More poisonous than arsenic! Why is this food classified as a strong carcinogen still eaten by many

Why is this food classified as a strong carcinogen still eaten by many elderly people? 

In daily life, many people (especially the elderly) are not only reluctant to throw away the food after they find it moldy. In fact, eating moldy food will pose a great threat to human health. I believe many people I have seen moldy hair on peanuts, corn, and other foods. These hairs of different colors are the mycelia of aflatoxin. Once you eat food containing aflatoxin, it can cause serious consequences. Learn today Knowledge about aflatoxin.

Aflatoxin is a natural carcinogen, and it is a thorough "bad thing". It exists in foods such as peanuts and corn. It multiplies in large quantities when it gets wet. The amount will cause serious harm to the human body. Let's look at the harm of aflatoxin to human body.

1.Aflatoxin can cause liver damage

Aflatoxin is more toxic than normal pesticides and is 68 times more arsenic. Once ingested in excess, aflatoxin can cause acute liver failure. After aflatoxin enters the body, it will destroy the activity of liver cells, interfere with the normal work of liver cells, cause the body to have symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding. Due to the massive damage of liver cells, it can also cause acute hepatitis, liver ascites, liver Conditions such as failure can endanger patients' lives at any time.

2. Chronic poisoning

If you often take a small amount of aflatoxin, gradually increasing the concentration of aflatoxin in the human body will cause chronic poisoning, gastrointestinal diseases such as gastric ulcer bleeding, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and cardiac hypertrophy. Cardiac diseases such as abnormalities, such as decreased vascular elasticity and increased blood viscosity, will cause serious damage to all important tissues and organs of the human body, and eventually cause multiple organ failures throughout the body, bringing a lot of pain to patients.

Carcinogenic

Aflatoxin has been proven to be one of the most carcinogenic substances by modern medicine. Frequent intake of aflatoxin can cause DNA mutations and can induce malignant diseases such as liver cancer and stomach cancer. Many countries and regions in the world are vulnerable to wet food Mold, excessive levels of aflatoxin in food, can lead to large-scale outbreaks of liver cancer, and the occurrence of aflatoxin in the entire village has also occurred in India. The toxicity of aflatoxin is alarming.

The frightening aspect of aflatoxin is that it is very common in daily life. They have their traces on moldy fruits and foods. Therefore, the general public is reminded not to eat moldy and hairy foods, otherwise it will cause health problems. Unpredictable harm. it is too much to pay for liver failure caused by eating moldy food.