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Tasty Recipes for Detox Green Smoothies

You can make yourself some detox green smoothies at any time of the year. They are so easy to make, so tasty to drink and incredibly nutritious. You just whizz up some fruit and a bunch of greens and you have your breakfast, lunch, dinner or healthy snack. Before we get to the recipes let’s take a quick look at why they are so very good for you.

Detox Green Smoothies provide healthy carbohydrates, all essential amino acids and an abundance of vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and chlorophyll so are an excellent choice whether you are following a detox diet or not.

Green smoothies make use of the whole food and includes the fiber which has numerous health benefits for the digestive system. I wrote a post here about whether blending fruit and vegetables is better than juicing for detox?

Greens contain more valuable nutrients than any other food group. Greens are high in carotenoids, and other antioxidants that guard against heart disease, cancer, and problems with blood sugar regulation.

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De-stress And Relax With A Detox Bath Soak

Relaxing in the bath can be a great way to de-stress during the holiday season. A detox bath soak is a useful way to get rid of foreign chemicals that have accumulated in your body. Why not have the best of both worlds and relax in a detox bath?

Detoxification baths work because the hot water increases the blood flow near the surface of your skin, opens your pores and increases sweating encouraging the release of toxins. If you are following a detox diet plan during cold weather it’s always a good idea to have frequent hot baths to keep the blood circulating and your body warm.

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Skin Detox: Easy Steps to Radiant Skin Renewal

A pure and natural approach to skin restoration is always best and can enhance the surface of the skin, while rejuvenating the layers beneath for a complete skin detox. Organic remedies work with your body’s native defence systems to cleanse and rejuvenate your skin from head to toe.

The Sauna Solution

Saunas have been used for hundreds of years for skin detox and overall health. Both wet and dry sauna treatments increase your heart rate and maximize blood flood to the skin and more circulating blood brings the benefits of increased oxygen and nutrients to the skin. The skin’s toxins are also released through sweat, to rid the skin of impurities for complete skin detox. Saunas are extremely safe when used properly and involve no chemicals or artificial ingredients. However, be sure to drink plenty of water to re-hydrate after a sauna.

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Best Liver Detox Foods for Winter Health

This is the time of the year that your liver can suffer under the stresses and strains, rich party food, too much comfort food and excess of alcohol of the festive season. When your liver is healthy, so are you. You can help keep it healthy by making sure you include a good number of liver detox foods during the winter.

Before we look at the best liver detox foods and why you should make a point of eating them let’s look at all the amazing functions your liver is responsible for.

The liver is the main organ of detoxification of foreign chemicals, toxic waste produced in the body and drugs but it has many other functions:

Processes fats with the bile it produces
Breaks down and regulates your hormones
Filters your blood
Helps to regulate blood sugar levels
Regulates your cholesterol levels
Making enzymes and proteins responsible for many chemical reactions
Turns your food into energy
Helps to combat infections
Stores iron and Vitamins A , D, K & B12.

Your liver is under siege virtually every minute of every day. It detoxifies all the foreign chemicals that get into your body from food, air and water and products you put on your skin. We are all exposed to so many chemical toxins in our environment these days that the liver becomes overloaded with them.

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Spice Up Your Healthy Diet To Detox Gently In Winter

Spices can perk up any meal and are fantastic for your health. Winter is not the time for following a very restrictive detox diet but you can still eat healthily and add spices that will not only warm you up but will help you gently detox too. Spices have been used traditionally in Natural medicine for years but science is showing that they are powerful weapons against many diseases.

Turmeric

Ground turmeric is the spice that makes rice and curry dishes yellow. It has long been used in China and India to treat many conditions including including diarrhea, fever, jaundice, bronchitis, colds, worms, and bladder and kidney inflammations. It is commonly used in Ayurveda to purify the blood and treat skin conditions.

Turmeric treats the entire digestive system. Traditionally it is used for weak stomachs and poor digestion. It can calm an upset digestive system by getting rid of gas and distention and increase bile production helping with detoxification of toxins that the liver has processed. Recent research has shown that it can help with healing peptic ulcers and may be useful for Colitis and Crohn’s disease.

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Healthy Living Tips For The Holiday Season

With only 7 weeks to Christmas and Thanksgiving just round the corner for Americans it’s easy to caught up in all the festive eating and ruin the results of your latest detox diet.

It’s said that the average American consumes around 3,000 calories during their Thanksgiving Day meal. And according to the Food Standards Agency in the UK the average person’s food intake on Christmas day stacks up to whopping 7000 calories.

With many people consuming an extra 500 calories a day during the season it’s not surprising that the average adult gains around 5lbs ( 2.3 kg) by the time January arrives. Neither is it surprising that the main complaints are bloating and indigestion, the after effects of alcohol, stress, and feeling tired. No wonder everyone want to go on a detox diet in the New Year.

