The liver is a natural filter of the body. It is this body that takes on all the poisons and toxins that get into us from outside - with food or from the environment. The liver is confronted with a thousand dangers every second - only your liver knows about the authentic composition of food, about what the producers are hiding.
Nature has made this organ the strongest and largest in our body. The liver can self-repair, resurrecting, like Phoenix, almost from the ashes. However, if we only aggravate her situation with bad habits, work in toxic enterprises, unbalanced diet, alcohol - alas, and she can not cope with such a pressure of evil.
In principle, a diet for the liver should be our daily diet, saturated with your favorite food of the liver - products of green color.
However, for most of us, a diet for the liver means treating obesity of its tissues, that is, hepatosis.
Hepatosis - obesity of the liver
The diagnosis of hepatosis is made in cases where the liver is 10 - 15% reborn in adipose tissue. As it is not difficult to guess, fatty tissue can not replace hepatic, because it does not have filtering properties.
This disease affects both women and men equally. There are many reasons for the onset of the disease. First of all - alcohol. All other causes (metabolic disorders, protein starvation, prolonged shortage of vitamins, poisoning with toxic substances, over consumption of fatty foods) indicate the presence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Diet treatment
Diet to restore or treat the liver can last for years. To treat hepatosis from the patient requires discipline and patience, because you will have to adhere to one of the most common "digestive" diets - the curative food system number 5. As American scientists have shown, the greatest danger to the liver is not fatty foods, but easily digestible carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates with a high glycemic index lead to the deposition of fat in the liver (since the body receives too many calories at a time, it has to be put aside for storage).
Therefore, it should be deleted:
- white sugar;
- White bread;
- White rice;
- factory sweets;
- pasta and products from flour of the highest grade.
Under these prohibitions, most of our typical diet fits.
In addition, a diet with inflammation of the liver suggests a rejection of alcohol once and for all. Alcohol is the most that is a simple carbohydrate with a decent caloric content. Remember, the first cause of liver obesity is alcohol abuse.
A diet for cleaning and treating the liver should include:
- foods with a high content of dietary fiber;
- low-calorie foods;
- products with a low content of saturated fats;
- the total amount of fat should not exceed 30% of the total diet.
Therefore, boldly get carried away:
- beans;
- herbs, leafy vegetables;
- fruit;
- Untreated cereal crops (do not buy instant cereals).
The most favorite liver products
If in your case, it's not about treatment, but about preventive liver care, we suggest you include your favorite liver products in your daily diet.
- Pumpkin - the liver, in addition to the "green" products, also likes orange ones. Pumpkin contains a rare vitamin T, responsible for the breakdown of heavy food. If you are going to have lunch densely with pork, lamb, any other fatty product, we recommend you as a garnish - a pumpkin.
- Laminaria - in the people, sea kale. Laminaria , like the pumpkin, has filter properties. It contains alginic acid, by means of which the assimilation of heavy metals takes place,
chemical compounds and salts. In addition, due to the content of iodine, kelp reduces cholesterol in the blood. - Dried apricots - reduces the risk of liver cancer, which often develops on the basis of a weakened, fatty body. The composition of dried apricots contains phenolic components, which also relieve the liver of heavy cholesterol.
- Olive oil - protect the liver from what it actually has to fight. Free radicals, radiation, polluted air, tobacco smoke - all this olive oil takes over.