Alcohol only causes liver disease if polyunsaturated fats are eaten as well .
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1989.tb00276.x
Discussion
no
Please critique the paper
You said alcohol only causes liver disease if you ingest PUFAs. I said no.
Alcohol can fuck up the liver on its own.
That being said, PUFA intake probably exacerbates alcohol-related hepatic disease.
Different things.
How do you explain that not all alcoholics get cirrhosis then ?
Most drunks don’t develop cirrhosis.
Multitude of factors involved in avoiding it: good luck, bad luck (something else killed them first), genetics, lifestyle factors, not drinking hard enough for long enough, or dietary factors (like we’ve mentioned).
This research is in rats (as is the research I am posting) so it's valuable but there is always the chance that certain things don't work exactly the same in the human body.
The signal seems to come entirely from linoleic acid where tallow has the lowest, lard more and corn oil significantly more (an omega 6 PUFA) and substituting alpha linolenic acid (an omega 3) inhibited NASH (precursor to NAFLD - fructose, like ethanol is processed by the liver)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29222-y
There is also the effect of conjugated linoleic acid. This is shown to repair NAFLD and is found in high quantities in beef and dairy fat
https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/135.1.9
Finally binge feeding ethanol still induces fatty liver disease even when saturated fat alone is paired with it (though it was worse with unsaturated fat) so it's still possible.