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Dieting - Can it Detoxify My body?

By Elaine Olden


Dieting will detoxify the body and flush out certain toxins and chemicals that remain in the body from an unhealthy lifestyle. Smoking in particularly stops the toxins being flushed away by the blood. However by dieting and drinking plenty of water will flush out these remaining toxins and improve your health and as a bonus will improve your taste buds. You will be able to taste flavors you have not before as they have been suppressed by smoking. By flushing out with water used together with your diet plan you could well improve your skin complexion. The body does have a remarkable way, a natural way of detoxing the body normally. But certain diet plans will supercharge the effect and help it happen quicker.

Dieting to Detoxify

One plan to detoxify your body is the cabbage soup diet, based around water intake, through soups, drinks with elimination toxins, sugars, and carbohydrates. A combination of all of these over a period of a week will flush out the system. The only side effect and evidence of your body detoxifying is the onset of periodical headaches, but it is only natural and is only a common occurrence when detoxing the body. Stay with it and you will feel better once you get to the other side and you will have purified your body.

The same is true of fast food and junk food. These hold a lot of process rubbish toxins within the food itself and these need to be expelled. If you are overweight or obese, and you want to detox, maybe you need to see your doctor or health advisor to seek if you should be going on a detox plan. Some of the side effects may feel uncomfortable but, as mentioned before, are necessary to detoxify.

Dieting Plans

A couple of simple ways of detoxing your body. Water fasting. This is simple. You stop eating food and simply drink water, and let your body do the rest and expel the toxins. As soon as the digestion stops, your body can then concentrate on cleaning up the body and focusing it's energy on the clean up efforts.

Start first with a twenty-four-hour fast, and then if you are happy with that, go on to forty-eight hours or seventy-two-hour fasting. Plan your water fast for a period of time when you can rest as it will make you tired, lacking in energy, and potentially miserable, so you do not want to fast while still at work.

Another option is juice fasting. A juice gives the body a great content within the juice and enables the body plenty of energy to do the renewing task and cleansing of the system. For this, you will need to own your own juicing machine as commercially bought juices are not beneficial as they do not carry the required amount of enzymes to help your body digest quickly. Juices that can be created and made by yourselves will be carrots, spinach, apple, cabbage, and pineapple, as these are excellent options for a juice fast.

If you look around on the net or elsewhere, you will find many specialized detoxification diets and program plans that target particular areas of the body like the digestive tract and the liver.

You need to do your search first and get medical advice before taking on any of these programs for your long-term health.

If you need to know anything more about dieting or diets, click on the links below.

Elaine Olden is a well known author on Dieting and Nutrition, for more information click on:
Dieting Slimming techniquesCutting the Carbs

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