How to turn a smoker around with dietary therapy

The theme for this year’s World No Tobacco Day is “Tobacco Health Warnings” and the slogan is “Graphic warnings reveal the truth about the harms of smoking”. The poster above is great, and since No Tobacco Day always falls on the day before Children’s Day, the focus on the impact of smoking on children’s health becomes a more immediate association. Whether cigarettes are still smoked or not, if you can’t treat the cause, treat the symptoms. Look at what smokers can do from the aspect of eating it. 1, supplemental vitamins in certain compounds in the smoke, can make the activity of vitamin A, B, C, E, etc. greatly reduced, and make the body of these vitamins get a lot of consumption. Therefore, smokers should often eat more food rich in these vitamins, such as milk, carrots, peanuts, cornmeal, bean sprouts, cabbage, vegetable oil, etc., which can be supplemented due to the lack of vitamins caused by smoking, but also enhance the body’s autoimmune function. 2, often drink more tea. Because smoke contains some compounds can lead to thickening of the arterial lining, gastric acid secretion decreased significantly and blood sugar, etc., and tea in the unique catechins can effectively prevent cholesterol deposition in the blood vessel wall, increase gastrointestinal motility and reduce blood and urine sugar. Smokers should often drink more tea to reduce the onset of these diseases brought about by smoking; at the same time, tea can diuretic, detoxification, but also make some of the toxic substances in the smoke with the urinary discharge, reduce its residence time in the body. 3, often smoking easily lead to low selenium content in human blood, and selenium is an indispensable trace element to prevent and fight cancer. Therefore, smokers should often eat more selenium-rich foods, such as animal liver, seaweed and shrimp. 4. Smokers can supplement iron rich food, such as animal liver, meat, seaweed and beans. 5, because smoking can make the blood vessels in the cholesterol and fat deposition increased, the brain blood supply is reduced, easily lead to brain atrophy, accelerate brain aging. Therefore, smokers in the diet should eat less saturated fatty acids such as fat, and should increase some of the ability to reduce or inhibit cholesterol synthesis of food, such as milk, fish, soy products and some high-fiber foods, such as chili powder, cinnamon and fruits, vegetables and so on. 6, Cancer Institute published a survey report in advance, nuts and coarse grains containing vitamin E foods can make smokers get lung cancer incidence rate reduced by about 20%. Vitamin E-rich foods include soybean oil and other plant seeds pressed into oil; nuts, especially apricots, lentils, hazelnuts and hazelnuts, walnuts, sunflower seeds and coarse grains. 7, β-carotene is more beneficial to smokers, β-carotene-rich alkaline food can effectively inhibit the addiction of smokers, to reduce the amount of smoking and smoking cessation have a certain effect. Beta-carotene-rich foods are carrots, spinach, pea shoots, alfalfa, chili peppers, etc., smokers can eat more in moderation.