Fresh fruit and vegetable juices provide an abundance of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytochemicals and other essential substances essential to cleansing and healing the body. The main benefit of juicing for detox is that it is a way of getting enough nutrients into your body to counteract acidity and force out toxins.

Juicing is a way of getting in many more nutrients than you could by eating the whole fruit or vegetable. The nutrients are released from the produce leaving the indigestible fiber behind. Juices need no digestion so are are quickly absorbed into your body. Just think how long would it take to munch your way through 4 large carrots or a bag of apples? Juicing them
extracts many nutrients which can be in your body in a matter of minutes.

What about the lack of fiber?

You may see arguments against juicing for detox because it leaves the pulp or fiber behind. After all fiber has many important functions – providing roughage and bulk that prevents constipation, feeding the good bowel bacteria, keeping you feeling fuller for longer and slowing down the release of glucose into the body keeping your blood glucose level stable are just a few.

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It’s one of the new fads doing the rounds in the health circuit – detoxification is supposed to be something you do to cleanse your body and organs like your liver and kidney. The food we eat is just pure junk, and this in turn turns our bodies into trash cans that are filled with toxic chemicals and waste. The cause of most of our ills and diseases can be traced to our lifestyle, more specifically, to the food we eat. If we wish to prevent ill health from dogging us, we need to detoxify our bodies from time to time. But most people shy away from this routine because they think it costs a ton of money. In fact, you can detox even if you’re a budget by following the below adages:

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You might be following a detox diet but unless you do some exercise you will not be getting the best from your efforts.Exercise encourages the toxins to move out of the tissues, into the lymph and blood circulation so they can be taken to the liver to be changed into forms that can more easily be detoxed. Mini trampoline exercises are just the thing.

If you haven’t got the energy to exercise, can’t get to the gym, feel too toxic or sick, feel too embarrassed, too heavy or too old then rebounding on a mini trampoline is the answer. The gentle bouncing motion cleanses every cell in your body.

You are using the forces of gravity, acceleration and deceleration to strengthen every cell in your body. Mini trampoline exercises or rebounding as it is also known is considered to be one of the best forms of exercise to activate the lymphatic system. A study performed by NASA found that rebounding is 68% more efficient and effective than jogging.

What is the lymphatic system?

To put it simply the lymph system is a network of tubes and organs that takes wastes and toxins away from every cell in your body and carries nutrients to them so they can function efficiently.  This hidden power of the lymph system is wideley overlooked and neglected.

It produces the cells of your immune system which circulate around your body in the 6 – 10 liters of lymph fluid. It works as a transport system and filter, removing bacteria, microorganisms and dead cells. So you can see why it’s so important.

The lymph system includes the lymph nodes, the bone marrow, tonsils, appendix, spleen, thymus gland, and areas in the bowel called Peyer’s patches. Unlike the blood circulation system that is pumped around by your heart the lymph system has no pump. The lymph vessels run alongside your veins and arteries and rely on body movement for the flow through the lymph channels.

Your liver is loaded with lymphatic vessels, which transport fats and proteins as well as carting off toxic waste. The lymph fluid can become thickened and clogged up with toxins if you don’t drink enough fluid or exercise to keep it moving. An estimated 90% of modern day illnesses and symptoms of poor health are related to poor lymphatic function.

How do Mini Trampoline exercises work?

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You have probably heard many times before that cranberry juice is a good natural remedy for cystitis but you might be wondering how to detox using cranberry juice.

Cranberries are full of many nutrients such as Vitamins C, and K, manganese, several powerful antioxidants and fiber. They also contain a substance called Arbutin which acts as a powerful diuretic that helps draw out toxins.

You can rid the lymphatic system, the bowels and the kidneys of various kinds of harmful toxins with the help of a cranberry juice detox.  In fact Louise Gittleman includes cranberry juice in her recipe for the “miracle juice” that she recommends on her one day detox.  Of course, you can’t detox in just one day.

There are claims being made on the internet that cranberry juice can be used to detox recreational drugs like marijuana before a drug test but there is absolutely no scientific evidence that it can do this.  A good detox diet with supplement support will help you detox drug residues but it will take more than cranberry juice to do it.