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Is Your Hair Dye Damaging Your Liver And Risking Your Life?

If you use hair dye to look younger or improve the way you look you could actually be shortening your life. In England a 17 year old girl recently died in hospital after she reacted badly to Para- Phenylendiamine (PPD) an ingredient in the hair dye she used to darken her hair.

Although it has not been proven that PPD killed her it is present in many hair dyes and is known to be toxic to the liver, kidneys, immune system, nervous system and respiratory system. Campaigners are calling for a ban on it.

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Feng Shui: A Natural And A Healthy Home

When most people consider creating a healthy home environment, possibly the last thing they consider is using Feng Shui for a natural and a healthy home environment. Feng Shui, the ancient art of placement and arrangement of materials in a home, has long been an accepted practice in the East and is fast becoming popular in the West. Many who already utilize it swear by the benefits derived from following its principles.

First, assess the outside of the home or apartment. Does it have inspiring views? Is the plant life luscious and alive? Is the home welcoming and inviting? Whether a person is sensitive to Feng Shui or not, the subtle energies of a home are experienced by all that live and visit there. Think about the last visit made to a friend’s home and whether it was a welcoming feeling or not. Front doors, entryways, foyers can all set the mood for those entering the home.

One of the major tenants of Feng Shui is that the center of the home, the strong energy center, must be kept clean and clutter free. According to Feng Shui practitioners, the eastern area of the home is the portion dedicated to health and family matters. This area needs to be keep clean, brightly lit, and happy. Keeping happy family memories, or pictures, in this area provides a good flow of energy that can combat illnesses and ward off unwanted stresses to the body.

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Detox Soups for Winter Cleansing

Cooling juices and salads are great for detox during the summer but if you are anything like me you will find them too cooling for cleansing during the colder months. I like to use warming detox soups during Autumn and Winter instead.

You can make delicious, warming, satisfying and nutritious soups with vegetables, gluten free grains, beans and lentils. Vegetables are choc full of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other phytochemicals that help rev up the detox pathways.

Sip these wonderful detox soups for a couple of days and you will hardly notice you are on a detox diet at all.

Home made soups are easy to make and are far more nutritious than those out of a carton or can. If you can make your own vegetable stock to use as a base it will be even more nutritious than using stock cubes.

Potassium broth is perhaps the best known detox soup. There are many slightly different recipes for this and I have already posted one on here: 3 Day Detox Diet

Here are some detox soup recipes to get you started. Some are cooked soups and some are raw. You can gently heat the raw ones so they are just warm but not beyond the temperature that destroys the enzymes. Use organic vegetables as much as possible.

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Flush Out Chemicals With A Niacin Detox

Niacin Detox was an important part of the Purification Program developed by scientists by 1979 for releasing toxins from tissues. The program was developed as a result of research into methods of cleansing the body of drugs.

Niacin is Vitamin B3 and along with B1 and B2 is needed for the Phase 1 detox. Niacin, nicotinamide and nicotinic acid are all forms of Vitamin B3 but niacinimide plays no part in detoxification.

Niacin is needed for energy production, proper digestion, manufacture of hormones, gene expression, a healthy nervous system and healthy skin. We cannot do without it. A certain amount can be made in the body from the amino acid tryptophan, found in meat, dairy and eggs, if there is adequate B1, B2 and B6 but this does not supply our total needs.

Vitamin B3 is found in all organ meats, chicken, beef, salmon, tuna, wheat germ, green leafy vegetables, beans, peas, raw mushrooms, avocados, nuts, dried figs, prunes and dates. Processed food suffers from a loss of niacin.

Sometimes the term niacin detox is used to describe a program often used to lower LDL cholesterol without drugs. Niacin can improve cardiovascular health and it is often used by doctors of alternative medicine and naturopaths as part of a program to reverse coronary artery disease. It can lower blood fats including cholesterol and widen the small blood vessels known as capillaries improving circulation.

The niacin detox I am talking about here is different. It bursts open fat cells ( lipolysis) to release chemicals or drugs that are stored in them. Many chemicals are stored in the fatty layers of your body. Once the toxins have been released they are detoxed from the body through the skin and intestines.

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Tasty Recipes for Detox Green Smoothies

De-stress And Relax With A Detox Bath Soak

Skin Detox: Easy Steps to Radiant Skin Renewal

Best Liver Detox Foods for Winter Health

Spice Up Your Healthy Diet To Detox Gently In Winter

Healthy Living Tips For The Holiday Season

Is Your Hair Dye Damaging Your Liver And Risking Your Life?

Feng Shui: A Natural And A Healthy Home

Detox Soups for Winter Cleansing

Flush Out Chemicals With A Niacin Detox

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