Lucknow : Tips for a Healthy Liver

Introduction : The liver is a wonderfully resilient and complex organ that nurtures and protects your body day in and day out. It helps neutralize and dispose of toxins, feeds your body the energy it needs to function, fights off viruses and infections, regulates sex hormones, cholesterol levels and vitamin and mineral supplies in your body. And that’s only some of its 500+ functions!

To safeguard your liver health, it’s important that you understand the critical roles that the liver plays in maintaining your overall health and how activities that you may take for granted can help or hurt this vital organ. By learning more about your liver and how you can keep it healthy, you may actually help reduce your risk of developing not only liver disease but also other health conditions including diabetes and heart disease.

Tips

Eat fruits and veggies

Your diet should be high in fruits, vegetables and fiber-rich foods.

Avoid additives

Eliminate processed foods, artificial food additives, colors and preservatives from your diet to give your liver a break.

Focus on fresh

Eat plenty of fresh carrots and beets, both of which are powerful liver cleansing and rebuilding foods. In addition, eat plenty of green foods.

Limit sugar intake

Reduce refined sugar and avoid synthetic sweeteners altogether.

Incorporate lecithin into your diet

Lecithin also helps reduce high blood pressure by allowing the blood vessels to relax and enable better blood flow.

Ensure adequate vitamin C intake

Munch on nuts and seeds

Eat whole, raw, unsalted nuts and seeds for their essential fatty acids as well as their usable protein.

Remove fats from your diet

Avoid eating heavy, fatty foods since they just create more work for the liver. Reduce consumption of margarine, shortening and commercial oils — or any foods made with them.

Avoid late-night snacking

Avoid eating for at least three hours before bedtime to allow the liver adequate time during the night to perform its many functions, unimpeded by other bodily processes like digestion.