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Pure maple syrup promotes healthy liver
Wednesday September 14, 2011 05:18:45 PM,
IANS
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Toronto: Here's good
news for those suffering from fatty liver disease - pure maple
syrup is likely to boost your liver, new research suggests.
Keiko Abe of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of
Agricultural and Life Sciences conducted the pilot study on rats.
Lab rats fed on a diet with some pure maple syrup yielded much
better results in liver function tests than the control groups,
the journal Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry reports.
"It is important to understand the factors leading to impaired
liver function - our lifestyle choices including poor diet, stress
and lack of exercise," says Melissa Palmer, clinical professor in
hepatology at New York University Plainview.
"The preliminary results...are encouraging and emphasize the
importance of choosing a healthy diet to help counteract the
lifestyle and environmental factors that may impact liver
function, even our choice of a sweetener," adds Palmer, according
to a university statement.
Liver health is of utmost importance because of the hundreds of
vital functions it performs that are essential to human life.
Some of them include storing energy (glycogen), regulating blood
glucose, the production of certain amino acids (building blocks of
protein) and filtering harmful substances from the blood.
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