Originally Posted by
Titian 
Large amounts of fructose (like in HFCS) is hell on your liver in much the same way as alcohol is, so cutting back on it can only bring good things.
I think that fructose may be a real catalyst with respect to some of the "non-alcoholic cirrhosis" which seems to become somewhat prevalant lately.
My brother-in-law has never drank enough to keep a bird alive, but he was in the hospital last year with cirrhoisis, GI bleeding and esophageal varices.
I know someone else who never drank and who received a liver transplant for the same reason.
I recently read that high levels of fructose badly overload the liver and impede its function.
That is apparently in stark contrast to sucrose, which the liver metabolizes very well.