You’ve decided that you want to detox. You know it’s the right thing to do but you can’t quite bring yourself to do it? You are having trouble getting started. If this sums it up for you then this article from coach Karen Knowler can help. Although it’s about going raw you can apply these tips to starting and maintaining a detox diet.

What Do You Need To Believe?

Belief is one of the most powerful, if not THE most powerful, internal drivers in existence.

When we believe in something, both our head and our heart are engaged, and taking action becomes easy because we are already in alignment.

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If you are following a plan of vegetarian diet nutrition, are you getting it all? First we have to destroy the myth that eating a Standard American Diet (SAD) provides you with what your body really needs.

If you’ve been learning at the Hippocrates Health Institute for any amount of time, you now know that the food pyramid’s aim is to help the lobbyists , not your health. Most people on the SAD are starving their body of vitamins and minerals, enzymes and phytochemicals.

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Searching for a method to effortlessly include much more vitamins and nutrients into your diet regime? If so, you may want to discover the concept of juicing. In this post, we’ll include some of the benefits of juicing as well as recommend one of the most popular juicers for getting going which is the Green Power Gold Juicer.

Employing a compact kitchen gadget called a juicer may bring remarkable rewards to your overall well-being and health. Juicing is basically getting rid of the juice and nutrients from any selection of fruits and vegetables. This is basically the intake of uncooked food in its finest sense and lots of individuals who adhere to a raw food diet get much of their nutritional vitamins and energy from meals that they drink in this way.

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Body detox is among the best ways that of keeping ourselves clean and healthy, besides different methods like special diets, vitamin supplements, natural therapies, and thus on. A necessary step in a full body detox is to restore or additionally to replenish energy levels to make you more alert in numerous areas of your life, such as at work.

A body cleanse or body detox is  a good method to provide your body with a lift when an evening of over-indulgence, eating all the wrong foods and consuming more alcohol than is healthy.  That is why body detox is needed as a result of some folk having this sort of lifestyle.

The human body features a detox system that removes harmful substances from the body through excretion but when we put pressure on it by eating unhealthy foods, drinking an excessive amount of alcohol and not obtaining enough sleep the system is weakened.

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Here is a great article and advice from Karen Knowler the raw food coach. Even though you may not be a raw foodist you can still benefit from her amazing insights:

I’m kicking off the New Year with some life change assignments for you! Well, you know what a fan I am of upgrading your life as you upgrade your diet – to me the two absolutely go hand in hand. So if you’re ready for a better experience of life and living this year in many different dimensions then grab a pen and paper and prepare to complete the first 3 assignments on your
list of what will, before the month is out, become 10. Ready to freshen things up a little? Read on…

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You might not be thinking too much about your health right now but it’s not too early to start making your plans for your detox next year. In fact detox has already been suggested as the thing to do during the weeks leading up to Christmas so you can eat, drink and make merry as you please! It’s being referred to as “Pre-Tox”. In effect, you detox with the idea of re-toxifying with all sorts of unhealthy food and alcohol! How crazy is that?

Pre-Tox is plain crazy

I am all for detox but the idea of going on a detox diet to lose some weight so you can pig out over the party season is just plain stupid. Anyone with any notion of health at all will realize that the the whole idea of a detox diet is to get rid of toxins to improve your health not to make it alright to eat a load of junk and avoid the weight gain.

Boost your immune system

If it’s Winter where you live then it’s not the time to be skipping meals and restricting calories. This is the time of the year to be trying to boost your immune system so you avoid catching those pesky cold and flu viruses. The extra stresses and strains increases dramatically at this time of the year.

Regular meals, a good breakfast, warming vegetable soups and lean meat stews, whole grains, plenty of fruit and vegetables and a few fresh nuts will give you the nutrients needed for good immunity. Don’t forget to add a little raw food too.

It’s vital to get plenty of sleep. The longer days of darkness mean that it’s natural to have more sleep .Late nights and stress will take their toll on your body. Too much alcohol, sugar or heavy meals before bedtime ruin a good night’s sleep.

Detox the alcohol

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Here is Frederic Patenaude’s easy,  1 Day Detox anyone can safely follow, once a week or so:

BREAKFAST:

Either skip breakfast, or make a light smoothie consisting of some fruit and greens.

For example:

* 3-4 bananas
* 1-2 cups of sweet fruit (mango, papaya, pear, apple, etc.)
* 2 cups of baby spinach
* water

Blend together

LUNCH:

Same as breakfast, or have a fruit meal of one or two types of fruit. (Eaten whole or as a smoothie.) For example: papaya and banana, blended together or eaten together.

AFTERNOON SNACK:

Make another green smoothie. Here’s one of my favorites:

* 3-4 bananas
* 1 ½ cups of frozen blueberries
* 2 cups of spinach or romaine lettuce or other greens (non-bitter)

Blend with water!

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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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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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Since Oprah Winfrey started raving about the benefits of  Acai Berries that she included in her detox and weight loss regime many companies have rushed to launch their own products. There are sites all over the internet offering free trial bottles and these are some of the outrageous things that they claim this latest superfood can do for you:

• Flush out Excess Pounds!

• Break Up and Remove Harmful Toxins!

• Have More Energy! Fight Fatigue!

• Reduce Gas & Boating, while Flattering your Tummy!

• Risk Free Trial!

Wow! Sounds like a miracle to me. I was intrigued to know how a few capsules filled with an extract of Acai Berries (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) could do all this or is it just another elaborate scam?  What is it about this little berry that has suddenly got the media into a frenzy?

Here are some facts:

The Acai Berry grows in the rainforests of the Amazon and has been known for it’s health benefits by the local people for thousand of years. The berries are said to contain twice as many antioxidants as blueberries, 10 times more than red grapes, are rich is fiber, minerals and omega 6 and 9 fatty acids.

Dermatologist and skin care expert Dr Perricone rates Acai berries as the number one superfood in his latest book overtaking both pomegranates and blueberries. There is no doubt that it’s a great food if you can eat enough of it but here’s the problem:

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