A study's definition of fruit, which included processed sugar-sweetened dried fruits and unspecified 'other fruits,' is too vague to conclude that fruit consumption worsens non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or is detrimental to humans.

“it's a little irresponsible when people in the nutrition community use headlines like this without getting really into the details of what is being done”

“the category of fruits was based on colored fruits dried fruits and other fruits well first of all we know that a lot of dry fruits have added sugar secondly other fruits what is other fruits does that include canned peaches does that include Maraschino chatted sugars so this is the problem of most nutritional research is that this study compared people with four or more servings of fruit per day and two or less servings of fruit per day and the fruit that they it's not real fruit this is the problem with nutritional studies today is that researchers don't really understand how to design study what is a dried fruit doing in this with potentially added sugar and what are other fruits we've which to me makes a study very suspect”

“And if you look at the methods of that study, people can go back and look at the previous podcast where I talked about this. That they it was it was observational, and I believe they correlated increased consumption of fruit with worsening of people that had pre-existing NAFLD. But when you looked at the methods, they they said fruit was fruit, dried fruit, and like some like fruit products.”