Large Amounts of Sugar Are Turned into Fat in Your Liver

High-fructose corn syrup and table sugar (sucrose) both contain about equal proportions of the two molecules glucose and fructose. Every cell in your body has the ability to metabolize glucose, but your liver is the only organ that can do the same for fructose.

The simplest and most common way to consume too much fructose is through sugary drinks. Sugar will be turned to fat and stored in adipose tissue if you consume more than your liver and muscles can store as glycogen. Lipogenesis is the name of this process. In other words, excessive sugar consumption results in fat storage. While some of the fat is transported outside of your body as blood triglycerides, some of it is stored in the liver. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease may eventually result from this over time.