5 foods that help you detoxify your body effectively

A proper diet offers many benefits to the body; conversely, if the table is filled with unhealthy foods, toxins will accumulate in the body over time, easily leading to illness.

Uncontrolled eating and eating a lot of unhealthy foods makes the body easily accumulate toxins. Therefore, many people experience bad skin, acne, mouth ulcers, and stomach pain.

Detoxifying the body is extremely important (Source: United Daily News)

While there is no single food that can completely detoxify your body, there are foods that will aid in the detoxification process of certain organs in your body.

Huang Shuhui - a nutritionist at Taipei Post Office Hospital (Taiwan) shares 5 foods you can add to your diet to help your body eliminate toxins better.

Sweet potatoes and pumpkins

Root vegetables are all rich in fiber, with sweet potatoes and pumpkins being especially recommended. Yellow foods are rich in vitamin A and carotene.

Fiber can promote bowel movements and detoxification. Vitamin A and carotene have the function of detoxifying the liver. In addition, sweet potatoes and pumpkins are foods rich in potassium, which helps promote kidney detoxification, so they are known as foods that enhance liver, kidney and intestinal detoxification.

Seaweed

Seaweed is rich in soluble fiber, which is beneficial for absorbing harmful substances in the intestines, replenishes beneficial bacteria in the digestive system, helps lower blood cholesterol, and is good for cardiovascular health.

In addition, seaweed contains substances with antioxidant, anti-allergic, and antiviral properties, thus contributing to strengthening your body's immune system.

Garlic

Allicin and sulfur in garlic help support the body's detoxification process. Eating sulfur-rich foods can increase the body's glutathione levels. Glutathione is an antioxidant involved in the body's natural detoxification process, and allicin also helps support liver health.

Green bean

Mung beans have a cooling effect and can help detoxify the body from substances such as alcohol poisoning, arsenic poisoning, and lead poisoning, while promoting normal metabolic function.

Thu Hien (Source: United Daily News)

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