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5 LIVER-LOVING FOODS

t’s the liver’s job to detoxify contaminants including carcinogenic substances in our blood-stream so they can be safely eliminated from the body. The liver plays an important role in digestion, metabolising fats, proteins and carbohydrates. It also helps regulate healthy cholesterol levels by making cholesterol and delivering it to cells around the body that need it, and removing cholesterol by turning it into bile salts to be eliminated via the bowels.The liver stores certain important nutrients (vitamins A, D, E,

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