In the last 10 years the superfood quinoa has gone from a detox food used by A-list celebrities and the very health conscious to a food that is served up in big high street outlets in the USA, UK and Australia. The demand for this ancient South American grain-like food, that is really a seed, is ...
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Easy Fruit and Vegetable Detox
Summer time, when there are so many luscious fruit and veg around, is a great time for a fruit and vegetable detox. I'm sure you know that fruits and vegetables are essential for your good health. They contain the vitamins, minerals, fiber that our bodies need to function efficiently and help ...
Read MoreIs Milk Kefir A Good Detox Food?
I've been watching the TV program Superfoods for the past few weeks and this week the program looked at kefir. They didn't say anything about it being a good detox food but many health practitoners recommend drinking it to support detoxification. Kate Quilton, the presenter, introduced Deborah ...
Read MoreIs A Pegan Diet A Good Detox Plan?
There can't be anyone interested in their health who has not either followed a detox plan or heard of it but you may not have heard of a Pegan Diet. The term has been only recently been coined by Dr Mark Hyman as a healthy way of eating that combines the best of the Paleo Diet and a Vegan ...
Read MoreSugar Detox: Dangers Of Hidden Sugar
"I ate my way to illness on healthy foods". That was a newspaper headline that caught my eye recently". How could that be? It turned out that Damon Gameau, an Australian actor who, after three years on a sugar detox diet, decided to eat foods perceived as healthy but contained hidden sugar as ...
Read MoreHow Detox Diet Carbs Help You Lose Weight
This week a prominant newspaper said that personal trainer Grace Lavinia claims that although carbohydrates continually receive bad press they are in fact good for you and help you lose weight. She says that carbohydrates are the body’s main energy source and need to make up about 1/3 of your daily ...
Read More5 Tasty Ways To Sneak Detox Veg Into Your Diet
There are so many tasty ways to get healthy detox veg into your diet that it's hard to believe that only 30% of people hit the 5 a day fruit and vegetable target. And researchers are now saying that the 25 year old, 5 a day recommendations by The World Health Organization is out of date and at ...
Read MoreDo I Really Have To Give Up Coffee For Detox?
We keep hearing that coffee has many health benefits yet we are told to give it up for detox. Why is that? If you are confused by the conflicting information that you read about coffee you are not the only one. On the one hand we have studies that say coffee may protect against Type 2 ...
Read MoreWhy You Should Do A Heavy Metal Detox for Optimal Health
With the shocking news that counterfeit makeup laced with heavy metals has been flooding the market in the UK journalists have been pointing out the amount of damage that they could cause in the body. None mention the fact that a heavy metal detox could help get them out. While a number of ...
Read MoreWill Birch Sap Become The Detox Juice of the Year?
A spiralizer may be the gadget of year and souping may be the new juicing but if journalists are to be believed then Birch sap is the detox juice of the year. Birch water or sap is predicted to knock coconut water off it's perch as the latest detox juice drink. The juice is harvested from the ...
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