Although there are some disputes among healthcare professionals on the efficacy of body detox and if they bring any benefit at all, many still opt to give it a try because the benefits outweigh the risks. There are various ways to detox the body, but the use of water is among the most popular. So how can you detox your body with water?

One way that you can use water to cleanse or detox your body is with a water fast. On a water fast, water is the only thing consumed. Solids and other liquids are refrained from your diet. The duration of the fast can vary but should not exceed 5 days. Cleansing your body with water fast allows your body to expel and flush out toxins effectively, without adding to the toxin load in your body during the time, provided clean filtered water is used.

Although there are many claims that water fast is the best method to detox the body, there are some risks involved. Because no solid foods are eaten during the program, your body will go for days without important nutrients. Since many of these nutrients are required by your body for energy and various bodily functions, limited activity is recommended so as not to use up the little energy you have left. Many are encouraged not to carry on their normal daily routine or go to work while on a water fast. Once you resume eating healthy foods, at the conclusion of your water fast, you should notice an improvement in your energy levels. In fact, you may feel ‘like new.’

A water fast, although is recommended, is not right for everyone. Even where fasting is used for religious purposes, exceptions are also often made for those with health conditions. For example, if you are on medication, you should continue to do so while on a water fast. However, before making the decision to fast only on water, seek supervision from a trained healthcare professional. In some cases, a fast can do more harm than good. This is common with diabetic patients.

In addition to fasting, water can be used to aid in other detoxification methods. For example, restricting calories or processed foods laden with preservatives and additives. When limiting such food intake, you reduce the burden of toxic load in your body and so it can begin to detox more efficiently by itself. The process can be supported and stimulated with drinking plenty of water, at least 8 glasses a day. For better result, eat food that are high in fiber, and if possible, organic. When combined, water and fiber can help to improve your digestive system, ensuring toxins are expelled as our body originally intended to do.

In addition to whole body cleansing and detoxification, there is colon cleansing or irrigation with the salt water flush. Although popular, the salt water flush does have some dangers, as your body will intake and may absorb high amounts of sodium. Instructions vary depending on where you find a safe and proven formula, but most salt water flushes involve dissolving 2 teaspoons of sea salt in 1 quart of water that has a room temperature. This solution is introduced into your colon via your anus and it is recommended that you lay on your right side for about half an hour. Soon after that, you will be making multiple trips to the toilet where toxic wastes will be eliminated.

As you can see, there are a number of ways that water can be utilized to help you cleanse the body. Before starting, examine all your options carefully. For fastest results, a water fast is recommended, but please be informed of all the risks involved. Use your best judgment, listen to the warning signs your body, and speak to you medical healthcare provider.

Detox With Water By: Silvia Blach

Eating a great body detox diet
You’ll find that when you are enjoying cooking a new body detox recipe that they will enjoy eating it! The foods that you tend to eat when you are on a natural body detox are foods that you will see are quite healthy. You’ll also see that whole foods are instrumental when it comes to removing toxins from your body and that children respond very well to whole foods. Take some time to think about what foods you are feeding your child currently, and how much better their bodies could function if you removed the majority of the toxins from it!

Protein for children
Remember that growing children need protein in their diets, and you’ll soon see that protein is something that is significantly cut back on when you are looking at a body detox recipe. When you are considering these recipes, you’ll find that you do not need to prepare two, separate main meals for the children and the adults in your family, but you may wish to include something extra for the children, whether that is in the form of snacks or a simple addition to the meal in question.

Remove stress
When think about natural body detox, you probably already know how badly stress can affect your system. Too much stress in your system will leave you feeling energetic with nowhere to expend your energy, and when you think about the natural stimulants that stress will dump into your system, you can see why they would be problematic for a full body detox. When you think about children, you need to think of that effect as being magnified. Children can actively be harmed developmentally through stress, so make sure that you take the time to think about what stress might do to your child and how they spend their time.

