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:: Saturday, November 25, 2006 ::

Main causes of liver damage

"Medical information from Prof. Dr. Mufeed J Ewadh, Kerbala University, Iraq.

BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS
1. No breakfast
People who do not eat breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level.
This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

2. Overeating
Overeating causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

3. Smoking
Smoking causes various forms of brain shrinkage, which can lead to Alzheimer's disease.

4. High sugar consumption
Too much sugar can interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients. This can cause malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.

5. Air pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.

6. Sleep deprivation
Long-term deprivation of sleep can accelerate the death of brain cells.

7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with your head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide while decreasing the concentration of oxygen. This may lead to brain damaging effects.

8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying while ill may lead to a decrease in brain effectiveness as well as possible damage to the brain.

9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, and a lack of brain stimulation and complex thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

10. Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations promote the efficiency of the brain.

THE MAIN CAUSES OF LIVER DAMAGE:
1. Sleeping late and waking-up late.
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3. Over eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication.
6. Consuming too many preservatives, additives, food colorings, and artificial sweeteners.
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. Reduce cooking oil use as much as possible when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired.
8. Consuming overly cooked foods adds to the burden on the liver. Veggies should be eaten raw or lightly cooked. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting; do not store.

You can prevent illness without necessarily spending more money. We just have to adopt a good, daily lifestyle and healthy eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits is very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals.

TIMES WHEN THE BODY REPAIRS
Evening at 9 - 11pm: this is the time for eliminating unnecessary/toxic chemicals (detoxification) in the antibody system (lymph nodes). This time period should be spent relaxing or listening to music. If during this time, a person is still in an un-relaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this can have a negative impact on health.

Evening at 11pm - 1am: the detoxification process in the liver begins at this time, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 1 - 3am: detoxification process in the gall begins; also ideally done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 3 - 5am: this is the time detoxification in the lungs takes place. Therefore, there will sometimes be a severe cough for lung sufferers during this time. Since the detoxification process has now reached the respiratory tract, there is no need to take cough medicine, so not to interfere with the toxin removal process.

Morning 5 - 7am: detoxification in the colon takes place during this time period, and the bowels should be emptied at this time.

Morning 7 - 9am: absorption of nutrients in the small intestine. One should have breakfast at this time. For those who are sick, breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30 am. Breakfast before 7:30 am is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who always skip breakfast should change their habits, and it is still better to eat breakfast late, until 9 - 10 am, rather than eat no meal at all.

Sleeping late and waking up late will disrupt the process of removing unnecessary chemicals. Aside from that, midnight to 4:00 am is the time when the bone marrow produces blood. Therefore, have a good sleep and don't sleep late."

- As quoted from Janethull.com,
Healthy Nutritional Advice from the Middle East

Now, I'm not disputing the list because some of the items do make sense, except I'm curious about two things which mar this article from being... scientific... and thus, unquestionably believable.

First, the uncertain source of this article. Above, you see it being accredited to one Dr. Mufeed J Ewadh of the Kerbala University in Iraq. However, in the next link, you'll find that Mr Francis Earl A. Cueto of Malaya - The National Newspaper says it's from the Department of Health of Philippines which "placed an advisory". As far as my Google knowledge goes, the DOH of Philippines seems to have no such advisory on its webpage and Dr. Mufeed J Ewadh is a biochemist or lectures about biochemistry and is not very well known on the world wide web circuit. For now. =P

Who came up with this health advice? Is it officially documented somewhere by the author, or merely a casual reply to "How can I avoid liver and brain damage"? So many uncertainties!

I googled "Main causes of liver damage" and most of the sites that came up contained this article. What's troubling is that a majority of them are blogs or forums, which, while informative, do not exactly provide fodder for verifiable facts. And they all seem to have had acquired this information via email.

Except this one: But I would still be skeptical of it, because it's alternative medicine.

Dubious.

On to my second concern, the fact that nowhere in the article does it mention over consumption of alcohol. I do not have a degree in medicine or biochemistry, but I think alcoholism is a risk factor in liver damage, most notably, liver cirrhosis? And what about hepatitis, which can cause liver damage as well? There's no advice to not eat raw shellfish, although the author makes a valiant warning against eating overcooked vegetables. (And here I thought that overcooking vegetables was inadvisable only because heat destroys some of the vitamins contained. Unless when you say "overcooked" you mean "burnt to a black crisp".)

According to my pseudo-doctor consult, "The guy must be a surgeon" and "common causes of chronic liver disease would be as you rightly mentioned... alcohol and locally hepatitis B", you have little to fear about sleeping late and not peeing in the morning. Apart from it being a good guide to healthy living, there's not much scientific basis behind a few of the points, and I think you're far more likely to damage your liver by drinking too much or eating too much raw shellfish. Oh, and of course, taking slimming pills. Heh.

So if I were to suggest an improvement on this list (ignore the brain damage one, which seems to imply shy introverts may be slowly incurring brain damage):

9)Don't consume too much alcohol.

10) Avoid RAW or UNDERCOOKED shellfish in excessive amounts.

11) Don't do drugs.

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