What causes liver cancer? Eat this kind of food often and be careful of liver cancer

Bad eating habits are an important cause of liver cancer. Many people, for the purpose of saving money, are reluctant to throw away the yellow rice at home. However, they do not know that frequent consumption of yellow and spoiled rice can cause the body to ingest a large amount of aflatoxin, a strong carcinogen that can induce liver cancer.

The normal functioning of the human body is inseparable from the whole grains in daily life, but if you often eat yellowed and spoiled rice and other grains, it may pose a threat to your health. If the rice is light yellow, it is called yellow rice. The yellowing of rice is because the rice has a high moisture content during storage, which generates heat under the action of enzymes, causing mold to multiply, mold to appear yellow. Mold mainly contains aflatoxin produced by fungi, which is a general term for toxic metabolites of Penicillium islandum, Penicillium citrinum, and Penicillium chrysogenum.

Aflatoxin is extremely toxic and is one of the most powerful biological carcinogens currently available. Continuous ingestion of aflatoxin into the body can produce long-lasting chronic toxicity, causing great damage to the liver, leading to subacute and chronic damage to the liver, such as degeneration and focal necrosis of hepatocytes, hyperplasia of hepatocytes, and cystic hyperplasia of the bile duct, ultimately leading to the occurrence of liver cancer.

Aflatoxin can cause poisoning symptoms in patients, such as fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, loss of appetite, etc., which is one of the main risk factors for liver cancer. After 2 to 3 months, the patient will experience enlarged liver, pain in the liver area, jaundice, splenomegaly, ascites, lower limb edema and abnormal liver function. It may also be accompanied by an enlarged heart, pulmonary edema, and even convulsions and coma. Most patients will have massive bleeding in the rectum, liver, and stomach in the late stages.

Here are some tips for identifying yellow rice.

Look at the color: the rice grains are dull, yellow on the surface or have white grooves, are brittle and easy to break.

Smell: musty, low hardness.

Taste: The viscosity is low after steaming and cooking, and the taste is bland, musty and rough when eaten.

If you find that the rice you bought is yellow or moldy, you must deal with it in time and never eat it to avoid ingesting toxins, which can lead to cancers such as liver cancer and endanger your life and health. Only by maintaining a reasonable and healthy diet in your daily life can you effectively prevent the occurrence of liver cancer.