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Five Ways to Keep Your Liver Healthy

by Theresa Albert

It comes as a shock to people that most liver disease in Canada and the US is caused by food abuse causing obesity and not by alcohol abuse. The liver of a 10 year old overweight child who is fed junk all his years can be just as damaged as that of a 60 year old alcoholic.  Both conditions lead to cirrhosis and potentially cancer.

In fact, liver cancer is one of the very few cancers still on the increase. Why? Because people don’t know about the problem.  One in Ten Canadian has liver disease.  Many, if not most, don’t even know about it until the condition is very advanced. Perhaps irreversibly.

Your liver performs over 500 jobs and does so silently and judiciously.  Among those jobs are the master tasks of managing your cholesterol, hormones and filtering your blood. You can’t survive without any one of those processes. The liver is the largest organ in the body and when it is done doing all of that, it is the only organ that can regenerate itself.

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The Canadian Liver Foundation is sounding the alarm that we can no longer marginalize liver disease as one of  simply alcohol abuse.  Diet plays a much bigger role as does the very preventable, treatable Hepatitis A, B and C. Many are and will carry and transmit this virus without knowing it and yet simple, cost effective screening is available.

So, here is what you can do:

1. Have your liver tested for its functionality, it is a simple blood test that you can request from your doctor.

2. Have your liver tested for Hep A, B and C and have the appropriate vaccines

3. Remove as much sugar from your diet as possible, bad fats and excess calories. Any healthy lifestyle choices that you make for your heart will also benefit your liver.

4. Remove toxic cleaning products and air fresheners from your home, your liver has to filter these things out.

5. Watch all drugs and herbal medications. Acetaminophen in particular needs to be managed, high doses and/or in combination with alcohol it is very damaging. So, when that children’s medication says a maximum dose per day, adhere!

Category: Health & Wellness, LivingTag: diet, health, liver, sugar, test, Theresa Albert, wellness

About Theresa Albert

Theresa is a Communications Expert, Author, Speaker, Toronto Nutritionist, and sought after multi-media presenter. She is a regular guest on the international daily lifestyle show CBC’ Steven and Chris and covering news on CTV Newschannel making sense of health news as well as CBC The National.

You will find her tweeting at www.twitter.com/@theresaalbert, pinning at www.pinterest/friendinfood.com and on facebook at www.facebook.com/theresaalbert. To lurk all of Theresa’s social activity in one spot check out her personal page: www.rebelmouse.com/theresaalbert/

Named one of Canada’s Top 25 Tweeters by Today’s Parent Magazine and one of Savvymom.ca’s 35 Favorite Bloggers, she communicates about food and health where the action is. Boundless energy and the ability to distill complex concepts into simple, achievable ideas are her key strengths.

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  1. Katja

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    Those stats are scary.

  2. Samelia miller

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    Those are some surprising facts, thank you for sharing. If you would like please check out my blog it’s http://www.samelia.com

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