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Are detox plans worth doing?

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Detox plans are all the rage at this time of year. A New Year – a new you! I get it. And especially after a period of overindulgence over the Christmas holidays, many people are ready to tone it back and get on track. Eat more healthily. exercise more, drink more water and so on… 

I’m not saying that doing detox plans is a bad thing. In fact eating a more healthy diet with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as abstaining or at least reducing alcohol is something I would agree with.  [Read more…] about Are detox plans worth doing?

Supplements or diet – which is better to detox your body?

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Cleansing or detoxifying the body is a central healing concept in traditional medicine. At one time this might have meant extreme treatments aimed at elimination. Stimulating purging or puking on an almost heroic scale. Now, thank goodness, popular detox diets usually promote gentle elimination and detoxification strategies. But what is detoxification? Do we need to detoxify? And, if so what is the best way to detox your body?

Normal body functions create waste products in the cells and tissues of the body. The body removes these wastes so that they don’t build up. Sometimes the body must simplify the waste products to remove them. Thus, it detoxifies them by changing them to simpler substances, for elimination. [Read more…] about Supplements or diet – which is better to detox your body?