By James Steele
Much has been written about the
detox diet (detoxification) over the decades. It seems the past ten years,
roughly, have seen an explosion of these diets. The basic principle is the same
across all of them, and that is to use foods (or liquids) to help your body get
rid of toxins. First, we must caution you and suggest you talk to your doctor
before embarking on any kind of detox diet. Many people turn to this overall
approach when they want to lose weight. While it is possible to achieve that,
we feel the loss will be temporary for a variety of reasons. We will talk more
about the detox diet in the rest of this article.
There are two basic approaches with
many types of detox diets. First, the diet calls for avoiding foods that are
known to introduce toxins in your body. Naturally, that is probably something
every person should do, anyway. Secondly, the particular diet will recommend
you eat foods, or drink liquids, that support the body's ability to process and
eliminate toxins. There is a fairly large variety of detox diets, and
frequently they also require that your intake of calories is reduced, as well.
You will find some that have you eat much smaller portions or even go on liquid
fasting such as with juices, only.
What you may experience as a result
is more energy, better digestion, stronger immune functions, decreased or
elimination of bloating plus other benefits. People are beginning to become
more educated on the ways of a healthy body, and they are learning the
importance of an alkaline body. The purpose of many cleansing diets is to
return the pH balance of the body back to alkaline. Many cleansing diets are
composed of only liquids, of which water is the most important, but also herbal
teas, ginger teas, and lemon water are included. When you seek help with
natural health, you will find a long list of herbal detox remedies. There are
many reliable reference guides that can give you the necessary information
about herbal teas. Interestingly, what you will find is very many herbal
preparations contain detox action.
The liver is one of the primary
organs involved with detoxification. It is important to keep the liver
functioning at high levels, and this can happen with herbal liver cleanses.
Chlorella, Burdock root, Milk Thistle and quite a few others are known to have
this effect. You cannot live without your liver, so it is important to keep it
healthy, because it has many functions, some that are needed for detoxing the
body. Many organs in the body are involved in keeping it detoxed, and one that
isn't always thought about is the skin. That is why simply brushing your skin
each day or several times a week will help. Dry brushing helps remove dead skin
cells, thus keeping the skin pores open and stimulating blood flow.
Detoxifying diets have been around
for many centuries in all types and in all countries. This is admittedly an
area of alternative medicine, or approaches, that has caused some controversy
with established Western medicine. Be positive that should you decide to search
in this area that you do it safely and slowly.
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