When you are thinking about engaging in a body detox system, remember to keep your children in mind. Their health is not something that should be risked in a full body detox plan, but you’ll find that there are plenty of ways which you can help them stay healthy!

By:

John Khu is a health enthusiast and author of a new eBook titled “Body Detox Tips”. He is devoted to educate others on the benefit of body detoxification. He is also the owner of the website called www.bodydetoxtips.com which provides complete and up-to-date information.

As you look for the best product for detoxifying the system, you would come across one way of detoxification, which is known as juice detoxification. Juice detoxes are the most potential ways that allow you to remove the toxic substances from the body by using fresh fruit juices. Though this is a difficult method to follow, the results can be most beneficial. But before you begin, you must take your doctor’s consent and understand whether or not your health condition would support you during the process of detoxification.

During such a process of body cleansing, you must give up solid foods for about 3 days. If you have any health complications, it would be difficult for you to carry out such a procedure.

Juice detox recipes have become increasingly popular these days. As these diets simply comprise of fresh fruit juices, they are harmless and have no side effects at all. Also these juice detox recipes are very easy, since they are made from fruits that can be easily found. Such diets not only assure you good health, but a great body as well.

There are various juice detox recipes available for you to choose from and many variations in how you use the juices. For instance, you can include some fresh fruit juices in the diet if you really feel you need something heavy in your stomach and eat some whole fruits in between meals. But if you want to have quick results, you would have to stick to the fresh fruit juices only. You might feel a bit unusual at times as you are in the long habit of having solid foods in your stomach, but you must be capable of withstanding such situations.

A lemon juice detox, or a cayenne Pepper detox diet and Lemon Maple Syrup detox diet are the best till date in liquid diets for detoxification. These diets involve the use of fresh lemon juice, coupled with maple syrup and cayenne pepper for added effect. Not only are these diets the best sources of detoxification, but they can as well help you slim down.

People are often ignorant about the effectiveness of these fresh fruit juice detox recipes and its effects on body cleansing and detoxification. Some people also hold that it’s only through medicines and supplements that a person can actually detoxify oneself. However, it is not true. Detoxifying yourself in a natural way is the best solution. We are all aware of the goodness of fresh fruits and green leafy vegetables. We also know that they are a powerhouse of antioxidants and their juices are loaded with health nutrients that allow the proper removal of unwanted wastes and toxins from the body. Another important aspect to be considered is that these juices are readily absorbed by the body, which in turn helps in proper digestion of the essential nutrients to supply the body with essential vitamins, minerals and enzymes.

There are numerous fruits and vegetables having different properties. Though all these fruits and vegetables can be used for preparing juice detox recipes, some fruits are very effective; some others might be less efficient in showing the desired result. Therefore, the fruits must be carefully chosen. Usually lemons, berries, especially acai berry, blueberry and even strawberry (only organic strawberries) are good for detoxification.

Good juice detox recipes are tasty and the best of all, they are one of the safest ways of detoxification, since they are natural and easily work with the body to eliminate toxins from the toxin storing cells.

By: Bianca Worsley

A sugar detox simply means avoiding sugar to improve your health but because it is in so many foods many people find it hard to do. When you start to read the product labels you might be surprised to see how much hidden sugar you have every day. It is so addictive you might not realize how much you were depending on it for a quick energy or mood boost.

Why do you need to detox sugar?

Your body turns glucose that it obtains from carbohydrate into energy. Protein and fat can be used as well but they have to be turned into glucose first. The carbohydrates from a diet of whole grains, vegetables, beans and lentils are broken down slowly and the sugars are released slowly into your blood stream. These foods contain the vitamins and minerals that are needed by your cells to convert the glucose into energy.

On the other hand refined carbohydrates and sugars like white flour products, white sugar, glucose, honey, syrup, dextrose and high fructose corn syrup all get absorbed rapidly into your blood stream causing a rapid rise in blood sugar levels. Insulin is then released from you pancreas to bring it back to normal. These refined products have been stripped of all their nutrients so your cells have to rob your tissue stores of nutrients to turn the glucose into energy.

