Dietary Ways to Reduce the Dangers of Smoking

　　If you can't quit smoking completely, and if you are inevitably exposed to secondhand smoke, you can at least minimize the harm it does to your body through diet.

　　Smoking poison 1: Decreased content of selenium that prevents cancer

　　Countermeasure: Eat foods rich in selenium

　　Research shows that smoking can lead to low levels of selenium in human blood, and selenium is an indispensable trace element for cancer prevention. Therefore, smokers should often supplement foods rich in selenium, such as animal liver, seaweed, shrimp, and beans. Followed by mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, millet, white fungus, garlic, day lily, sesame, cereals, wheat, corn, etc.

　　Tobacco poison 2: Excessive oxidizing substances

　　Countermeasure: Supplement vitamins

　　Smoking will quickly deplete the antioxidants and vitamins stored in your body, and the oxidative substances in your body will increase accordingly. If not replenished in time, it will cause peroxidation. Therefore, smokers especially need to supplement antioxidant vitamins, such as? -Carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, etc., especially vitamin C, which is a water-soluble vitamin also known as "ascorbic acid", can effectively avoid peroxidation and reduce smokers' urge to smoke. In order to supplement these vitamins in daily life, you should eat more fruits and vegetables and less meat to create an alkaline physiological environment in the human body. Raw carrots and cucumbers, in particular, are rich in antioxidant vitamins. At the same time, you should also pay attention to appropriate supplements of vitamin B, calcium and magnesium, which can help relieve stress and reduce anxiety and insomnia during the smoking cessation process.