Nishi Gupta*, a 28-year-old PhD student in Delhi, is not someone you would call overweight. At 5’ 3”, she weighs 61 kg, an extra two to three kilograms out of her ideal height-weight ratio. She looks like any other healthy girl her age when she walks into a clinic at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, wearing a pair of denims and orange flower-shaped ear-rings. “I did not even drink alcohol,” she says, recalling her diagnosis from two years ago that indicated she had fatty liver disease — a condition where there is a build-up of fat in the liver.

Nishi was diagnosed with the condition two years ago after a routine full-body checkup revealed that her liver enzymes were all over the place. Her SGOT and SGPT levels were between 600 and 700 U/L as compared to the normal levels for t

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