Health problems associated with refined sugar

The sudden rush of sugar into your blood stream can give you an quick energy boost but over time your body becomes depleted of nutrients, your metabolism becomes inefficient, you suffer from lack of energy and poor weight regulation.

Your blood fats increase as your liver converts excess sugar to triglycerides and bad cholesterol. Eventually this leads to a number of health problems such as diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, mood swings, yeast overgrowth, osteoporosis, premature aging, poor immunity, degenerative diseases and increased risk of cancer.

Sugar Detox

A sugar detox is well worth it if you want to lose weight, curb sweet cravings, control diabetes, improve your energy levels, and lower your risk of many health problems. But be prepared for some withdrawal symptoms such as headache, fatigue, anxiety, depression, irritability and sleep problems if your diet is high in added and hidden sugar.

How to detox sugar?

Avoid adding sugar to your food and drinks and avoid obviously sweet foods. Exclude sugar hidden in many processed foods such as ketchup, many sauces, pickles, soups, dips, peanut butter, salad dressings, frankfurters, bread by reading labels. Many fruit drinks and sodas are laden with sugar.

It may be hard at first to avoid sugar if you rely a lot on convenience foods but you can replace sugar foods with fresh fruit, vegetable sticks, salad, unsweetened yogurt, almonds, almond butter, a handful of seeds, hummus. Avoid using artificial sweeteners or buying food or drinks containing them as they are not safe either. Try Stevia, a natural sweetener, instead.

What to eat instead on a sugar detox

Buy plain unsweetened yogurt instead of sweetened and add your own fruit. Try oatmeal for breakfast and add some raisins or other fruit to sweeten instead of having a sweetened cereal. Look out for sugar free muesli. Make your own dressing with virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar or lemon juice. Replace candy bars with more healthy fruit sweetened bars. Eat fruit instead of dessert.

Reduce sugar cravings and stabilize blood sugar with a diet of whole grains, vegetables, beans and lentils or lean, free range poultry, meat and eggs. Refined carbohydrates like white flour, white rice and refined cereals have the same effect as sugar.

Sugar cravings

If you have been used to eating a diet high sugar foods you should reduce the sugars gradually. High carbohydrate foods can have the same lifting effect as alcohol and cocaine for some people. In fact alcohol is a chemical cousin to sugar. It upsets blood sugar too so avoid it when doing a sugar detox.

Nutritional support to reduce sugar cravings

If you have a serious craving for sugar you can take some nutritional supplements to restore the nutrients that you are lacking. The B vitamins, Vitamin C, chromium, and zinc can help with sugar withdrawal symptoms. Try the amino acid L-Glutamine 500mg 30 minutes before meals 3 times a day. Increase dose to 1000mg three times a day if you still get cravings after 1 week. Combine with Chromium 200 mcg three times a day with meals.

This sugar detox plan will help you will break sugar addiction and sugar cravings. As a result you should have more energy, lose weight more easily and improve your general health.

By: Sandy Halliday

If you want to find out more about detox get my FREE DETOX REPORT from The Detox Specialist
Sandy Halliday is a nutritionist, health researcher and author of a new detox ebook The Definitive Detox Diet

Detox at Home – Foods You Need / Foods You Don’t

Fruits and vegetables will be the mainstay of your detox plan. You can have up to three servings of fruit in a day and unlimited amounts of most vegetables. Do not eat bananas, potatoes or corn. If you eat peas, add them to your servings of legumes rather than counting them as vegetables. All of these are high in sugars and starch. You should get your starch from whole grains and legumes. Whenever possible, eat your food whole or put the fruit or vegetable in a juicer with skins intact. Remember to always wash your fruits and vegetables before eating them!

