These 9 Foods Are More Harmful To Your Liver Than Alchohol!
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Your health is one of the most important things in your life. It affects your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. That's why it's so important to be cautious about your health and take steps to prevent illness and disease.
But actually the first thing to understand when it comes to take care of your body is to keep your gut health on check because it is important to drive you whole day as it is responsible for providing you nutrition. In keeping your gut health on check your liver plays an effective role. No it's not the liver Orry was talking about.
This liver is located in the upper right-hand portion oShaped like a cone, the liver is a dark reddish-brown organ that weighs about 3 pounds. The liver regulates most chemical levels in the blood and excretes a product called bile. This helps carry away waste products from the liver.
It basically detox your body and keeps your digestive system easy to move. Now it's our responsibility to not put toxic food in our stomach to help liver and digestive system to work easily. We have often heard that alcohol is very harmful for your health and liver but there are more food which you should avoid eating to protect liver as follows.
1. Saturated fats - Saturated fat is a type of dietary fat. It is one of the unhealthy fats, along with trans fat. These fats are most often solid at room temperature. Foods like butter, palm and coconut oils, cheese, and red meat have high amounts of saturated fat.
2. Added sugars - These are your favourite sugars and syrups that are added to foods or beverages when they are processed or prepared. Naturally occurring sugars such as those in fruit or milk are not added sugars. Added sugars have many different names.
3. Processed meats - meats that have been preserved by smoking or salting, curing or adding chemical preservatives. They include deli meats, bacon and hot dogs.
4. Food additives - are chemicals added to foods to keep them fresh or to enhance their colour, flavour or texture. They may include food colourings, flavour enhancers or a range of preservatives.
5. Hydrogenated oils - is made from edible oils extracted from plants, such as olives, sunflowers, and soybeans.
6. Salt and high sodium foods - breads, pizza, sandwiches, burritos, tacos; savory snacks etc.
7. Highly processed carbs - like white flour, white bread, white rice, pastries, sodas, snacks, pasta, sweets, breakfast cereals and added sugars.
8. Soft drinks - Because of their processing and high level of sugars.
9. Excessive fructose foods - consumption may be responsible in part for the increasing prevalence of obesity, diabetes mellitus, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Well that sums up too much of our favorite food we eat on everyday basis. You don't need to eliminate all of the food but you can limit its consumption to stay healthy and fit.