Please stay away from these eight kinds of food to protect your liver

  The liver is the largest detoxification organ in the human body. The toxins and wastes produced in the body, the poisons eaten, the drugs that damage the liver and so on must rely on the liver to detoxify the liver, and an unhealthy lifestyle will damage the human liver. Shanghai Changhai Hospital General Practice Department Li Ruran Since the economic development, the people’s dietary conditions have improved, the wine culture is prevalent, the rate of fatty liver is getting higher, but the title of hepatitis B power is still in, and there are more and more people with chronic liver injury. Unhealthy lifestyles aggravate and accelerate liver damage, and liver protection should start with living and eating habits. Listed below are some of the most common foods that damage the liver: 1, wine: the intermediate metabolites of alcohol acetaldehyde can directly damage the liver, thereby inducing and exacerbating alcoholic liver, fatty liver, as well as alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis and even liver cancer. For people with viral hepatitis and fatty liver, the damage brought by alcohol to these people is the effect of “1+1>2”.  2, high-fat food: a large amount of high-fat food, not only will increase the burden on the liver, but also lead to an increase in blood lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides), thus inducing fatty liver, so we should try to eat less high-fat food, such as fatty meat, animal offal (liver, brain, intestines, etc.), sunflower seeds, etc.  3, smoked, baked food: research found that smoked, baked food, containing carcinogenic effects of benzopyrene, so we should eat less smoked, baked food.  4.Food containing nitrite: It is found that nitrite can be synthesized in the stomach as nitrosamines, which can become a strong chemical carcinogen and induce liver cancer, so we should eat less food containing nitrite, such as kimchi, pickles, salted fish, etc.  5, moldy food: moldy food will produce aflatoxin which has strong toxic effect and induce liver cancer, so we should avoid eating moldy food.  Processed foods: Processed foods contain preservatives and food additives, which will aggravate the liver’s detoxification and metabolism ability after large consumption, thus increasing the burden on the liver and inducing liver injury.  7, high sugar food: consume too much high sugar food, not only easy to be converted into fat stored in the liver, inducing fatty liver; but also make the gastrointestinal tract enzyme secretion disorder, affecting appetite, aggravating gastrointestinal flatulence, so try to eat less high sugar food, such as chocolate, desserts, etc.  8, spicy, stimulating food: spicy, stimulating food can stimulate the gastric mucosa, so that the secretion of gastric acid increases, thus increasing the burden on the liver, especially hepatitis patients will increase the burden on the liver after consumption, inducing gastrointestinal bleeding, so try to eat less spicy, stimulating food, such as chili, sesame oil, mustard, etc.