country provided more sugar to hepatitis patients. At that time, the high sugar diet was emphasized to provide the body with sufficient calories. With sufficient food and abundant food, there is no need for a high-sugar diet. The food we eat, whether it is rice, flour or other, enters the blood in the form of glucose after digestion and absorption, and then eat extra sugar, whether glucose or white sugar (sucrose), fructose, there is nothing extra for chronic hepatitis benefit. And consciously, frequently or in large amounts of white sugar or glucose, these simple sugars are easily converted into fat, which will make people fat and suffer from fatty liver ("Clinical Nutrition" 2nd Edition, People''s Medical Publishing House, 2007) )-Instead it is detrimental to liver cells.

   It is generally believed that patients with chronic hepatitis B should reduce fat intake, ensure protein intake and increase carbohydrate intake. Proper increase of carbohydrate intake can not only promote the regeneration and repair of damaged liver cells, but also protect normal liver cells from fat damage. Carbohydrates (mainly including starch in food and sugar in sweets) are also called "sugar" in some professional textbooks (such as "Biochemistry"), so there is a saying that chronic hepatitis B patients should eat more sugar, but This sugar is not other sugar, chronic hepatitis B patients should increase food intake, not just eat more sweets or sugar (sucrose).

  In short, the claim that chronic hepatitis B patients eat more sugar is entirely caused by a low-level error: understanding carbohydrates (starch in grain and sugar in sweets) as white sugar. About chronic hepatitis B patients should properly increase food intake.

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