Detox to Lose Weight
Detoxification programs have been promoted as the remedy to today’s unhealthy lifestyles for years. Proponents of detoxification note that a good detox can help increase energy, slow the aging process, aid the digestive system and help relieve the symptoms of diabetes and asthma. One of the greatest benefits of a good detoxification program is weight loss.
Our bodies are equipped with several systems to help it naturally detox. However, today’s stressful lifestyles and unhealthy eating habits often overburden our natural systems. As our body struggles to keep up with the toxic matter flowing through our systems it often falls behind. Toxic waste begins to back up and the balance of our body is disrupted.
A good detox will help restore the body’s balance, eliminate the waste building up and make our systems run much more efficiently. During autopsies, coroners often find colons that are more than 75% clogged with waste matter. This causes the systems that clean our blood and intestinal tracts to back up. Nutrients can’t be absorbed as efficiently and we gain weight, become tired and irritable. Health issues often follow.
Cleaning the colon and the liver often completely relieves these clogs and allows our bodies to return to optimum functioning. Nutrients are used efficiently and many find that the detox program has such great results that they simply don’t crave sugar and fried foods after the detoxification. Many report feeling so good after detoxifying that they are motivated to eat more carefully.
With the toxins being flushed out of the body, many report a dramatic increase in energy level, encouraging many to exercise and further assist their detox in reducing weight.
Researchers have found that as the level of toxins in the body rises, more fat is manufactured to protect the body. Weight gain is a natural by-product of toxin buildup. Removing the toxins from the body allows the body to release the excess fat, resulting in a natural weight loss.
There are many detoxification programs on the market. Choose a gentle, well researched program that includes a parasite remover as well. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at your increased energy and amount of weight loss!
Sandra Kim Leong owns the resource-rich site on detoxification and cleansing. She strongly believes that detoxification should form part of one’s regular health regime. Her site includes information on colon cleansing, kidney cleansing, detox diets, mercury detoxification, etc. For free articles and tips, please visit http://www.detox-cleansing.com.
Tags: Detox, detoxification, lose weight, weight lossFreedom Through Health!
“My weight concern gets me down, i can barely make it up and down the stairs, and especially after a long day my feet are so swollen i can hardly move.” The voice of one of my last clients last December on their first appointment with me.
Does this not sound all too familier though for the majority of us? and I am not just talking about the un-privilidged few, I am talking about the majority of our species!
Reading thousands of articles, books and listning to hundreds of hours worth of health and wellbeing seminars, I absolutely know that the information for health, happiness and most importantly of all FREEDOM is out there for each and every single one of us. However, it is like the more we fight against obesity, diabetes, cancer’s, stress, heart disease “just to name a few,” the more the problem’s increase and the more each of us suffers. It is just absolutely crazy!
So this is what I have done, I have taken every piece of reading material I have ever read on health, every seminar I have been priviliged to of heard on health, happiness etc and to be quite honest every piece of information that has been passed through me at somepoint, and I have simplified what all of it means. I mean every single piece of it. And it comes down to 2 things.
1) Make health and complete must in your life
2) Believe in yourself
That is it! Plain and simple. Yes there is information out there on just about every way you can get your body, mind and soul into complete shape and you can spend your entire lifetime’s earnings paying some expert to fix you. But without prioritising health and then believing in yourself there is absolutely no point.
Some people say “you can’t have it all.” Well I say that “you can have it all!”
One of my clients approached me in 2005 and said that their doctor said if he didn’t do something about his weight very soon, he would most certainly die. He said that being over 300 lbs was scaring his arteries, placing pressure on all of his organs, his colon would certainly develop cancer within 10 years. What type of life is that? Worse still, he had no self belief that he could do anything about changing it around. He knew full well health had to be a priority but didn’t have the self belief to follow it through.
This is exactly why you must have both in your life! And it is never too late “as every moment that passes by is a chance to turn it all around.” (Vanilla Sky.) You are not too old or too fat or even too dead “until you are dead,” to make the change of a lifetime.
So my message for you today is to take control of your health your wellbeing and set yourself the inner game of ultimate self belief. As it is such a beautiful journey. Life is for living and for no less than 100%
This is what I call FREEDOM.
Peter Scott
Copyright (Peter Scott 2006)
Tags: be more free, Detox, exercise advice, happiness, nutrition, prioritise your health, successWild Watercress Soupt (Nasturtium officinale)
Wild Watercress soup is a delicious and nutritious recipe with the leaves available in spring and early summer. Watercress is rich in Vitamins A and C, iron, iodine and phosphorus. Watercress has been used as part of a holistic response to cancer of the lungs, larynx, oesophagus, prostate, bladder, uterus, stomach and intestines. It can be used in the treatment of:
skin problems
bronchitis
winter colds or flu
liver or kidney fatigue
sinusitis
However there are dangers: watercress may cause cystitis in some people and its medicinal use is not advised for those who have a delicate stomach or suffer from acidosis or heartburn. Excessive or prolonged use may lead to kidney problems. Some doctors advise against its use during pregnancy. Wild watercress often grows in streams inhabited by water snails which carry liver fluke. There is also the possibility of bacterial infection. Eating wild watercress in a raw state is not advised for this reason. Cooking the leaves for a short period removes the dangers. Also make sure that the watercourse feeding the stream in which the watercress grows is free from industrial or agricultural pollution.
Ingredients for watercress soup: Pick the watercress from clean water areas by pinching out the tops of the plants. Uprooting them will destroy this resource for everyone. Gather a good handful for each person who will be sharing this delicious spring treat. Other ingredients for a soup for 4 people are:
2 large potatoes
generous knob of butter
dash of olive oil (to prevent butter burning)
stock cube (chicken or vegetable)
salt and freshly ground pepper
single cream
Instructions:
1. Cube the potatoes and cook them gently in the oil and butter until they are starting to soften
2. Add boiling water and dissolve the stock cube. Simmer for 10-15 minutes
3. Coarsely chop the watercress and add to the mix for about 7 minutes, stirring occasionally
4. Liquidise and add in some single cream to taste. Add Salt and pepper to taste
5. Use some purchased raw watercress leaves and pepper to garnish
This nutritious soup is warming when hot and a refreshing summer soup when served cold. Watercress is part of the Nasturtium family whose peppery leaves are well known for their nutraceutical value. In addition to containing high vitamin C contents and antioxidant Beta-carotene, it contains vitamin E and is a natural antibiotic. It is sometimes used in complementary medicine to speed up the body’s detoxification processes.
Thanks to Dr A. Dracea, J. Lust, R. Phillips
From an ebook called ‘Wild Food’ underway at simonthescribe.
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