Twice daily, include whole grains in your diet. If you purchase bread, make sure the bread you buy is 100% whole grain. There should be no refined ingredients. Brown rice and steel-cut oatmeal are good choices for whole grains.

Learning how to detox at home is about learning how to eat a bit differnetly. Do not eat meat or any animal products such as eggs, cheese or milk while you are on your detox at home plan. There are other sources of protein you can use such as beans, raw almonds and unsalted seeds that provide protein and help to detoxify your liver.

There are only two acceptable fats and these are olive oil and canola oil. It is recommended that you have two servings of these a day. A good way to incorporate them is to add them to vinegar or lemon juice to make a dressing. Do not eat mayonnaise, margarine, bottle dressings, vegetable oil or butter.

Your detox at home plan should include a gallon of water or more a day. Water helps to flush out the toxins that are being released into your system. This is essential if you wish to get the detox done quickly and without all the nasty side effects involved.

If you are elderly, you should not detox at home. Do not put young children on this kind of plan. If you are fighting an addiction whether it is to alcohol or drugs do not detox without being under the care of professionals. If you are on prescriptions or have a health concern, talk to your doctor about whether or not a detox at home plan is right for you. Because of the nature of detox, your body will likely react with some harsh symptoms. It is always best to see your doctor before you go on a cleansing diet.

Learning how to detox at home involves an eating plan that is low in calories and as such, should not be maintained for longer than ten days. If you like the way you feel at the end of your detox, you can just add protein from salmon, tuna or chicken as well as low-fat plain yogurt with fruit you blend into it. It is inadvisable to eat more than two servings of fish a week. If you are concerned about anything during your detox at home, you should see a specialist or your family doctor.

By: Lee Dobbins

Are you tired, lacking energy and just feeling sluggish? If you want to find out how learning how to detox at home can help you regain your health and vitality, visit www.waystodetoxifythebody.com/how-to-detox-at-home and learn how countless others have regained health through gentle body detoxification.

Although there are some disputes among healthcare professionals on the efficacy of body detox and if they bring any benefit at all, many still opt to give it a try because the benefits outweigh the risks. There are various ways to detox the body, but the use of water is among the most popular. So how can you detox your body with water?

One way that you can use water to cleanse or detox your body is with a water fast. On a water fast, water is the only thing consumed. Solids and other liquids are refrained from your diet. The duration of the fast can vary but should not exceed 5 days. Cleansing your body with water fast allows your body to expel and flush out toxins effectively, without adding to the toxin load in your body during the time, provided clean filtered water is used.

Although there are many claims that water fast is the best method to detox the body, there are some risks involved. Because no solid foods are eaten during the program, your body will go for days without important nutrients. Since many of these nutrients are required by your body for energy and various bodily functions, limited activity is recommended so as not to use up the little energy you have left. Many are encouraged not to carry on their normal daily routine or go to work while on a water fast. Once you resume eating healthy foods, at the conclusion of your water fast, you should notice an improvement in your energy levels. In fact, you may feel ‘like new.’

A water fast, although is recommended, is not right for everyone. Even where fasting is used for religious purposes, exceptions are also often made for those with health conditions. For example, if you are on medication, you should continue to do so while on a water fast. However, before making the decision to fast only on water, seek supervision from a trained healthcare professional. In some cases, a fast can do more harm than good. This is common with diabetic patients.

In addition to fasting, water can be used to aid in other detoxification methods. For example, restricting calories or processed foods laden with preservatives and additives. When limiting such food intake, you reduce the burden of toxic load in your body and so it can begin to detox more efficiently by itself. The process can be supported and stimulated with drinking plenty of water, at least 8 glasses a day. For better result, eat food that are high in fiber, and if possible, organic. When combined, water and fiber can help to improve your digestive system, ensuring toxins are expelled as our body originally intended to do.

