You may have heard about toxins, detoxification, cleansing, purifying – they are all related to detox diets.
Toxins are harmful chemicals affecting your body. They are all around you (in your food, water, air) and inside you (as waste products of metabolism). Your body eliminates most toxins and the rest are stored within body fat.
These stored toxins combined with stress can affect your health in very unpleasant ways:
- weight gain
- headaches
- feelings of fatigue and weakness
- heartburn
- sore muscles and skin
- joint pains
These symptoms will fade when you start detox. Well, you may feel some discomfort in the very first days, but that is a normal body reaction.
You may feel headache or sore muscles, but that is because the toxins are released faster then your body can eliminate them. These symptoms will not occur again if you detox regularly.
Detox and Weight Loss
Detoxification is the process of releasing and expelling the stored toxins through the elimination organs of your body - the intestines, liver, lungs, kidneys and skin.
Detox Diets are dietary nutritious plans that use detoxification, which helps you lose weight by cleansing out your body and improving your metabolism.
Detox and Disease Prevention
Detox Diets are recommended for improving resistance to disease, mental state, digestion, strengthens the organs involved in detox.
Detox Diets can help prevent serious diseases such as cancer, ADD, ADHD, chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple chemical sensitivities, as well as treat heart disease, fibromyalgia, autoimmune disease.
Detox Foods
Detox Diets recommend consumption of foods that are beneficial for your health and essential to weight loss - organic foods, fruits and vegetables.
You should drink purified water and cut back on processed foods, as well as give up alcohol and smoking.
You should know…
Detox Diets are quite restrictive and once you start a detox diet, you should follow it strictly. Detox Diets are safe, but you should consult your doctor before starting.
Types of Detox Diets
+ Fasting - drinking only water, juices or broths, or eating one kind of food for a certain period of time. Your body starts burning fat for energy.
+ Nutritional supplements – intake of nutritious powders, vitamins and packaged protein snacks.
+ Hydrotherapy - detoxifying through your skin pores by taking special baths.
+ Specific detox diets - last between 7 and 30 days; there are quick detox diets for one and three days, and long detox diets for 8 weeks.
