In an environment full of different kinds of pollutions, how can you prevent toxins from entering into your body and becoming a future source of diseases? The following kinds of food can help do well environmental protection inside your body.

Mung bean: Traditional medicine believes that mung bean, cold in property and sweet in flavor, is able to detoxify various toxins of metals and stones, white arsenics and vegetations, and able to speed up the metabolism of toxic substances inside the body. Therefore, people with regular exposure to lead, arsenics, cadmiums, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and other toxic substances shall in their daily diet have more mung bean soup, mung bean porridge, mung bean sprouts, and so on.

Pig Blood: Traditional medicine believes that pig blood is helpful in purging intestines, relaxing bowels and removing intestinal scales. Modern medicine has confirmed that plasma protein in pig blood can, after decomposition by gastric acid inside the human body, produce a substance for detoxification and intestinal purge. This substance can react with intrusive dust and harmful metal particles inside the body and take them out of the body through alimentary canals.

Kelp: Traditional medicine holds that kelp is cold in property and salty in taste, with effectiveness in softening and resolving hard mass, in reducing fever and inducing diuresis, and in anti-hypertension and defatting. Modern medical researches show that the kelp alginic acid can slow down the adoption of radioactive elements strontium by intestines and take the radioactive elements out of the body. Therefore, kelp plays a role in the prevention of leukemia and in the discharge of intrusive heavy metal elements inside the body.

Tea: Modern medicine believes that tea, with indispensable elements of tea polyphenols, polysaccharides and vitamin C, could accelerate the excretion of toxic substances inside the body.

Fig: Rich in a variety of organic acids and enzymes, fig is effective in fever reduction and intestinal moisturizing, in digestion promotion and in liver protection and detoxification. In recent years, fig has been found to be able to resist sulfur dioxide, sulfur trioxide, hydrogen chloride and benzene, and other toxic substances.

Carrot: carrot is not only rich in carotene, but also contains a lot of pectin. This combination of pectin with mercury can effectively reduce the mercury ions concentration in the blood plasma and accelerate the excretion of mercury ions inside the body. Therefore, carrot plays a critical role in the prevention of mercury poisoning.