Essential Health Knowledge: Which 12 Toxins Do Fruits and Vegetables Remove from the Body?
Food is something we must eat every day, yet it is also the best medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "medicine and food share the same origin." Proper food can cure diseases without side effects. Japanese scholar Hiroaki Abe believes that to maintain health and vitality, the following 12 internal toxins must be removed.
1. Internal Waste Gas
Typical symptoms: Frequent bloating and very smelly flatulence.
Long-term accumulation results: Abdominal pain, worsening of ulcers, skin aging, and an increased risk of cancer.
Food solutions: Sweet potatoes, foods rich in lactic acid bacteria.
2. Fecal Impaction
Typical symptoms: A feeling of residual stool after daily bowel movements, or no bowel movements for more than 3 consecutive days within a week.
Long-term accumulation results: Rough skin, bloating, abdominal pain, and colorectal cancer.
Food solutions: Whole grains rich in dietary fiber, water, grains, beans, seaweed, apples, yogurt, and foods rich in oligosaccharides.
3. Blood Stasis
Typical symptoms: Body pain, cold hands and feet, for women, it manifests as dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation.
Long-term accumulation results: Reduced function of various organs, uterine fibroids, endometriosis, and infertility.
Food solutions: Ginger, carrots, safflower, apricots, cinnamon, salted plums.
4. Lactic Acid
Typical symptoms: Heavy body, sore shoulders and neck, feeling fatigued.
Long-term accumulation results: Rheumatism, neuralgia, and an increased risk of cancer.
Food solutions: Foods rich in B vitamins, vinegar, and foods rich in aspartic acid.
5. Alcohol Toxin
Typical symptoms: Red face, pale complexion, palpitations, headache, dizziness, nausea, and vomiting.
Long-term accumulation results: Alcohol dependence, alcoholic hepatitis, and cirrhosis.
Food solutions: Water, persimmons, shellfish, turmeric, aloe vera, and protein-rich foods.
6. Water Toxin
Typical symptoms: Edema, dizziness, frequent urination, and large amounts of urine.
Long-term accumulation results: Rhinitis, allergic dermatitis, weight gain, joint pain, anhidrosis, or hyperhidrosis.
Food solutions: Potatoes, cucumbers, red beans, watermelon, carp, and potassium-rich foods.
7. Uric Acid
Typical symptoms: Swelling and pain at the base of the big toe, thirst, and frequent urination.
Long-term accumulation results: Gout, hyperuricemia, kidney disease, and uremia.
Food solutions: Celery, tomatoes, mineral water, and black-colored foods.
8. Bad Cholesterol
Typical symptoms: No obvious symptoms in the early stage. When xanthomas (pale yellow fatty lumps) appear, the condition may have already become severe.
Long-term accumulation results: Arteriosclerosis, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction, thromboangiitis obliterans, and gallstones.
Food solutions: Sesame, green tea, dried shiitake mushrooms, citrus fruits, soybeans, nuts, kelp, nori, and olive oil.
9. Visceral Fat
Typical symptoms: A large abdomen, difficulty breathing, rapid heart rate, poor concentration, and forgetfulness.
Long-term accumulation results: Myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction, diabetes, and cirrhosis.
Food solutions: Oolong tea, coffee, foods rich in lecithin, foods rich in capsaicin, chitosan, chitosan-containing foods, and chives.
10. Thick Blood
Typical symptoms: Generally no obvious symptoms. When symptoms appear, arteriosclerosis and its complications have often already developed.
Long-term accumulation results: Arteriosclerosis and thrombosis.
Food solutions: Natto, mackerel, garlic, ginkgo biloba extract, and water.
11. High Blood Sugar
Typical symptoms: Abnormal thirst, increased frequency and volume of urination, eating more but losing weight progressively.
Long-term accumulation results: Diabetes and its complications, such as diabetic neuropathy, diabetic retinopathy, and diabetic nephropathy.
Food solutions: Onions, vegetables with a slimy texture, tea, chromium-rich foods, and foods rich in alpha-linolenic acid.
12. Free Radicals
Typical symptoms: No typical symptoms, but they damage various parts of the body.
Long-term accumulation results: Aging of all organs, decreased immunity, and increased susceptibility to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer.
Food solutions: Mushrooms, yellow-green vegetables, cruciferous vegetables, vitamin E-rich foods, vitamin C-rich foods, polyphenol-rich foods, and selenium-rich foods.