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Sugar Detox – How Can I Break My Sugar Addiction?

Guest post by Anna Tolson of Vital Detox Retreats.

If this is a question that you have asked yourself then, like any addiction, you are half way to breaking it. Most people don’t even realize that sugar is a problem and can be as addictive as any drug and much easier to get hold of. Nor do most people realize how harmful it is for their health. It has become such a huge part of our diet that, most of the time, we don’t even realize that we’re eating it.

We tend to think that sugar means the white stuff we spoon it into our coffee or tea, or maybe sweet things like cakes and biscuits. In reality any and every carbohydrate we eat or drink gets turned into sugar by the body and, if not burnt off, is then stored as fat.

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Four Simple Daily Detox Tips to Keep Your Body Clean and Toxin Free

Guest Post by Tom White

While following a detox plan from time to time is a wonderful way to treat your body, maintaining that clean and toxin-free feeling is difficult if you lead a typical, busy lifestyle. The four tips listed here provide a foundation for healthy living by reducing the toxins in your body on a daily basis – try them, and experience a sense of well-being from within.

Start Your Day with a Glass of Warm Water and Lemon

Don’t shock your body first thing in the morning with a glass of cold water, or worse a coffee! Wake up gently with an alkalising warm water and lemon drink.

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A Natural Cure for Fibromyalgia & IBS – Kelly Hoffman Interview

Kelly Hoffman successfully cured herself of irritable bowel syndrome and fibromyalgia using only natural methods including detox and cleansing. She has studied holistic health for the past 14 years and practices as a natural health consultant. I recently interviewed her about her eBook The Secrets to Curing Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Q1. Kelly, you have written a very informative eBook about how to cure IBS & Fibromyalgia naturally. You say you were lucky that you learned early that drugs cannot heal the body. How did you learn this?

A. When I was just out of high school, I had surgery on my left foot for what several doctors told me was a growth on one of my nerves along the ball of my foot. With the consent of my parents, I had surgery to remove the supposed growth. We were told it was a successful surgery, but they never really gave me a lot of details. I was still young, so I didn’t put much thought into it.

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Oil Pulling, Swishing or Oil Therapy

Guest post by Anna Tolson of Vital Detox Retreat

Oil pulling therapy is widely know in Eastern health traditions and is a simple, yet astoundingly effective method of cleansing the blood. It is helpful for numerous disorders, including tooth and gum diseases, blood diseases, lung and liver disorders, headaches, skin diseases, gastric ulcers, poor appetite and intestinal problems, heart and kidney ailments, encephalitis, nervous conditions, poor memory, female disorders, a puffy face and bags under the eyes – it has so many benefits that it really is worth trying!

The therapy consists of simply of swishing a good quality, organic, cold pressed oil in the mouth. It is best to do this in the morning, preferably after awakening or anytime before breakfast.

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How To Detox Salt From Your Body

It was reported in the news this week that devotees of Heinz HP sauce were complaining bitterly about the new lower salt recipe. They said it tasted disgusting, bland and sickly. It just shows how much people rely on the the taste of salt and prompted me to write this article about how to detox salt from your body.

Why would you want to detox salt?

Although we need a certain amount of salt every day to stay healthy too much is bad for you. Salt or sodium is the major alkaline mineral of the fluid that bathes every cell in your body. It helps to controls the fluid balance and together with the minerals calcium, magnesium and potassium it is needed for the electrical impulses that control your nerves and muscles.

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Is your Intestinal Candida really SIBO?

If you think you have intestinal Candida yeast overgrowth and are having a hard time getting it under control you may have SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth). The symptoms of SIBO aka SBBO (small bowel bacterial overgrowth ) are very similar to those of Candida so it’s easy to confuse the two conditions. It is possible and not uncommon to have both conditions.

What is SIBO

Small intestine bacterial overgrowth is, as the name suggests, an overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine. It is an overgrowth of bacteria that should not be present in large quantities in the small intestine.

