Foods That Are Good For Your Liver

Do you have excess fat in you abdominal area and have trouble loosing weight? If so you may have a ‘fatty liver’ or (FLD). In the U. S. about 15% to 20% of the general population has a fatty liver. The incident of this is much higher in obese people. What is a fatty liver? Quite simply put, it’s when the liver stops burning fat and turns it into a fat storing organ. Those who have a fatty liver will not be able to lose weight until they first improve their liver function. The good news is there is foods that can help heal your liver.


According to Dr. Sandra Cabot, author of the book, “The liver Cleansing Diet”, you need to be patient. It can take between 3 to 12 months to remove the excess fat from the liver, depending on the amount of fat that has accumulated. Then weight lose will occur easily.
Fatty liver can lead to scarring of the liver tissues (cirrhosis) but the good news is, the liver is one of the most resilient organs in the human body. It is capable of much self-healing when given a chance.
Many doctors still do not make the connection between the American diet and the fatty liver. They may tell their patients that nothing can be done and the condition simply should be ‘monitored’.

You can reverse a fatty liver.

Conventional medicine has no specific therapy or drug treatment to reverse a fatty liver; in fact, many drugs such as cholesterol lowering drugs can exert toxic effects on liver cells. Dr. Nimer Assy, Director of the liver unit at Ziv Medical Center in Halva, Israel, reported that people who drank more than a quart of sweetened beverages daily were five times more likely to have fatty liver disease than those who drank much less. These are drinks sweetened with corn syrup, high fructose, aspartame, and natural occurring fructose. Dr. Assy suggests patients limit soft drinks and juices to one glass a day. He recommends eating the whole fruit or juices that contain the pulp. The fiber in the pulp prevents the fructose from being absorbed in the liver.

Aspartame and caramel colorants can lead to the same fatty condition because it increases insulin resistance. Studies have found that the methanol in aspartame converts to formaldehyde. The human body cannot eliminate formaldehyde. Because aspartame metabolizes into formaldehyde and formic acid takes place in the mitochondria, it is the mitochondria tissues, which are attacked. These two toxic substances cause fats to be unprocessed into energy. This may explain why many people cannot lose weight.

What foods are good for your liver?

Dr. Max Gerson, author of the “Gerson Theory”, believed that cancer in general was a disease of the liver. He believed this was true even if the cancer occurred elsewhere in the body and was often due to environmental toxins. He theorized, that many modern diseases could be eliminated by a raw organic diet, and that liver health was paramount.

· Think raw: Eat plenty or raw fruit and vegetables, especially dark green, leafy vegetables. The chlorophyll in the green leafy vegetables aids in liver repair.

· Eat a wide variety of foods: Choose many colors or fruits and vegetables. Pick orange, yellow, purple and red colored fruits and vegetables. Try to eat some raw fruits or vegetables at each meal. They contain living enzymes, vitamin C, natural antibiotic substances and anti-cancer antioxidants.

· Replace meat and meat products with fish or free-range chicken.

· Instead of animal milk use almond milk, rice milk or soymilk.

· Drink distilled water.

· Reduce saturated fats: Replace with unsaturated fats such as those found in fish, avocados, olive oil, and nuts.

· Eliminate white and all processed foods: Include whole grain breads, and brown rice.

· Consider the healing properties of dandelions and Milk Thistle.

· Protect you liver from stress: Avoid alcohol and follow instructions on all medications and over the counter drugs.

If you focus on providing healthy foods for your liver, your liver will start to respond by rebuilding and repairing itself. It will take a bit of time but the liver has miraculous powers of repair if you begin to treat it right.


By Renee Rotto