Health maintenance refers to the maintenance, conditioning and nurturing of life. In other words, to regulate yin and yang, and qi and blood, and protect the spirit as the principle, the use of the spirit of conditioning, guide the exhalation, the four times of regulation, food, medicine, abstinence, and restrain grain and other methods, in order to achieve the purpose of health, longevity. The practice of nourishing the body was born out of the need of the ancient ancestors to resist the harsh natural environment, adjust their physical strength, resist diseases and prevent them. It is an integral part of the traditional Chinese culture, and is the result of the life experience of the ancestors in their long-term life practice. It is 68 times more toxic than arsenic, boiling water does not kill! Your home kitchen may also have …… 1 mg aflatoxin, is a carcinogenic dose! Toxic! Aflatoxin, classified by the World Health Organization as a class 1 carcinogen, is also an extremely toxic and highly toxic substance. Aflatoxin B1 is 68 times more toxic than arsenic and 10 times more toxic than potassium cyanide, and is extremely destructive to liver tissue. It causes cancer! It is also the strongest biological carcinogen we know of, with 1 mg being a carcinogenic dose, and in 1993 it was classified as a Group 1 carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Agency for Research on Cancer. The most frustrating thing is that this highly toxic carcinogen is present in our daily lives. Beware! Aflatoxin is hidden in all these foods! 1, a peanut moldy, it is best to throw away a packet of all aflatoxin is most like to hide in moldy food, especially food with high starch content, peanuts are no exception, in a hot and humid environment, the most likely to breed this carcinogenic mold. Note: If there is a peanut mold, the entire package of peanuts should be thrown away. Aspergillus flavus is spread in the form of spores, food is highly susceptible to implicate mold. 2, bitter nuts If you eat bitter melon seeds, almonds and other nuts, you must promptly spit out and rinse your mouth. Because the bitter taste of melon seeds and other nuts, it is from the process of mold produced aflatoxin. Often ingested, will increase the risk of liver cancer. Suggestions: eat moldy, bitter nuts, do not be lazy, must be immediately spit out. 3, soaked fungus for several days There was such news: Zhejiang Rui’an, a consumer, due to eat soaked black fungus for three days to food poisoning, resulting in multiple organ failure, life threatening. The doctor gave the result of the visit: it was a subsequent serious consequence caused by microbial toxins. The fungus produces aflatoxin, penicillin, etc. in soaking. Suggestion: how much fungus to eat soak, do not soak for several days. 4, not washed chopsticks Chopsticks themselves do not grow aflatoxin, but usually use chopsticks to eat corn, peanuts and other starchy food, chopsticks are easy to hide starch. Over time, this leads to mildew and aflatoxin. Naked chopsticks and lacquered chopsticks are very prone to cracking and hiding food residues, which can produce aflatoxin. Suggestions: (1) The best choice is iron chopsticks, which are difficult to crack and will not have food residues; (2) When washing chopsticks, remember to soak them first to soften the food residues so that they can be easily cleaned off. 5. moldy corn Aflatoxin, hidden in moldy food, especially peanuts, corn, beans and other foods with high starch content. Starch in a hot and humid environment will breed aflatoxin that causes liver cancer. Suggestions: (1) buy less each time, do not “store” to avoid mold; (2) if you find a peanut bad, the bowl of peanuts, or a bag of peanut rice stored have to be thrown away; (3) the edges of the home with food residues, but also to clean. 6, small workshop self-pressing oil General small workshop presses, or home oil presses simple process, no removal of harmful substances process, can not refine the raw materials, so the shelled appearance, the normal internal has appeared aflatoxin peanuts, is not picked out. Raw materials moldy, the oil squeezed may also bring in aflatoxin. Suggestion: go to a large supermarket to buy well-known brands. General high temperature, ultraviolet light can not kill, how can we keep aflatoxin away from us? Many people said, I steam food in the pot well, can not “sterilize”. But this is not true. The general cooking and processing temperature cannot destroy aflatoxin, because the aflatoxin cleavage temperature is 280℃. Only when it reaches 280 degrees Celsius can it be inactivated, so general cooking methods can’t be disinfected. Even disinfection cupboards do not work. Aflatoxin is resistant to UV light. What to do? 1. When the oil is hot, add salt first A small action before cooking can help eliminate a certain amount of aflatoxin. If we heat cooking oil such as peanut oil, pour it into a pot, and put in a small amount of salt, stir for 10~20 seconds, this will basically eliminate most of the aflatoxin in the cooking oil. The neutralization and degradation of aflatoxin by salt can eliminate about 95% of aflatoxin. 2, eat more green leafy vegetables Eating more green leafy vegetables can make part of the aflatoxin that we usually accidentally eat fail. Because chlorophyll can stop aflatoxin absorption and prevent liver cancer.