If you do not observe proper nutrition, it can contribute to poor liver function and aggravation of various diseases.
What needs to be done to make the liver function well? The first is a diet, while reducing foods that irritate the liver, food should be heat treated. Such a diet provides maximum peace of the liver at the same time without depriving the body of important nutrients for it.
What food can help restore the liver in case of discomfort and heaviness in the side, bitterness in the mouth? Given our rabid rhythm of life, our liver is prone to overload, consuming various excesses in food. This, for example, is a piece of cake, eaten after a nutritious dinner, or an appetizing fatty shish kebab, from which it is impossible to refuse. And the liver responds to this with weight in the side and bitterness in the mouth.
So, here are the most useful foods for the liver that will help calm our important body:
- consumption of pumpkin in any form (porridge, pumpkin seeds, pancakes, etc.);
- soups from vegetables - you can have a vegetarian, meat broth that is filtered;
- lean white meat of veal, chicken, turkey in boiled form, baked without adding oil, or cutlet steamed;
- lean fish - fillets of cod, carp, pikeperch, cooked in steamed or baked form. Well absorbed is a hake, tuna, pink salmon, pollock. Necessary for liver protein contains river fish pike perch, bream, carp, perch.
- Low-calorie cottage cheese fat content is not more than 2%, it is recommended about 100-200g per day, as well as dairy products in the form of curdled milk, kefir, tana.
- very useful porridge - buckwheat, from cereals, oatmeal;
- Olive oil of cold pressing, vegetable oils;
- Vegetables that have been mainly heat-treated, if liver tolerance is good, it can be fresh in the form of salads filled with oil;
- dried fruits - raisins, dried apricots, prunes;
- jelly, pudding, fruit jelly;
- dried grain bread;
- infusions of rose hips or chamomile;
- potato juice is very useful for the liver, fills it with energy and cleans;
- raw tomatoes contribute to reducing inflammatory processes in the liver;
- olives are also useful for the liver, increase the production of bile juice;
- Avocado protects the liver from the harmful effects of the environment.
An interesting fact: the liver is the largest organ in the human body, and can weigh about 1, 5kg. It is responsible for vital processes - it processes proteins, carbohydrates, processes fats and removes decay products from the body. The liver has the property of self-healing. Even the entire removed liver during surgery, the proportion of it is built again in a few weeks.
If a person has a liver hepatosis disease, he needs a special diet.
Here are some foods for the liver that are allowed to eat to restore the liver:
- Drinks . Do not use tea, tea with milk, natural coffee.
- Flour products . Bread rye, wheat, doctoral yesterday's baking. Oat cookies.
- Dairy products . All kinds of milk in any form - whole, dry, condensed.
- Fermented milk products - kefir, cottage cheese, sour cream, yogurt.
- Fats . Use them in moderate amounts. It is olive, creamy, sunflower refined oil.
- Dishes from eggs . An omelet from proteins is useful, the egg itself is added only to culinary products, but the yolk can be consumed in a minimal amount - one per day.
- An important place is occupied by soups . They should be prepared from fresh vegetables, without roasting roots. Preparation of dairy and fruit soups will also be useful.
- Cereals . A useful component of the diet - oatmeal, buckwheat, oats, with the addition of milk or cottage cheese.
- Meat, fish products should be steamed or baked. Meat of chicken, veal is contraindicated in patients with hepatitis.
- Fruits and berries can be consumed all but sour kinds - lemon, currant. It is useful to include honey in the diet, only in small amounts.
- Undoubtedly, raw vegetables and fresh herbs are useful.
- Snacks will include cheese, ham, cod liver .
What should be removed from the diet in case of signs of liver disease? Mostly it's all spicy, fatty, sour, smoked. The products of long-term storage, filled with preservatives, various stabilizers and dyes are excluded.
It is not recommended to eat fatty meat, such as beef, pork, goose meat and ducks, as well as lard, various sausages, marinades, in which there is always the content of vinegar. We must abandon the onions and garlic in raw form, chili, horseradish, mustard. It should be excluded the use of strong coffee and alcohol in any quantities.
What kind of healthy foods do you need to eat to maintain liver health?
It is such food that does not overload the liver and is easily processed. From vegetables it is useful to use carrots, beets, corn, tomatoes and cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchini, cabbage.
To soothe the sick liver, juice from carrots freshly squeezed into which a spoonful of sour cream or a spoonful of any vegetable oil can be well suited. Eggs are consumed only soft-boiled twice a week.
Necessary proteins are contained in legumes - lentils, beans, beans, green peas. Bean plants also have a diuretic effect, removing excess fluid from the body, which is very important for the proper functioning of the liver.
When liver disease is recommended to drink mineral water. Water should be heated up to 45 ° and it is in the healing stage, and not in the acute period of the disease. Drink one glass three times a day. If the acidity of the gastric juice is low, then drink 30 minutes before eating, with normal acidity for 50-60 minutes, if increased - for 1, 5 hours.