Enjoy these recipes for detox diets that make
you feel better and lose weight the way nature intended you to.
Body cleansing diets seem to be all the rage right now; movie
stars and regular folks alike are singing the praises over the benefits of cleaning out your body
and ridding it of all those toxins we have spent a lifetime accumulating in our systems. Chemicals,
preservatives, fats, hormones, insecticides, and the like tend to inhabit our bodies for years, and
lots of folks claim that the key to feeling better, functioning the way nature intended, losing
weight, and being healthier is to enjoy recipes for detox diets.
If you thought that detoxification was meant only as a system for
bringing drug or alcohol abusers down from their chemical dependencies you would be only partially
right. However, this is not the case with detoxifying diets. Formulas for detox diets are
meant to clean your body’s elimination system of impurities from the food we eat and even the air
we breathe. Generally, detoxification diets are designed to clean the colon and liver, where
impurities tend to accumulate.
The key to most blueprints for body cleansing diets is to include
lots of fiber, lots of water, and eating veggies, nuts, fruits, and beans. What is missing
from the above lists of foods? Meat! Meat intake needs to be reduced. What else is missing?
Processed starches! Bread and pasta are notoriously absent when you are cleansing your bodies’
digestive system.
Cleansing drinks are a great way to give another boost to the
healthy detoxification your body needs. Simply get some of your favorite fruits - berries are
especially nutritious and delicious - and throw them in the blender with some purified water and
ice. Whip them up until they are a thick-but-drinkable consistency, and you have an awesome
breakfast or snack that will help your colon get rid of the yucky stuff that resides
there.
Soups of various kinds are also some of the recipes for detox
diets that you can find. Gazpacho soup and alkaline diet soups are very frequently used for
body and colon cleaning diets. Alkaline diets are those that rely heavily on vegetables, nuts, and
legumes, all of which help move things along in the digestive system and thus, are beneficial
ingredients for any soup recipe.
One particularly popular and tasty alkaline soup recipe is for a
vegetable broth. You simply chop up celery, broccoli, spinach, and a zucchini into tiny pieces. Add
them to a big pot of distilled water, and simmer for about a half an hour.
Then, run the ingredients through a strainer or colander,
reserving the broth. All those natural vitamins remain in the water when you boil those
veggies, which is why you should minimally steam your vegetables when eating them. In this
case, you are after the broth, so it is okay to boil the heck out of the vegetables. Discard
the chopped vegetables and drink the broth.
Each of these recipes for detox diets contain
viable ingredients for helping you to lose weight and keeping your body’s elimination system
working as it
should.
Always consult your
physician before starting this or any weight loss
program.
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