Benefits and Risks of Eating Chicken Meat: What You Need to Know from Healthline

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2024-04-14 23:30:10

Al-Marsad newspaper: The “Healthline” medical portal revealed the most important benefits of eating chicken meat, and also warned against eating some of its parts.

Benefits of chicken meat

Among these benefits: Chicken contains proteins. Chicken meat helps provide the body with fats, carbohydrates, and calcium, and chicken is one of the foods that contributes to supplying the body with phosphorus, iron, and carotene.

It also contains vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, vitamin E and other nutrients, strengthens the immune system, improves physical fitness, stimulates blood vessels and prevents blood clotting.

Warning against eating parts of it

The Healthline portal stated that you should avoid eating small parts of chicken, as not all parts of chicken are edible, because they may cause cancer. The prohibited parts of chicken are the following items:

1- Chicken lung: It contains many parasites and bacteria, which cannot be eliminated even by heat treatment, due to its resistance to high temperatures.

2- Chicken neck: It contains lymph nodes that contain toxins and bacteria, and frequent consumption of chicken neck may increase the risk of cancer.

3- Chicken head: Some substances hazardous to human health can accumulate in the chicken head.

4- Chicken intestines: There are various types of bacteria and food residues in chicken intestines, which cannot always be completely removed, and excessive consumption of them leads to an increase in the percentage of fats in the blood.

5- Chicken skin: There is practically nothing useful in chicken skin, as it is rich in fats, and there are also many parasites and bacteria on its surface.

6- Chicken legs: Eating too much chicken legs may lead to weight gain. In addition, many hormones remain in chicken feet, which if ingested can be harmful to health.

7- Chicken butt: It is the most dangerous part that should be avoided in chicken, because it contains a huge amount of bacteria and toxins that negatively affect their entry into the human body.

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