What should you pay attention to in your diet to prevent liver cancer? Introduction to 6 folk remedies for treating liver cancer

The phenomenon of "mixing red wine, white wine and beer" that has become popular in recent years has made health experts very worried. Because a large number of studies in developed countries such as Europe and the United States have shown that alcohol is closely related to liver cancer, and the probability of liver cancer in people who drink mixed alcohol is 5 times higher than that of people who drink mild alcohol or do not drink alcohol. In fact, in life, in addition to alcoholism, there are many other risk factors that lead to liver cancer. Don't think that as long as you don't mix alcohol, everything will be fine. If you are involved in the following behaviors, you will not be able to escape liver cancer. So, what factors are likely to cause liver cancer, and what should you pay attention to in your diet to prevent liver cancer?

8 bad habits are most likely to induce liver cancer

1. Excessive smoking: Nicotine contained in cigarettes and ethanol, a metabolite of alcohol, are extremely harmful to the liver and are one of the main risk factors for causing disease and inducing cancer.

2. Eating processed foods: These "foods" are usually high in calories, lack of nutrients, high in starch and fat, and full of chemicals, which are harmful to the human liver and have no benefits.

3. Love to eat greasy food: Oil is indispensable in life; fat is one of the essential nutrients for the human body. Appropriate intake of fat-containing foods can provide energy for our body and maintain the normal physiological functions of the human body. However, eating too much greasy food with high fat content is a taboo for healthy diet!

4. Taking medicines indiscriminately: Avoid taking other medicines on your own except for the medicines prescribed by the doctor, because taking multiple medicines is prone to drug interactions and affects the liver's ability to metabolize medicines. When people with liver disease go to the doctor, they should tell the doctor all the medicines they are currently taking, so that the doctor can use them as a reference when prescribing.

5. Drug addiction: The liver is the "chemical factory" of the human body. The transformation and synthesis of various substances absorbed by the human body are completed by the liver. The liver is also the largest detoxification organ in the human body, responsible for breaking down toxic substances absorbed by the human body. The alcohol and drugs mentioned above may cause certain damage to the liver, not to mention the "drugs" that we change color at the mention of!

6. Lack of sleep: If you don’t get enough sleep and don’t rest when you should, it will cause a relative lack of blood flow to the liver, affecting the nutrition and moisture of liver cells, leading to a decrease in resistance. For those infected with hepatitis B virus, the already damaged liver cells will be difficult to repair and may even worsen.

7. Sitting for a long time: Joints, tendons, and ligaments belong to the liver system, and are the structural basis and important channels for the liver to vent and release. Sitting for a long time makes many people's joints, tendons, and ligaments stiff, losing flexibility, and making the channels in the liver's vent and release system blocked. Therefore, we often feel that the more we sit and the less we exercise, the more depressed or irritable we will be.

8. Seven emotions stagnation: Liver qi stagnation, whether fast or slow, will reflect a series of physical diseases, stomachache, abdominal pain, loose stools, headache, chest tightness, irregular menstruation, breast hyperplasia, uterine fibroids, pigmentation, high blood lipids, fatty liver, high blood pressure, etc. Most people often cannot withstand the impact of repeated anger and anger, which will lead to liver qi rebellion and liver yang surge, which is very harmful to the liver and people.

Summary of dietary principles for liver cancer health care

1. Provide high-protein, high-calorie, high-vitamin, low-fat food. Limit the intake of animal oil.

2. Eat a diversified diet and pay attention to food combinations to ensure that the food has color, aroma and taste to help increase appetite.

3. Eat soft food that is easy to digest, avoid hard and spicy food, eat less fried food, eat small meals frequently, avoid irritating food and food with high plant fiber content, so as not to cause rupture and bleeding of esophageal or gastric veins in patients with liver cirrhosis.

4. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, drink fruit juice, and supplement vitamins.

5. Patients with fever should drink more water to help dissipate heat.

6. People who vomit frequently should temporarily fast to prevent food from irritating the stomach, increasing the frequency of vomiting, and wasting physical energy.

7. For patients with ascites, sodium intake should be restricted and a low-salt or salt-free diet should be given.

8. Patients in the early stage of hepatic coma or hepatic coma should be given a low-protein diet with a total daily protein amount of 20-40g. Try to use animal protein with high physiological value, such as milk, eggs, lean meat, etc.

Introduction to 6 folk remedies for treating liver cancer

1. Main symptoms of liver qi stagnation: distension and pain in the right hypochondrium, chest tightness and discomfort, sighing, poor appetite, occasional diarrhea, a lump under the right hypochondrium, a thin white tongue coating, and a stringy pulse. Soothe the liver and strengthen the spleen, regulate qi and activate blood circulation.

2. Main symptoms of damp-heat toxicity: irritability, yellowing of the body and eyes, dry and bitter mouth, decreased appetite, abdominal distension, stabbing pain in the ribs, red urine and dry stools, dark purple tongue, yellow and greasy tongue coating, stringy or slippery pulse. Treatment principle: clear away heat and promote bile secretion, purge fire and detoxify.

3. Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment for primary liver cancer: Astragalus, tortoise shell, turtle shell, Alisma orientalis, Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria, Angelica sinensis, Oldenlandia diffusa, Scutellaria barbata. Functions: invigorating Qi and nourishing Yin, clearing away heat and activating blood circulation. Suitable for primary liver cancer. The method of use is decocting in water.

4. Main symptoms of Qi stagnation and blood stasis: huge lumps under the hypochondrium, hypochondrium pain radiating to the back, which is resistant to pressure and worse at night, abdominal distension, loss of appetite, loose and irregular stools, fatigue, dark purple tongue with ecchymosis and petechiae, and deep, thin or stringy and astringent pulse.

5. Liver cancer patients can take selenium supplements appropriately when they are in the late stage. Some patients are zinc-deficient. For people with low selenium, selenium-enriched yeast, selenium polysaccharides, and selenium-enriched salts can be used to supplement selenium and improve blood selenium levels.

6. Liver cancer patients must not smoke or drink alcohol, which is to reduce the intake of nitrosamines. Smoking and drinking are also bad for fatty liver. Drinking wine, beer, and a small amount of alcohol can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, but this is not true. Alcohol is harmful to the human body. The gastric mucosa in the stomach has a protective effect on the human body. Alcohol can digest the gastric mucosa, injure the gastric cells, and the toxic substances in the food are easily absorbed by the stomach.