Although the entire digestive system is populated with bacteria the small intestine does not contain anywhere near the number of bacteria that is found in the large intestine (colon).
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Are Coconuts The Latest Super Food?

According to recent media reports coconuts are the latest super food. Celebrities are drinking coconut water, adding coconut oil to their diets, and using it as part of a detox diet. The beauty industry is having a field day using it as a super ingredient in a variety of products.

Health stores have apparently reported a 50% increase in sales of coconut oil in the past year. Manufacturers are falling over themselves to produce the best selling coconut soft drink. So what is all the fuss about?

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Control Emotional Stress To Reap the Full Benefits of Detox Diet

Have you ever considered the fact that the way you think might be related to the toxins in your body and brain? Feeling of anger, anxiety, panic, depression, neurotic behavior can all be the result of toxicity. And to create a vicious cycle, emotional stress or negative thoughts can, in turn, create toxicity. So, to benefit fully from a detox diet you have to learn to deal with your emotions. It is also known as emotional detox.

Detox Diet Plan Mental and emotional stress contribute to most diseases in some way. Stress causes the body to release certain chemicals which, if allowed to build up, are toxins in themselves. They disrupt the body’s delicate biochemical balance. Doctors know that mental attitude has a huge effect in the outcome of treatments of various diseases.

In Chinese medicine the emotion of anger affects your liver function, worry will upset your digestive system, fear disturbs your kidney function and grief damages the lungs.

When you don’t worry or are stressed your adrenal glands don’t secrete the stress hormones such as cortisol which suppresses the immune system and upsets the nervous system.

Stress prevents liver detox

Many researchers have observed the profound effect the mind can have on the cells in your body. One study showed that stress could prevent the liver detoxifying a certain drug. Scientists have verified that the hormones released in response to stress do have an adverse effect on the liver’s detox pathways. So to get the full benefits of a detox diet it’s very important to be able to control emotional stress.

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Is Colonic Irrigation For Detox Dangerous?

Colonic Irrigation is dangerous! That was the sensational headline in my newspaper. Thousands of people testify to the benefits of colonic irrigation or colonic hydrotherapy, as it is also called, as part of a detox plan so how can that be?

An article published last week in The Journal of Family Practice apparently claims that colon “cleansing” can cause side effects ranging from cramping to renal failure and death. Journalists have had a field day with it as you can imagine.

A press release published on the Georgetown University Medical Center website talks about colonic irrigation and herbal bowel cleansing (the two are often used together) and it is not clear exactly which procedure they are referring to. It states that researchers reviewed 20 scientific studies published in the last 10 years and came to the conclusion that there is very little evidence that it is beneficial.

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Detox Your Body To Cure Cancer Naturally

There is no doubt that many of the chemical toxins that are stored in your body by the hundreds can cause cancer. Although there are many other contributing factors many alternative cancer therapies are based on the fact that you must detox your body if you want to cure cancer naturally.

You are being poisoned

You are being poisoned by the 83,000 known toxic substances that are in the environment. These toxic substances can interfere with your body’s inherent ability to heal itself. And when that happens, you are unable to defend yourself against disease.

Cancer is a topic that touches almost everyone throughout the world.To be diagnosed with it is very frightening but it need not be a death sentence. Many people, when told to go home and prepare to die, took their treatment into their own hands and are alive and well today.

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Sugar Detox – How Can I Break My Sugar Addiction?

Four Simple Daily Detox Tips to Keep Your Body Clean and Toxin Free

A Natural Cure for Fibromyalgia & IBS – Kelly Hoffman Interview

Oil Pulling, Swishing or Oil Therapy

How To Detox Salt From Your Body

Is your Intestinal Candida really SIBO?

Are Coconuts The Latest Super Food?

Control Emotional Stress To Reap the Full Benefits of Detox Diet

Is Colonic Irrigation For Detox Dangerous?

Detox Your Body To Cure Cancer Naturally

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