"For now we don't have a way of predicting who will wind up in that shape, " says Richard Manch, a liver specialist at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Phoenix.

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So, basically the good ushers out the bad by dragging it to the liver, and the liver gets rid of it.

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We create these problems in the full knowledge that smoking is a killer, that drink destroys your liver, that obesity never going to be good for your heart.

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The large doses of fructose from both sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup may be particularly detrimental to your health as they can cause the accumulation of metabolically toxic belly fat, cholesterol abnormalities -- including high triglycerides and reduced levels of HDL (good cholesterol) -- and nonalcoholic associated fatty liver disease.

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High protein diet of Americans is linked to the high incidence of cancer in the US. Anyone who does not eat meat, eats only good food, and does all he can to protect his liver, may never get cancer.

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Its entry, torcetrapib, which is being combined with Lipitor, aims to raise the level of "good" HDL, which trucks cholesterol from the arteries back to the liver.

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This is sort of like your brother-in-law saying that although you're probably in perfectly good health, there is an ashenness in your complexion that suggests terminal liver cancer, and God forbid it should happen, but if it does, he would like to have your lake cabin.

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