Many people mistakenly believe that unhealthy eating habits and unhealthy foods will only cause damage to the digestive tract.
As everyone knows, the nutrients needed for tissues and organs throughout the human body come from food. Moreover, the operation of the digestive and absorption system is quite complex, involving the gastrointestinal tract, blood circulation, liver and pancreas and so on.
Unhealthy eating habits not only damage the digestive tract, but also may cause damage to the liver, and even become a breakthrough in liver disease!
You know, the liver is the largest and most important digestive gland in the human body, it is responsible for the digestion and absorption function of two main parts, the first is to secrete bile to neutralize stomach acid, promote fat and vitamin absorption.
The second is to synthesize nutrients and convert and store other parts of nutrients. Improper eating habits and unhealthy food intake can increase the burden on the liver.
In particular, the following three types of foods can cause damage to the liver, and it may be too late to stay away now:
1. Fry food
In fact, in the clinical view, although fried food is delicious, after high temperature frying, the food, nutrients have long been lost in large quantities, has lost the value of eating.
Not only that, fried food will also produce a large number of trans fatty acids, in fact, the factors that lead to human obesity, and will increase the burden of liver metabolism and synthetic fat, resulting in a large number of free fats gradually deposited in the liver, and eventually develop into obesity, fatty liver.
And after frying, the food may also produce other harmful substances, such as class 2a carcinogen acrylamide is one of them, it may have carcinogenicity, increase the chance of the body suffering from various cancers, but also increase the metabolic burden of the liver;
2. Foods containing aflatoxin
The so-called aflatoxin is actually a highly toxic substance produced by aspergillus aflatoxin, parasitic aspergillus and other molds, its toxicity is 68 times that of arsenic, 1mg of aflatoxin can cause cancer, and because of this, it has been included in the who list of class 1 carcinogens. And this highly toxic substance is widely present in moldy and deteriorated grains and nuts.
If you eat such foods, or if you buy inferior peanut oil, tree nut oil, peanut butter, etc., it can lead to trace amounts of aflatoxin deposition.
Since the liver is a detoxifying metabolic organ, aflatoxin will enter the liver, causing damage to liver cells, and even inducing cell DNA mutations, increasing the chance of future liver cancer;
3. Alcoholic beverages
Although alcohol enters the digestive tract, alcohol does not decompose in the digestive tract, but enters the liver with blood circulation, and the liver secretes alcohol into carbon dioxide and water through enzymes.
However, in the process of alcohol breakdown, it will cause damage to liver cells, inhibit the liver's ability to metabolize fat, and develop into alcoholic fatty liver.
Over time, the DNA of liver cells will gradually damage and develop hepatitis, liver fibrosis, and cirrhosis. At the same time, alcohol also belongs to a class of carcinogens, and long-term heavy alcoholism will increase the chance of future liver cancer.
Written in the end: the ancients cloud "disease from the mouth", although the diet will not immediately cause harm to the body, but unhealthy, containing harmful substances, and even carcinogens of food long-term intake, but will lay hidden dangers for various diseases.
Therefore, if you want to be healthy with your liver, the first thing you have to do is to stay away from unhealthy foods and maintain a light, regular, nutritionally balanced diet.