The whole idea of a weight loss detox is not primarily to lose weight but to get rid of chemicals in your body that interfere with the weight control system. Most of these chemicals are fat soluble. This means that unless your liver gets rid of them as they enter the body they get stored in the ...
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Can I Add Raw Maca Powder To Detox Smoothies?
I see Maca powder cropping up in juice and smoothie recipes more and more recently and I've seen people in Facebook Groups asking if it's good to add raw Maca powder to detox smoothies. Maca, also known as Peruvian ginseng, is small root, about the size of a radish and comes in a variety of ...
Read MoreWill A Juicing Diet Help You Lose Fat?
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) recently banned three juicing diet TV adverts due to lack of robust scientific evidence. The ads, featuring nutritionist Madeleine Shaw, claimed that certain fruit and vegetable juices could reduce fat and tone the stomach. In one ad for Philips ...
Read MoreSugar Detox Diet: Is Honey A Good Alternative To Sugar?
Amazon reviewers have accused TV presenter and fitness guru Davina McCall of being misleading for using honey in place of sugar in her sugar detox diet book: 5 Weeks to Sugar-Free Cookbook released earlier this year. Although some reviewers praise the book others have said "Some of these recipes ...
Read MoreCharcoal Detox: 2015’s Weirdest Juice Craze
Will you be grabbing a charcoal detox juice this year or will you give this one a miss? If you’re into green smoothies and juices you are probably used to adding whey protein, chia seeds, hemp hearts and green superfood but you might not have tried the latest trend of adding charcoal to your ...
Read MoreThe Wonders Of Detox Yoga To Enhance Cleansing & Weight Loss
Last week one of the UK's popular newspapers ran a series about the health benefits of Yoga but I didn't read anything about detox yoga. The only thing that was mentioned was that Bikram Yoga promotes sweating which is believed to help flush toxins from the body. Bikram or hot yoga (not all hot ...
Read MoreHave You Tried Tasty And Filling Detox Smoothie Bowls?
Seeing the recipes for party bowls all over the internet for America's Super Bowl last Sunday reminded me of Smoothie Bowls. If you're not a fan of regular green smoothies then give these detox smoothie bowls a try. I'll be surprised if you don't become hooked. By making them thick enough to eat ...
Read MoreDetoxing Your Body With Green Food
Detoxing your body with green food could be the new big thing this year. According to one of the UK's top luxury food retailers people are really starting to associate green food with health and they are soon launching an all green fruit salad and a green vegetable slaw. They have already ...
Read MoreWarming Detox Recipes For Breakfast
We're always being told breakfast is the most important meal of the day so if you've decided to detox when the weather is cold you will probably be wanting some tasty breakfast detox recipes that don't chill you to the bone. Time and time again researchers have found that eating a healthy ...
Read MoreEat Fat Lose Fat Detox Diet
It's the New Year and the newspapers and magazines are full of the latest weight loss diets. The sugar detox diet and the 5:2 diet are making the headlines again this year but the one that caught my eye was the Eat Fat Lose Fat diet. The idea that eating fat will help you detox and lose weight ...
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