WEIGHT LOSS ADVISOR BLOG

If you are trying a detox diet for first time, then you need to start with gentle cleanse that targets the intestines. If you focus on the liver first, the released toxins in your body may become reabsorbed if the bowels are not detoxified first and are not moving adequately enough to expel them.

A typical detox diet program may consist of fasting, specific diet, nutritional supplements, herbs, hydrotherapy, exercise, and sauna.

Fasting

You can either fast by drinking only water, juices or broths or by eating one kind of food exclusively for a period of time.

Fasting is great for detox and obtaining better health. While fasting your body adapts to the lack of incoming protein by drawing upon almost solely fat for energy. Your metabolism will slow, so physical and mental activity should be minimized during a fast.

Water fasting - you can consume only water. Your body doesn’t spend any energy on digestion of foods, resulting in more energy for your body to expel toxins.

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Detoxification is a natural process your body performs routinely everyday, releasing stored toxins and expelling them through the elimination organs: the intestines, liver, lungs, kidneys and skin.

Detox Diet is a dietary nutritious plan used for weight loss by cleaning out your body cells from stored toxins.

Detox Diet – why do you need it?

The reason why you need a detox diet is that your daily ingest of toxins is too much for your body to eliminate through its regular daily detox processes.

Detox Diet recommends…

Detox diet eliminates all processed foods from your meals and recommends you eating organic foods, fruits and vegetables, drinking lots of purified water. Detox Diet requires giving up smoking, drinking alcohol and tons of coffee.

Click here for a list of foods you can eat and foods you can’t eat.

Cutting back on the bad food is not enough, but that’s what most diets do. Here is why detox diet is so essential from a nutrition point of view - it makes you increase the consumption of foods that are most beneficial for your health, vitality and energy, and is essential to weight loss.

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Probably you are asking yourself why detox diets are so popular lately. Actually detox diets are the last craze in dieting.

There are zillions of toxins affecting your way of life everyday by making you feel some very unpleasant symptoms, such as:

• weight gain
• low energy
• feelings of fatigue and weakness
• inability to sleep soundly
• sore muscles and skin
• joint pains
• headaches
• premenstrual syndrome
• anxiety and irritability
• frequent colds
• heartburn
• constipation and gases…

I can’t list all the symptoms, but I can assure you that toxins are all around you – in food and food additives, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, pesticides etc.

There are toxins formed during the metabolic processes in your body that can harm your body cells and tissues functioning. Usually your body eliminates most toxins and the rest are stored within body fat.

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In order to achieve Yin - Yang balance you must avoid eating only extremely Yin foods, extremely Yang foods, as well as processed foods with artificial colors, flavors, additives, and preservatives.

Yin foods are - sugars, chocolate, fruits and raw vegetables that grow above soil, juices and alcohol.

Yang foods are all animal foods – eggs, dairy, meat products and fish, as well as cooked root vegetables, coffee, and hot spices.

The macrobiotic diet is low in fat and rich in fiber, and recommends plenty of healthy foods, such as:

Wholegrain foods (50-60% of daily food intake) - brown rice, barley, millet, oats, corn, rye, whole wheat, and buckwheat are considered to be the most balanced Yin-Yang foods.

Brown rice is wholegrain, because retains the bran and germ. It is rich in fiber and more nutritious than white rice.

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Macrobiotic diet holistic basics

George Ohsawa was the founder of the Macrobiotic diet and philosophy. The Macrobiotic philosophy is based on the concept of Yin and Yang energies - they must be kept in balance for your body to be healthy.

The Macrobiotic diet is recommended for helping you achieve harmony between yin and yang energies in your body. The diet does not focus only on your physical well-being, but also deals with the spiritual and planetary aspects of your health.

It is considered that Yin represents expansion, Yang – contraction; Yin is cold, Yang is hot; Yin is sweet, Yang is salty; Yin is passive, Yang is aggressive.

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Lists of foods you can eat

Fresh Fruits - all kinds of fresh fruits except for grapefruit.

Fresh Vegetables - all fresh vegetables except for corn. The best detox veggies are broccoli, cauliflower, broccoli sprouts, onions, garlic, artichokes, beets, red and green vegetables.

Rice - brown or basmati rice, rice cakes, rice crackers and rice pasta.

Other Grains - quinoa, amaranth, millet, and buckwheat can be used instead of rice.

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The conditions caused from an overbalanced eating of high carbohydrate foods are excess weight, fatigue and drowsiness, depression, brain fogginess, bloating, low blood sugar, high blood pressure, high triglycerides etc.

If you have decided to start eating healthily, then you definitely need a list of low carbohydrate foods at hand while do shopping for your new healthy eating diet.

• Meat – bacon, beef, ham, mutton, pork, veal, duck, chicken, turkey
• Kidney and Liver - fried or stewed
• Sea foods - mackerel, trout, hake, cod, herring, salmon, shrimps, mussels, lobster
• Vegetables – asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, leeks, beans, peas, potatoes, radishes, spinach, watercress, turnips, beets, celery etc
• Fruits – apples, apricots, pumpkin, blackberries, raspberries, cherries etc.
• Mushrooms

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30-Minute Meal Cookbook

Everybody loves that book. It is Rachael Ray’s latest cookbook, which will release you from your boring everyday meals.

Imagine the following picture…

After a long day at work, I am absolutely sure that the last thing you would like to be doing is cooking in the kitchen for a couple of hours. As a result you are so tired that the only thing you want is to take a long relaxing bath.

Can you imagine cooking delicious meals fast and easy in just 30 minutes?

If you are a busy parent and spend more time cooking in the kitchen instead being with your family in the evening, then Rachael Ray 30-minute recipes for everyday in the year are just for you. This cookbook will allow you to prepare tasty and healthy meals within no time and share them with your family with great pleasure.

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