Wellness Tea
Posted on Sunday, June 21st, 2009 at 10:32 am
Does Learning To Detox Your Body Boost Your Health
I’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy good health for pretty much all my life. I very rarely got ill, and can’t remember the last time I had a cold or virus of any kind – or at least not that lasted longer than about 12 hours. So it came as a bit of a surprise when I started feeling run down and tired all the time, and I was even finding it hard to get up in the morning. I’d been a regular visitor to the hospital for test after test, but each one showed that there was nothing medically wrong with me.
I was visiting a chiropractor one day for an old “war wound”, and she intimated that I could do with going on a detox diet, and generally learning about how to detox the body with a view to changing my eating habits. It looked like detoxing had a lot of health benefits, so took it upon myself to learn as much about the process as possible, and why so many alternative and complementary health practitioners recommend regular detox dieting and in particular the 7 day detox diet so avidly.
She also hinted to me to try a relaxing foot detox. I now treat myself to a foot massage at least once a week, but if you don’t have one of those, the detox foot pads can work just as well – but with the patches you don’t get a relaxing foot massage at the same time
Here’s what I learnt to detox your body.
Drink water or herbal teas
One of the most important things you need to is drink lots of water while you are following a detox diet as it will help your body flush out all the toxins. It also helps to prevent constipation, stops water retention (believe it or not), and improves your complexion. Your goal should be to drink about 8 glasses (or 2 liters) of water each day, although you will need more in hot weather or on days when you are exercising.
As a rule of thumb, aim to drink an extra half liter of water for every hour you exercise. Choose still mineral water, or tap water that has been filtered, or boiled and then cooled. Ideally drink water that is at room temperature. Herbal teas are a great alternative in helping your reach your daily quote – loose leaf is better than tea bags as it hasn’t been processed as much. Green tea, horsetail, camomile and roibosch (or redbush) are particularly good as their hidden ingredients help the detox process. Roibosch and green tea has other health benefits too as it is very high in OPC antioxidants.
Is Organic Better
When detoxing, there’s no need to go completely organic, because organic is usually much more expensive, but if you can afford to stretch to buying a few organic products it will be a great help.
Don’t panic if you can’t find organic foods in your area. Just eating plenty of fresh fruits and veg is more important, whether they are organic or not, instead of eating too few of them. Having said that, there are some very beneficial health reasons of having as much as possible of organic produce on a healthy detox diet.
The use of artificial chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers are not allowed when growing organic foods, and therefore they are much healthier being free from toxins and man made chemicals. Although it’s a controversial area, there is growing evidence that the ‘cocktail’ effect of toxins from man made chemicals and bug sprays overtime may cause health problems in the future.
By comparison, organic foods are processed much less than non-organic. The big benefits of this are that they have no genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and free from artificial preservatives. Certain organic foods taste better and have more flavor.
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