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Written by Navneet Kaur, M.Sc. Nutrition & Dietetics

Diet

Enhancing Liver Health: Choosing the Right Foods

Liver being the second largest organ of the body, it helps in clearing out toxins, clears medication from the body and metabolizes the food that we eat. 

Introduction

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Along with this, it also helps in managing cholesterol levels, regulating hormones, make bile that helps in fat absorption and also store sugar for when you  need it. 

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Liver’s Function

All this is just a day task for liver, which makes it very important to detox it too.

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Liver Detox 

With the increasing pollution, change in lifestyle detoxification is the need of the hour.

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Need for Detoxification

For your liver health, it is important to make the following changes in your lifestyle, as given in the next slides.

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Tips

Though emerging as a new trend among youngsters, no amount of alcohol is safe or our body. If your liver is inflamed and you drink alcohol, it may cause Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

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Restrict or Avoid Drinking Alcohol

Exercise regularly and maintain an optimum weight, as obesity is also linked to liver health. Excess body fat may lead to stress on liver functioning and conditions like Fatty liver (whether alcohol-induced or not, depending on your choices).

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Maintain Healthy Weight

Opt for whole grains like oats, whole wheat, barley, jowar, bajra etc and fresh fruits like orange, apple, berries and vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, sweet potato etc.

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Healthy Food Choices 

Avoid refined grains and sugar: The quality of food we eat directly impacts our health. Refined foods cause inflammation in our body, thus impacting our liver health.

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Avoid Refined Grains and Sugar

Liver is the organ that takes care of the detoxification of our body, we need to take care of its health too. Apart from the above-mentioned points, try to include some other foods like garlic, ginger, nuts like almonds, walnuts, seeds like pumpkin, chia, sesame seeds in your daily routine.

Conclusion

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