Galia Ivanova

Detox Diets are the last craze in dieting, that's why the number of people searching for detox diets is growing everyday.

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.

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Read about author's experience with 1 week detox diet at http://www.weight-loss-advisor.com/blog/2006/04/04/my-1st-day-of-the-1-week-detox-diet/

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Barney Garcia

There are several types of detox diets. There are those in which you can only eat fruits and vegetables, those in which you can only eat "clean" foods, those in which you can only drink fruit and vegetable juice, and the most extreme type where you can only drink water. You can also do specialized cleanses designed specifically for certain area of the body, for instance the liver, kidneys, blood or lungs. However, most detox diets just involve cleansing the entire body. Below, there is a sample of a seven day detox diet that you can try.

First of all, it is important that you have regular bowel movements during a detox because this will lessen the likelihood of toxins being reabsorbed by the body. A good way to make sure you will eliminate regularly is to take 2 tablespoons of ground flax seeds in lemon water in the morning, and drink lemon water throughout the day. Flax seeds provide the body with fiber and lemon water has a slightly laxative effect.

It is also important to drink enough fluids on a cleanse. You should try to include at least 8 glasses of water daily to ensure that you are allowing toxins to be flushed out.

A sample menu of a detox diet follows below. This is a diet that allows some food, since this tends to be easier for beginners. Remember, you can modify this to fit your needs and preferences.

UPON RISING

·1/2 lemon squeezed into a glass of warm water ·1 tablespoon of bentonite clay and 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseeds in a glass of water

BREAKFAST

·breakfast smoothie made with pear, rice milk and rice protein powder ·supplements: vitamin C

SNACKS

·apple juice diluted with water ·water ·vegetable broth ·supplements: milk thistle ·celery sticks and hummus

LUNCH

·chunky vegetable soup made with vegetable stock and your choice of vegetables ·steamed broccoli with sesame seeds and beets sprinkled with lemon juice on brown rice ·apple sauce ·supplements: multivitamin

SNACKS

·dandelion root tea ·carrot sticks with hummus dip ·water ·supplements: milk thistle

DINNER

·curried lentils on quinoa ·salad with mixed greens, red peppers, artichokes and sprouts drizzled with salad dressing of garlic, lemon juice and olive oil ·vegetable broth

BEFORE BED

·1 tablespoon of bentonite clay and 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseeds in a glass of water

This can be followed for up to seven days. Have fun, and remember to be careful, because while you should expect to feel sluggish and slightly ill, if you are feeling very ill or fatigued, contact your doctor.

About the Author:

Barney Garcia writes about many different topics. rapid detox and detox diets and www.fantastic-detox-diets.info

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Randa Khalil

The Detox Bath is a simple, free home hydrotherapy technique that offers a natural alternative for maintaining disease at bay by strengthening the body's inherent ability to flush out waste deposits. It uses nothing but water to help eliminate fat and toxins and maintain a healthy, fit and toned body.

Detox is the latest buzzword in the global alternative health community, and it is fast becoming mainstream. A majority of health-conscious individuals, aware of the amount of toxins the human body is now subjected to on a daily basis, are seeking means to effectively support the body's elimination process.

It's an undeniable fact that the hype and confusion surrounding the why and the how of detox are tremendous. Capitalising on our fear and bewilderment in the face of the countless toxin-related health scares, promoted by the media on a daily basis, a brand new industry is thriving. It touts detox aids in the form of herbal supplements, colon-cleansing aids, foot patches and detox diets, to mention but a few.

While some of these might be genuinely effective, they are unfortunately lost amongst the multitude of generally useless, so-called detox aids.

Louis Kuhne, a naturopath from Leipzig, Germany -hailed by his contemporaries as "a genius in the Art of Healing"- was a pioneer of the detox concept back in 1883. His doctrine of the Unity of Diseases stipulates that all diseases are caused by an accumulation of toxins in the body. He devised an ingeniously simple healing panacea based on hydrotherapy -specially featuring his famous friction sitz bath- accompanied by a wholesome, strictly vegetarian diet. Using these simple methods, Kuhne achieved phenomenal success in healing a wide spectrum of previously incurable diseases, and helping his patients recover and maintain good health.

M.K Gandhi (the Mahatma) praised Kuhne's baths in a correspondence to Nehru on January 17th, 1929 saying: "I utterly distrust doctors' reports, I strongly recommend Kuhne's bath and sun baths."

The Detox Bath is based on Louis Kuhne's friction sitz bath. It is a tool that nature generously provides us with, to help us maintain our health and body in optimal condition.

According to Kuhne, internal body heat, -generated by movement, digestion, stress or shock- pushes excess fat and toxins out to the body's periphery where they deposit and can no longer be eliminated. The Detox Bath working principle is to cool down the core area of the body, i.e. the groin and genitals by applying cold water for ten to twenty minutes daily, or at least 4 times a week (depending on your initial condition and the results you seek to achieve). This action provokes a vibration in the fascia, (interconnecting tissue covering all internal organs) which produces a roll- back effect driving excess fat and toxins back into the intestines, where they can be eliminated.

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