In addition to whole body cleansing and detoxification, there is colon cleansing or irrigation with the salt water flush. Although popular, the salt water flush does have some dangers, as your body will intake and may absorb high amounts of sodium. Instructions vary depending on where you find a safe and proven formula, but most salt water flushes involve dissolving 2 teaspoons of sea salt in 1 quart of water that has a room temperature. This solution is introduced into your colon via your anus and it is recommended that you lay on your right side for about half an hour. Soon after that, you will be making multiple trips to the toilet where toxic wastes will be eliminated.

As you can see, there are a number of ways that water can be utilized to help you cleanse the body. Before starting, examine all your options carefully. For fastest results, a water fast is recommended, but please be informed of all the risks involved. Use your best judgment, listen to the warning signs your body, and speak to you medical healthcare provider.

By: Silvia Blach

Detox Body Detox offers helpful information and guide on body detoxification with Water Fast. If you have been living on planet earth, you absolutely must start to detox your body now!

Eating a great body detox diet
You’ll find that when you are enjoying cooking a new body detox recipe that they will enjoy eating it! The foods that you tend to eat when you are on a natural body detox are foods that you will see are quite healthy. You’ll also see that whole foods are instrumental when it comes to removing toxins from your body and that children respond very well to whole foods. Take some time to think about what foods you are feeding your child currently, and how much better their bodies could function if you removed the majority of the toxins from it!

Protein for children
Remember that growing children need protein in their diets, and you’ll soon see that protein is something that is significantly cut back on when you are looking at a body detox recipe. When you are considering these recipes, you’ll find that you do not need to prepare two, separate main meals for the children and the adults in your family, but you may wish to include something extra for the children, whether that is in the form of snacks or a simple addition to the meal in question.

Remove stress
When think about natural body detox, you probably already know how badly stress can affect your system. Too much stress in your system will leave you feeling energetic with nowhere to expend your energy, and when you think about the natural stimulants that stress will dump into your system, you can see why they would be problematic for a full body detox. When you think about children, you need to think of that effect as being magnified. Children can actively be harmed developmentally through stress, so make sure that you take the time to think about what stress might do to your child and how they spend their time.

When you are thinking about engaging in a body detox system, remember to keep your children in mind. Their health is not something that should be risked in a full body detox plan, but you’ll find that there are plenty of ways which you can help them stay healthy!

By: John Khu is a health enthusiast and author of a new eBook titled “Body Detox Tips”. He is devoted to educate others on the benefit of body detoxification. He is also the owner of the website called www.bodydetoxtips.com which provides complete and up-to-date information.

Facts about Toxins and pollution

Foods that we trust to make us healthy like fresh fruits and vegetables often have pesticides on them that the farmers use that can cause severe problems. The fact is that even the air we breath through pollution brings toxins into our bodies.

If we don’t learn how to get rid of those harmful toxins we will experience a wide variety of health problems such as: intestinal problems, respiratory problems and colon problems. That is not all, but you get the point. That is why writing this guide came to me. This is going to be your comprehensive guide to getting the harmful toxins out of your body.

If you have ever worried about what the elements and the food you are eating is doing to your body, you will find out here. If you have ever wondered how to get rid of them and live a healthier lifestyle, you will learn it here. Don’t let the world’s filth take over your body. Use the advice in this guide to make sure that you are as healthy as you can be.

Diet and exercise are naturally the best way to stay healthy, but getting rid of harmful toxins should also be on your to do list.

What Toxins am I exposed to?

When it comes to getting rid of the harmful toxins in your body, it helps to know what you are exposed to every day as well as where these toxins are coming from and where can find them. It is amazing but you can find many of these toxins in things that you would not even think had them in there.

The list is long and end less, to get the list and how to deal with it you really need to get a hold of the detoxmanual. It is a detailed guide well worth the read and having it to reference on you shelf.

Can I detox using Diets?

Detox diets are a very popular way that people use in order to get rid of the harmful toxins that we ingest every day. These diets encourage you to eat natural foods and also encourage you to ingest lots of water and veggies which is all stuff you know is good for you. You hear about celebrities going on detox diets all of the time, and people who go into drug or alcohol rehabs are said to be detoxing as well, so you may wonder if it would be safe and ok for you to do as well.

