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Is Healthy Juice Bad For Detox?

The headline of an article in the Daily Mail yesterday read “The healthy juice with 22 teaspoons of sugar”  The journalist quotes researchers who warned ” Drinks regarded as healthy often contain far more sugar than we realize and can add up to 450 calories a day to our diet”.

The trouble with the statement is that they are equating refined sugar that has been added to some drinks with fructose, a sugar that ocurrs naturally in fruit. The article makes it sound as though juicing is bad for you so what about juice detox?

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Posted by Sandy Halliday - April 18, 2012 at 3:28 pm

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Effective Juice Cleansing For Weight Loss

Although many people do juice cleansing for weight loss that is not it’s prime purpose. The main aim of  juice cleansing or juice fasting is to cleanse the body of toxins. Weight loss is often a beneficial side effect if you want to shed some extra pounds.

Fasting has been used extensively throughout history for healing disease. Thousands of people all over the world fast regularly not because they want to cure any particular disease but because they consider it an effective way to cleanse the body.

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Posted by Sandy Halliday - July 20, 2011 at 2:07 pm

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What essential kitchen equipment do I need for my detox diet?

People often ask what kitchen equipment they really need before going on a detox diet. Here is my top 5 list.  If you don’t have any of them yet it can involve a big outlay so you may need to prioritize and invest in what you feel is the most important for you at the moment.

1. A Good Water Filter

It’s best not to drink tap water if you are on a detox diet or not. Leaving aside the dangers of chlorine and fluoride your tap water is likely polluted with prescription drugs.

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Posted by Sandy Halliday - December 8, 2010 at 9:16 pm

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Why Use Green Superfoods On A Detox Diet?

Green super food for detox dietYou have probably seen recipes for detox diets that say add a spoonful of green superfood to your juice or green smoothie.  So what exactly are green superfoods and why should you use them?

You know that greens are good for you. Experts have been telling us that for years. Green leafy vegetables are full of  vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals, those natural plant chemicals that are needed for good health. Green superfoods are another breed of green vegetable that are even better for you.

These green giants are made from algae and cereal grasses like barley grass, chlorella, spirulina, blue-green algae, wheat grass, and alfalfa. They are simply chock full of energy boosting and health giving nutrients – vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids, antioxidants, fiber, protein, nucleic acids ( they direct cellular renewal, growth, and repair) and more.

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Posted by Sandy Halliday - November 10, 2010 at 9:14 pm

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9 Reasons You Need to Be Detox Juicing

This is a guest post by John McIntyre.

Juice DetoxDetox juicing is an amazing thing to do. It is all about looking after your body and making the most of life. You see, when you have your health, you have hope. And when you have hope, you have everything.

If you’re not sure of whether to try detox juicing, check out these 10 reasons why you need to start today:

1. Give your body what it needs.

The human body NEEDS the vitamins and minerals inside fresh fruits and vegetables to survive. We evolved on a diet of mainly plants and as such, we depend on them still. However, sometimes it’s hard to get all the nutrients we need, and this is why juicing is so great.

In one glass, you can have 6 carrots, 3 apples, and chunk of ginger (I had one of these for breakfast!). In another, beetroot, celery, grapefruit, lemon, ginger, cayenne pepper and turmeric (I call it the liver cleanser). In another, a whole bunch of different fruits and vegetables. You get the idea.

You’re grabbing the amazing nutrients from a whole array of different stuff and cramming it  into a glass, making for a potent and powerful health elixir.

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Posted by Sandy Halliday - August 30, 2010 at 8:01 am

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Boost The Detox Process With Juice

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Cleansing and detoxing may be a current trending topic, but it’s not a new idea. Not to your body anyway. Every day the body cleans itself by using the colon, liver and kidneys, lymphatic system, skin, and lungs to detoxify. On the cellular level, regeneration is alway occurring.

If our body is detoxing on an ongoing basis, then why do we experience sluggishness? Just as you might get tired and overworked from your 9-5 job, your body also suffers, and when it doesn’t get proper nutrients, the situation worsens. Sometimes we need to cleanse through diet to give the natural process a boost. One of the best and easiest ways to do this is through juicing.

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Posted by Sandy Halliday - July 27, 2010 at 8:12 pm

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How to Detox with Chlorella: Nadia Brydon Explains

How to detox with ChlorellaResearch has shown Chlorella to be extraordinarily effective in helping to eliminate toxins, heavy metals, and radiation from the body. Nadia, Brydon, Medical Herbalist and Raw Food Educator uses Chlorella extensively in her work.  In this interview she shares a wealth of information about how to detox with chlorella.

Q1 You recently gave a talk about Chlorella. Can you tell us how you came to be so interested in it?

I first began to learn the importance of all green foods when studying in the USA at the Hippocrates Institute about 8 years ago.  The Institute in their wisdom always puts every single patient on Chlorella because it’s the ultimate green food.

It has incredible detoxifying, micronutrient, immune boosting and healing qualities and I saw at the Institute firsthand how for hundreds of people it just seemed to not only give incredible energy but was a real miracle food, healing so many people.

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Posted by Sandy Halliday - June 16, 2010 at 8:53 pm

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Detox: Treat Yourself to a 2 Day Home Spa Detox

Home Spa Detox

Home Spa Detox

Don’t you sometimes feel that you would like to spend a weekend relaxing and indulging yourself  at a health spa? In these busy days of trying to balance work, family and social commitments it’s often hard to find time for ourselves. Some “me time” is important to counteract the stresses of today’s hectic lifestyle.  But the high cost of a health spa can often make it impossible. So let’s look at how you can have a 2 day home spa detox.

Set aside a weekend or 2 days when you have no commitments. If you have children try to get a grandparent or friend to have them for the weekend. The most important thing about the weekend is that you feel relaxed and not guilty about spending time on yourself.

Get yourself organized before the weekend with everything you will need for the 2 day home spa detox. If your diet is full of processed or junk food you should try to cut down on them during the 2 weeks before you start the weekend detox. Reduce regular tea, coffee, soft drinks and alcohol. Try to find ways of getting more fruit and vegetables into your diet. Eat more fruit instead of high fat and sugar snacks. Drink more pure water.

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Your home spa detox is going to consist of:

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Posted by Sandy Halliday - February 17, 2010 at 10:44 pm

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Simple, Powerful Body Cleansing Techniques

Detoxification seems to be all the rage these days. As well it should be at – especially at a time when even newborns are found to be born with hundreds of known poisons already in their bloodstream. It’s a shame, and it’s important to know that a lot of problems related to having a toxic body can be completely avoided by detoxifying your body deeply. Deep detoxification is a process, and it doesn’t happen in just a week or two. But, if you’re interested in cleansing your body, there is no time like the present to start, and below are three easy techniques to get started with.

Colon Cleansing
Are you aware that most people have more than ten pounds of old, uneliminated fecal matter inside them? It’s a lot of filth, that filth can easily be removed by cleansing your colon. Colon cleansing is often done with enemas or professional colonics, and these are the most thorough methods. Often, however, colon cleansing often needs to be done repeatedly to achieve the desired detoxification results. And, it’s important that you always replenish your healthy bacteria with probiotics after doing any colon cleansing.

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Posted by Sandy Halliday - February 7, 2010 at 10:34 am

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