Well let’s get on with how to detox using cranberry juice:

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The 2nd International Green Smoothie Day is 15th August 2009 . Why not join in the fun? If you are looking to turn your health around with a detox diet then there’s no better way to start than with the 2nd Annual Green Smoothie Day. I can hardly believe that a year has flown by since the first one. If you missed it last year then here’s your chance to join thousands or other health seekers around the world for this years event.

The Raw Divas have dreamed up all sorts of prizes and fun to make this the greatest Green Smoothie Celebration ever. (One of the prizes is a superb Blentec Blender).  Everyone likes green smoothies. They are great for detox and soooo easy to make. All you need is some fresh fruit and some green leaves and a half decent blender and you’re away.

Green means clean

I’m sure you already know that green foods are really powerful cleansers and detoxifiers and blending them with fruit is a real yummy way of eating them. After all there is a limit to how many lettuce leaves you can eat in a day!

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I couldn’t help notice the numerous reports that Gwyneth Paltrow has been on a three week summer detox diet to shed a few pounds that she gained during a “relax and enjoy life phase”. One report said “she feels pure after surviving for three weeks on pumpkin seeds and coconut water”  Well, that was a new one on me so I thought I should investigate.

As it turned out that was a journalist creating a sensational headline. The detox diet did include pumpkin seeds on one day and a glass of coconut water (not milk) every day but she had much more food than that!

The diet has been criticized by some nutritionists as being dangerous and unhealthy as the detractors of detox always do but the diet includes meals of chicken and fish on alternate days. The coconut water (from green young green coconuts)  contains some vitamins and minerals and there is a fruit and nut smoothie every day too and vegetables . Hardly dangerous and unhealthy.

Gwyneth is glowing and looking great. She says that the plan allowed her to work and exercise regularly, something she could not do on a liquid-only detox. She has done the Master Cleanse also known as the Lemonade Diet previously.

Cardiologist turned detox specialist

The detox diet was based on one devised by Dr Alejandro Junger who although a cardiologist has become a bit of a detox specialist. He, like many of us who got into detox because of health problems, started to suffer with irritable bowel and depression after a a drastic change in diet and lifestyle when he moved from his native Uruguay to New York City.

Astonished by the fantastic changes in a friend who visited a detox retreat Junger committed to a two week juice fast with colonic irrigation and cured his irritable bowel and depression and lost 15 pound in weight and never looked back.

Detox chemicals to lose weight

Although many celebrities go on detox diets to lose weight the main purpose of a detox diet is of course to eliminate toxins. Chemical toxins can and do interfere with how the weight control system works and many people who have struggled with their weight for years have had success when they cleansed their bodies of chemical toxins.

Chemical pollutants and not obesity itself are even being blamed for the development of diabetes.  Several studies have linked environmental  chemicals with the increase in diabetes.  Chemical toxins have been linked to Parkinson’s disease too.

Summer Detox

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I could not believe my eyes when I saw the newspaper headlines that claimed that organic food was no healthier than ordinary food. If that is so then why is organic food recommended on a detox diet?

The Food Standards agency has sent shock waves through the organic food movement with the publication of the report done by the The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine that states that organic food is no healthier than mass produced, chemically laden and intensively farmed produce. I think you will agree that this defies anyone’s logic.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is the UK Government’s watchdog created in 2000 to reputedly protect the Nation’s health. How can they be saying this when it’s own published research clearly shows that organic food is far better than conventionally grown produce?

Many studies have been totally ignored

Critics point out that the research was in fact a review of only 55 previous studies out of more than 50,000 which left out many important studies. Other research, some funded by the EU, being done by other organizations is being totally ignored.

The FSA even states on its website that “Eating organic food is one way to reduce consumption of pesticide residues and additives” and that of course is why it’s best to eat organic on a detox diet. The aim of a detox diet is to reduce the chemical toxins in the body not add to them. But they go on to say that current scientific evidence does not support the view that organic food it is more nutritious.

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