Although detox diet theories have not actually been proven scientifically, the people who support detox diets believe that toxins don’t always leave our bodies properly when we use the bathroom. Instead, they say that these toxins hang around in our digestive, lymph, and gastrointestinal systems and even in our skin and hair.

These toxins can cause all kinds of problems, like tiredness, headaches, and nausea.

So the basic idea behind the detox diets is to temporarily give up certain kinds of foods that are thought to contain these toxins in the first place. The idea is to purify and purge the body of all the harmful stuff.

Although detox diets vary by a great deal, most of them involve some version of a fast: which is, giving up food for a couple of days and then gradually reintroducing certain foods into the diet. Many of these diets also encourage you to undergo a complete colonic irrigation, otherwise known as giving yourself enemas to clean out your colon. Of course, there are still others that recommend that you take herbal supplements to help speed the cleansing process.

Basically, to begin, detox diets are intended for short-term purposes only and should not be taken for a long period of time. You should not use a detox diet if you are trying to lose weight.

Because normal teenagers need lots of nutritional foods in their diet, like enough calories and protein to support rapid growth and development, diets that involve fasting and severe restriction of food are not a good idea for them. For teens who are highly athletic, fasting does not provide you with enough fuel to support these activities.

Also, many of the supplements that are used during detox diets are actually laxatives, which are designed to make people go to the bathroom more often. Laxative supplements are never a good idea because they can cause dehydration, mineral imbalances, and problems with the digestive system.

Finally, people who fast for days on end may drop pounds, but most of it will be water and some of it may be muscle which your body needs. Fasting for longer periods can also slow down your metabolism, making it harder to keep the weight off or to lose weight later.

Other way to detox are?

What other ‘Body Detox Programs and Diets’ are options? The Herbal body wrap produces both therapeutic and cosmetic benefits by cleansing the body of toxins and reducing inches off of your body. Body wraps are great for anyone who wants to improve their body’s tone and tighten the look and texture of their skin, including people with loose skin from weight loss or pregnancy. Also those people that suffer through joint pain and inflammation will benefit from the therapeutic effects of body wraps.

A simple home made body wrap can be made with a mixture of a clay and some natural sea salt. To create the simple wrap you can add more complex ingredients such as herbs and up to 2 tablespoons of an essential oil. Below is a real recipe of a body wrap that is popular among spas.

When you decide to have a body wrap session, there are a few things that you should do to make sure that the experience is a great one. Below are some tips to ensure that have the best experience possible.

Body wraps are very messy so try and remember to keep the experience in the bath tub.
It can also be very boring laying in the tub and staring at the ceiling for 45 minutes so if you want to make the experience more interesting, you can listen to your favorite music on a walkman or bring in a portable television.

Take a warm shower before applying the wrap to open the pores.

Drink lots of water both before and after your wrap to help flush out all of the toxins better.

You can cover yourself with an inexpensive foil thermal blanket to help you to keep warm.

Try to avoid caffeine, sugar, fried fatty foods, soda drinks and alcohol for the next 48 hours.

Another simple way to draw many of the daily harmful toxins out of the body is to take a hot epsom salt bath. Hot water draws toxins out of the body and brings it to the skin’s surface, and while the water cools it pulls toxins from the skin. When magnesium sulfate (epsom salt) is absorbed through the skin in a bath, it helps to draw toxins from the body, keep down any swelling you have and relax muscles.

Epsom salts get their name from the mineral rich waters of Epsom, England. For some reason I felt like I had to tell you that. Below os the actual Epsom salt bath recipe.

herbal detox pills.

Whole foods also contain other substances that are important for good health and a healthy detox program. Fresh fruits and vegetables, for example, contain naturally occurring food substances called phytochemicals, which might just help protect you against cancer, heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure that you ingest into your system everyday as mentioned in the first section.

