The Spring Festival is approaching, across the screen, you can feel the motherland is full of New Year's atmosphere, the streets are bustling with traffic, bustling, and many people have begun to prepare for the New Year goods needed for the New Year.
The mainland is vast, the population is large, for the Spring Festival, although the region is different, the hometown customs and habits are different, but the hometown cuisine must be prepared for the New Year, chicken, duck and fish meat have their own practices, Chinese New Year's Eve the old age is also a custom, the whole family gets together, drinks wine and eats meat, resigns the old and welcomes the new, it is not happy! But the New Year at the same time to pay attention to our physical health, to ensure that we spend a healthy and happy Spring Festival, today we will talk about the Spring Festival bad habits of hurting the liver, we must pay attention to avoid, especially friends with bad liver.
Why does drinking alcohol hurt the liver?
There is a word in our life called "heart liver baby", which shows how important the liver is, Chinese medicine often says that the human liver can be "the main diarrhea, the main tendon, the blood", indicating that the function of the liver directly affects the patency of the human body's qi and blood, food metabolism and transformation, emotional regulation and bone and muscle activities.
And alcohol is definitely a first-class killer of liver injuries. After entering the human body, alcohol is first metabolized into acetaldehyde in the liver, then to acetic acid, and finally to water and carbon dioxide. In this metabolic process, acetaldehyde is the culprit of liver injury, it causes liver cell damage, elevated transaminases, and heavy causes irreversible damage to liver cells, and develops cirrhosis for a long time, and even liver cancer. Studies have concluded that men consume more than 40g of alcohol per day and women consume more than 20g of alcohol, which is an excessive amount of alcohol consumption, and the risk of cancer in the long run is significantly higher than that of others.
During the Spring Festival, drinking alcohol is almost a must-have program for people to eat together, but from the perspective of liver health, we must remind everyone: be sure to drink less!
These 3 habits hurt the liver more than drinking!
1) Stay up late
Staying up late is a common disease of modern people, but also one of the culprits of liver injury, in ancient times, people lived simply, working during the day, resting at night, ploughing at sunrise, and resting at sunset is the portrayal of most people's lives. In today's society, material life and spiritual life are rich and colorful, especially in big cities, especially in the nightlife, 12 midnight is the beginning of nightlife, but the best time for liver and gallbladder health is the ugly time, that is, falling asleep before 11 o'clock at night, our liver and gallbladder can get the fullest rest. Some people say that I don't sleep at night, and it is good to make up for a night's sleep during the day, in fact, it is not, the corresponding health schedule of the human body's internal organs is different, and the effect of sleeping at different times is not the same.
During the Spring Festival, people's social activities increase, it is easier to stay up late, and here we also need to remind everyone that for liver health, we must stay up less.
2) Overeating
During the Spring Festival, most people will eat and drink, some people almost eat big fish and meat, in addition to drinking wine will also drink cola, carbonated drinks or juice, can be described as overeating, directly leading to excessive energy intake, fat, induce fatty liver.
Many people are not unfamiliar with fatty liver, and those who are obese are often told that they have fatty liver in hospital physical examinations, and they should strengthen exercise to lose weight and fat. The liver is an important organ of the body's three major nutrient metabolism, if the diet is excessive, fat can not be metabolized into sugar, but stored in liver cells, the formation of fatty liver, long-term past may cause fatty cirrhosis, and even liver cancer.
3) Eat medicines or health care products indiscriminately
The liver is the largest detoxification organ in the human body and is involved in drug metabolism and the breakdown of poisons. If you carefully read the drug instructions, most drugs will write in the adverse reaction column that long-term medication can cause elevated transaminases, please take the drug under the guidance of a doctor. It is a three-point poison of medicine, and any drug cannot be eaten indiscriminately, and if it is eaten wrong, it will hurt the liver. There are currently more than 1,100 potentially hepatotoxic drugs worldwide, so be more careful when taking them.
In addition to drugs, health care products may also lead to liver damage, during the Spring Festival, many people will send health care products when giving gifts to the elders, but it should be noted that if too much health care products are taken, it will also lead to liver damage, and there have been cases of liver failure caused by excessive intake of health care products vitamin C.
summary
Therefore, remind everyone that the Spring Festival is approaching, while celebrating the Spring Festival, pay attention to the combination of work and leisure, scientific diet, and liver injury, do not covet cups and do not stay up late, do not overeat, do not eat medicine or health care products.
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