How to prevent liver cancer? Eating this kind of food often can easily cause liver cancer

Aflatoxin in fungi is a carcinogen that can induce liver cancer in humans, monkeys, mice, and poultry. The shortest time required to cause cancer is 24 weeks. To prevent fungi from contaminating food, you should pay attention to the following:

1. Peanuts, corn, sweet potatoes, rice, millet, etc. stored at home must be dried thoroughly and stored in a dry and ventilated environment.

2. Moldy peanuts, dried potatoes, dried radishes, etc. should be discarded and cannot be eaten by humans, livestock or poultry.

3. Peanut oil and cottonseed oil should not be stored for a long time. When a large amount of grain, oil or dairy products are suspected to be contaminated with fungi, the quarantine station should be asked to check and they can only be distributed, sold or consumed after approval.

Precautions for daily diet in preventing liver cancer

1. Balanced nutrition

The nutrients should be balanced, without partiality. Eat more vegetables and fruits, more whole grains, and less refined rice and flour. Try to eat less animal fat and low-fiber foods.

Whole grains, fruits and vegetables are rich in minerals and vitamins, which help prevent liver cancer. The B vitamins in rice bran can protect the liver, and rice bran fiber can absorb harmful substances very well.

2. Avoid spoiled food

Healthy people will be greatly harmed by eating spoiled food, and liver cancer patients will be more harmed if they eat spoiled food. Corn, peanuts, and sweet potato chips stored at home are easily contaminated by aflatoxin, and the carcinogenicity of aflatoxin is 75 times higher than that of nitrosamine and 4,000 times higher than that of benzopyrene. Therefore, if you find these foods are moldy, do not eat them.

Liver cancer is the result of the synergistic effect of multiple factors, and its occurrence is multi-stage. Due to the effects of biological factors, chemical factors, etc., irreversible changes occur in the DNA of liver cells, and at the same time or followed by the cancer-promoting stage, the expression of cell genetic information is mainly changed, and immune surveillance cannot play a role, eventually forming cancer foci.

How to prevent liver cancer

1. Prevent hepatitis: Using hepatitis vaccines to prevent hepatitis and thus liver cancer has become one of the most promising ways to prevent liver cancer, but it is estimated that it will take decades to see results. It has been proven that hepatitis B vaccines are effective in preventing hepatitis. However, from a comprehensive perspective, prevention of HCV and HDV still needs to be considered. In addition to injecting hepatitis B vaccines, prevention of viral hepatitis also requires attention to the control of other transmission routes, such as diet, surgery, blood transfusion, injection, acupuncture and hairdressing.

2. Grain mold prevention: Mainly for corn and peanuts that are easily contaminated by AFB1. Moisture-proof storage is carried out during grain harvesting, threshing, transportation, drying, storage, etc. Grain that has been obviously moldy cannot be eaten; grain that is extremely mildly moldy is carefully selected, cleaned, and treated with drugs. In high-incidence areas, it is recommended to change the dietary structure and reduce the proportion of corn in the staple food.

3. Improve drinking water: In rural areas with high incidence, various measures should be taken in conjunction with the patriotic health campaign to improve the drinking water environment, changing from drinking ditch and pond water to drinking well water, deep well water, and rainwater, or building small water plants. In cities, unpolluted water sources should be used as the source of tap water, and environmental pollution should be prevented.

4. Appropriate selenium supplementation: For people with low selenium levels, selenium-enriched yeast, selenium polysaccharides, and selenium-enriched salts can be used to supplement selenium and increase blood selenium levels.

5. Other preventive measures include reducing the intake of nitrosamines.