Many of them are also good sources of the antioxidants that you need which slow down your body’s oxidation, which is a natural process that can leads to cell and tissue damage. If you depend on supplements rather than eating actual foods, you miss the potential benefits of these substances. That is why you must exercise caution when choosing pills as a your detox formula.

Many people don’t get all of the nutrients they need from their diet alone because they either can’t or don’t eat enough foods or they simply don’t eat the right combination of healthy foods. For some people, the use of multivitamins and mineral supplements as a detox program can provide vitamins and minerals that their diets often don’t. Pregnant women and seniors have different nutritional needs and may also benefit from using a supplement with their diet.

Bobby Ryatt: To get a more detailed insight into the programs and methods to rid your body of these toxing go to www.detoxmanual.com and get the ebook. You can visit my website on general issues www.thealternativecures.com

By: Bobby Ryatt

If you want to detoxify your internal system thoroughly, and you start doing some research work, you’ll find that with the abundant availability of cleansing and detox products, it can be very difficult for you to decide which would be the best of the lot.

As you look for the best product for detoxifying the system, you would come across one way of detoxification, which is known as juice detoxification. Juice detoxes are the most potential ways that allow you to remove the toxic substances from the body by using fresh fruit juices. Though this is a difficult method to follow, the results can be most beneficial. But before you begin, you must take your doctor’s consent and understand whether or not your health condition would support you during the process of detoxification.

During such a process of body cleansing, you must give up solid foods for about 3 days. If you have any health complications, it would be difficult for you to carry out such a procedure.

Juice detox recipes have become increasingly popular these days. As these diets simply comprise of fresh fruit juices, they are harmless and have no side effects at all. Also these juice detox recipes are very easy, since they are made from fruits that can be easily found. Such diets not only assure you good health, but a great body as well.

There are various juice detox recipes available for you to choose from and many variations in how you use the juices. For instance, you can include some fresh fruit juices in the diet if you really feel you need something heavy in your stomach and eat some whole fruits in between meals. But if you want to have quick results, you would have to stick to the fresh fruit juices only. You might feel a bit unusual at times as you are in the long habit of having solid foods in your stomach, but you must be capable of withstanding such situations.

A lemon juice detox, or a cayenne Pepper detox diet and Lemon Maple Syrup detox diet are the best till date in liquid diets for detoxification. These diets involve the use of fresh lemon juice, coupled with maple syrup and cayenne pepper for added effect. Not only are these diets the best sources of detoxification, but they can as well help you slim down.

People are often ignorant about the effectiveness of these fresh fruit juice detox recipes and its effects on body cleansing and detoxification. Some people also hold that it’s only through medicines and supplements that a person can actually detoxify oneself. However, it is not true. Detoxifying yourself in a natural way is the best solution. We are all aware of the goodness of fresh fruits and green leafy vegetables. We also know that they are a powerhouse of antioxidants and their juices are loaded with health nutrients that allow the proper removal of unwanted wastes and toxins from the body. Another important aspect to be considered is that these juices are readily absorbed by the body, which in turn helps in proper digestion of the essential nutrients to supply the body with essential vitamins, minerals and enzymes.

There are numerous fruits and vegetables having different properties. Though all these fruits and vegetables can be used for preparing juice detox recipes, some fruits are very effective; some others might be less efficient in showing the desired result. Therefore, the fruits must be carefully chosen. Usually lemons, berries, especially acai berry, blueberry and even strawberry (only organic strawberries) are good for detoxification.

Good juice detox recipes are tasty and the best of all, they are one of the safest ways of detoxification, since they are natural and easily work with the body to eliminate toxins from the toxin storing cells.

By: Bianca Worsley

A sugar detox simply means avoiding sugar to improve your health but because it is in so many foods many people find it hard to do. When you start to read the product labels you might be surprised to see how much hidden sugar you have every day. It is so addictive you might not realize how much you were depending on it for a quick energy or mood boost.

