Planning a Safe Detox and Foods For Detox

In the cities that we lived, we could have been living with pollution knowingly or unknowingly. Our normal daily routine could be using municipalized water that had been treated and smelled of chlorine, walking down that stretch of road crowded with cars at every turn, having that rich, processed and junk food daily, indulging with a cigarette every hour, more coffee in the afternoon, a little alcohol on some nights and off to bed for that few hours of sleep.

For some of us, our contact with sport is being a spectator cheering our favorite team or in front of the television. A much sedate life for many years indeed and if you yearn for a more active and more energetic life, detoxing should be on your card next.

A clear picture to bear in mind is that our body is capable of detoxing itself naturally by having the correct diet.

Detoxing should be planned and not taken lightly. Care should be taken to follow a safe detoxing diet and with light activities but detoxing should not be deemed as dangerous.

In fact, detoxing is rather rewarding, practice with common sense and together with moderation in place. This is important as you body could be releasing toxins and heavy metal and you could feel something different.

Detoxing could caused some changes to your body biologically and you could experienced some side-effects, depending on the level of toxicity that you are before.

To fast or not to fast?

Fasting during detoxing had became a much debated subject. While fasting is good for not adding more toxins into your body, it was mired with controversies that your body could crave for anything that it can get within and make use of it. Moreover, your liver is experiencing a release of toxins and could be overwhelmed by the "vacuum" or lightness of the state now.

The safe detox guide

The key to a safe detox plan is moderation in diet. In addition, a sensible diet and healthy lifestyle to ensure this detox plan works.

First of all, this sensible diet is not difficult to attain but could be difficult to implement through lack of self discipline.

To start with, a sensible diet to facilitate detoxing is the type of food for our meals. Our meals must never included any processed food as most processed food, if not all, contained some kind of preservatives, coloring, food flavorings, food enhancers and a high level of salt and sugar. Junk food is also strictly not recommended as most of these junk food are fried which inevitably tends to be oily.

During detoxing, eating whole food and plenty of fruits and vegetables is ideal. Organic food is highly advocated as it is generally void of pesticide which became toxins in our body.

Organic produce

Organic produce may be more expensive but it is worth the money, after all, you would want to do something to facilitate your detox plan. An alternative is remove the skins of vegetables like potato and carrot so as to reduce the level of pesticide in your cooking. For leafy vegetable, do go for organic. Likewise for fruits, this could save you some money.

Most of the vegetables and fruits could be found at your local store. Vegetables like garlic, onions, broccoli and kale are recommended just before going for a detox diet.

Fruits are also recommended during detoxing but as some fruits can contain a level of sugar, try to have fruits in the early part of the day, between your breakfast and lunch, that is, two or three hours before or after any other meals. When having fruit for detoxification purposes, try to eat the fruits fresh and not with any other food. Fruits including melons, berries, citrus fruits, bananas, apples and nectarines are good for detoxing.

By doing so, your body could start to experience a "mini" purging of toxins. To aid this, you must drink plenty of water. Beverages like coffee and tea are to be avoided.

Supporting your detox plan

An important area is to ensure that you take some herbs that support detoxification and are healthy for your liver, lungs and kidneys.

Artichokes, beets, dandelion and milk thistle are highly recommended during detoxification. Other herbs include parsley, turmeric, chamomile, marshmallow, slippery elm, goldenseal and ginger. Onions and cauliflower are also good in detoxify the liver. The humble parsley, often used as a garnish, actually is good for detoxing as parsley is a powerful tonic that flushes the kidneys.

As your liver and other organs are undergoing cleansing process, it is important to include amino acids and protein in your diet so as to help the body organs to function well. It is advisable to include some nuts and vitamin supplements to replace the vitamins and minerals your body needed.

The humble garlic

Garlic, also known as king of herbs, had been used as a health food is a potent blood cleanser which aids in the detoxification process. The best way to eat gat garlic is to have it raw or easily mash it up, wait for 10 minutes for the active chemicals to activate before consumption.

Once you had gone through a detox plan, it is advisable to have it periodically.

The day after

The next thing is not to indulge yourself with unhealthy food after a detox. Eating healthy in moderation is the next best idea to keep your body in optimum condition. Detoxing give you a good feeling in the short term and sensible and healthy diet had long term benefits.

Water is very important after detox too. Most supplied water are not adequately filter for body in the long run so it is good to invest in a good drinking water filtration system. A good filtration system removes much chemical and chlorine so as to reduce the intake of toxins by drinking or use as cooking.

Patrick Sinim F.

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