There is a widely circulated saying in China: Sickness comes from the mouth, and evil comes out of the mouth!
Many people have a very one-sided understanding of the four words of the disease from the mouth, believing that it refers to eating unclean food and causing digestive tract infections.
As everyone knows, the various nutrients that our body needs, although they basically come from food.
However, unhealthy food choices can also cause damage to organ function and even become a source of disease.
Moreover, the damage caused by food is far more than just the simple digestive tract.
You know, the operation of the digestive system is actually very complex, the digestive tract is only a part of it, and the liver and gallbladder, pancreas and other organs are also involved in digestion and absorption;
In particular, the biotransformation mechanism of the liver is quite complex, and unhealthy eating habits will cause direct damage to the liver.
For example, the following four foods may be the source of liver damage:
1, high fat: the role of the liver in the digestive system, in fact, is to secrete bile, it enters the digestive tract through the gallbladder, and participates in the digestion and absorption of various lipid substances.
At the same time, the liver is also the largest metabolic organ of the body, which can carry out the biotransformation and metabolism of glucose and fat.
If you consume foods with more fat for a long time, it not only increases the metabolic burden of the liver, but also causes a large accumulation of lipids in the liver. Obesity caused by excessive calories is precisely the high risk factor for the emergence of fatty liver;
2, moldy and spoiled food: may not feel that this is necessary, because the current economic level is excellent, no one will eat this kind of food.
As everyone knows, moldy and spoiled grains and nuts may be hidden in life, such as inferior cooking oil, peanut butter and so on.
Not only are these ingredients as simple as mildew spots, they often produce a highly toxic substance called aflatoxin, which, when it enters the body, can cause damage to liver cells even in trace amounts.
Relevant research investigations have shown that 1 mg of aflatoxin has reached the carcinogenic dose of liver cancer;
3, alcoholic drinks: the main work of the liver is metabolism and detoxification, it has a certain redox reaction. After entering the body, more than 95% of alcohol is actually transformed and metabolized in the liver.
However, in the process of metabolism, whether it is ethanol itself or the metabolite acetaldehyde produced, it will cause direct damage to liver cells.
At the same time, alcohol also inhibits the liver's other biotransformation capacity, causing various substances to accumulate in the liver.
Long-term alcoholism will gradually develop into fatty liver, hepatitis, cirrhosis, and even cancerous, and the clinic will also call this series of changes "alcoholic liver disease";
4, only vegetarian: Of course, this is not to say that vegetarianism is not good, vegetarian fat and calories are extremely low, is the best choice for weight loss.
However, this is not to make everyone eat only vegetarian food. Because any food is a relatively nutritious type, long-term vegetarian diet may cause malnutrition, and the liver cannot synthesize apolipoprotein normally.
Triglycerides enter the liver but can not be converted to the next step, and eventually lead to the emergence of fatty liver.
From the above content, it is not difficult to see that if you want liver health, the first thing you have to do is to learn to adjust your dietary patterns.
This is not to let everyone eat completely vegetarian and excessive diet, but to rationally match healthy foods in three meals and control the total calorie intake of food. Only in this way can we play a role in protecting the liver on the basis of balance.