Why do you need to detox sugar?

Your body turns glucose that it obtains from carbohydrate into energy. Protein and fat can be used as well but they have to be turned into glucose first. The carbohydrates from a diet of whole grains, vegetables, beans and lentils are broken down slowly and the sugars are released slowly into your blood stream. These foods contain the vitamins and minerals that are needed by your cells to convert the glucose into energy.

On the other hand refined carbohydrates and sugars like white flour products, white sugar, glucose, honey, syrup, dextrose and high fructose corn syrup all get absorbed rapidly into your blood stream causing a rapid rise in blood sugar levels. Insulin is then released from you pancreas to bring it back to normal. These refined products have been stripped of all their nutrients so your cells have to rob your tissue stores of nutrients to turn the glucose into energy.

Health problems associated with refined sugar

The sudden rush of sugar into your blood stream can give you an quick energy boost but over time your body becomes depleted of nutrients, your metabolism becomes inefficient, you suffer from lack of energy and poor weight regulation.

Your blood fats increase as your liver converts excess sugar to triglycerides and bad cholesterol. Eventually this leads to a number of health problems such as diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, mood swings, yeast overgrowth, osteoporosis, premature aging, poor immunity, degenerative diseases and increased risk of cancer.

Sugar Detox

A sugar detox is well worth it if you want to lose weight, curb sweet cravings, control diabetes, improve your energy levels, and lower your risk of many health problems. But be prepared for some withdrawal symptoms such as headache, fatigue, anxiety, depression, irritability and sleep problems if your diet is high in added and hidden sugar.

How to detox sugar?

Avoid adding sugar to your food and drinks and avoid obviously sweet foods. Exclude sugar hidden in many processed foods such as ketchup, many sauces, pickles, soups, dips, peanut butter, salad dressings, frankfurters, bread by reading labels. Many fruit drinks and sodas are laden with sugar.

It may be hard at first to avoid sugar if you rely a lot on convenience foods but you can replace sugar foods with fresh fruit, vegetable sticks, salad, unsweetened yogurt, almonds, almond butter, a handful of seeds, hummus. Avoid using artificial sweeteners or buying food or drinks containing them as they are not safe either. Try Stevia, a natural sweetener, instead.

What to eat instead on a sugar detox

Buy plain unsweetened yogurt instead of sweetened and add your own fruit. Try oatmeal for breakfast and add some raisins or other fruit to sweeten instead of having a sweetened cereal. Look out for sugar free muesli. Make your own dressing with virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar or lemon juice. Replace candy bars with more healthy fruit sweetened bars. Eat fruit instead of dessert.

Reduce sugar cravings and stabilize blood sugar with a diet of whole grains, vegetables, beans and lentils or lean, free range poultry, meat and eggs. Refined carbohydrates like white flour, white rice and refined cereals have the same effect as sugar.

Sugar cravings

If you have been used to eating a diet high sugar foods you should reduce the sugars gradually. High carbohydrate foods can have the same lifting effect as alcohol and cocaine for some people. In fact alcohol is a chemical cousin to sugar. It upsets blood sugar too so avoid it when doing a sugar detox.

Nutritional support to reduce sugar cravings

If you have a serious craving for sugar you can take some nutritional supplements to restore the nutrients that you are lacking. The B vitamins, Vitamin C, chromium, and zinc can help with sugar withdrawal symptoms. Try the amino acid L-Glutamine 500mg 30 minutes before meals 3 times a day. Increase dose to 1000mg three times a day if you still get cravings after 1 week. Combine with Chromium 200 mcg three times a day with meals.

This sugar detox plan will help you will break sugar addiction and sugar cravings. As a result you should have more energy, lose weight more easily and improve your general health.

By: Sandy Halliday

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Sandy Halliday is a nutritionist, health researcher and author of a new detox ebook The Definitive Detox Diet