I find it interesting that there are separate terms for alcohol-related and non-alcoholic-related fatty liver disease. Both alcohol and fructose (sugar is half fructose) are metabolized through the same pathway in the liver. Add inflammation and both can end up as steatosis, then eventually cirrhosis.

I'm not a medical pro, but I'd expect that detecting a fatty liver is the first step to catching either one. There are scales that can do this using something called bioimpedance measuring. The major change in a doctor's office would be taking off your shoes and socks before getting on the scale.

As a side note, most of these can also indicate skeleton bone weight, something to track if you're over 50 and female.

I don't have a scale recommendation as I'm not etirely pleased with the one I bought. Hey, it was under $20, so more of an impulse buy. There's a buyers' guide - which I probably should have paid better attention to, but, hey, twenty bucks...

So, if you're drinking alcohol, or drinks with fructose (soda, orange juice, etc.) this looks to be a cheap way to see if you're getting into trouble.