How fruit and veg affect your liver

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'Changing your diet can't reverse cirrhosis, but it can improve your underlying health. A poor diet exacerbates liver disease because heavy drinkers often have diets lacking in B vitamins (which affect your central nervous system and the body's ability to release energy from carbohydrates) and magnesium, calcium and phosphate, which affect the cardiovascular and skeletal systems. Ask your GP for a blood test, as one of the big deficiencies, thiamin (or B1), often needs injections to restore nutritional health. You don't need supplements, just a balanced diet of carbohydrate, protein and fat, plus five fruit and veg a day, and as little processed and junk food as possible.'
Dietitian Jacqui Lowdon, spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association

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Richard Angus, about 1 year

Dear Sir/Madam. I found the article very useful althiugh I am not a heavy drinker I do go near the mens limits at various times of the year. I think this information should be widely distributed,surely this would save lives and money used by the Health service.

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