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From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I'm Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease builds up harmful fat in the liver. But a small study indicates people with this condition can fight this by walking an hour a day at a brisk pace. At the Cleveland Clinic, John Kirwan saw it in data on 15 people over seven days.
The people in the study also were obese and showing signs they could develop diabetes. Losing fat would be good. Kirwan says exercise helped them do it, in their liver and elsewhere:
``Our recommendation would be to have these people get on the treadmill, get out walking, perform some kind of aerobic activity, and sustain that for probably an hour a day.''
The study presented at an Experimental Biology meeting was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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