9/3/09

Why Detox?


Do you know why detox dieting will help you achieve a healthy, vibrant body that feels and looks good more effectively than any conventional diet plan? Because most of your unhealthy weight gain, chronic diseases and unpleasant symptoms are caused by toxic build up in your body.


Just like your car needs a regular oil change to run well mile after mile, your body needs regular cleansing to feel well year after year. A gentle customized detox diet will alleviate many of your nagging symptoms, help you lose weight and give you more energy, clearer thinking, healthier skin and better digestion.


TOXINS AND OBESITY

Obesity and weight problems are not always related to what we eat or how much we exercise. New research points to the role that environmental toxins play in causing weight gain and preventing weight loss. That’s why learning to avoid toxins and to detoxify is a critical component to long-term health and weight loss.

What Makes Us Toxic?
Toxins in the broadest sense, is the sum of total of our poor diet, chronic stress, and environmental pollutants that overload and poison our bodies and minds. This includes toxic foods such as sugar, high fructose corn syrup, trans fats, food additives and preservatives, pesticides, hormones and antibiotics in our food supply and water supply, as well as mercury, lead and other heavy metals. Beware too from the toxins in your medicine cabinet. Certain drugs can have toxic effects and cause weight gain.

It also includes toxic thoughts, behaviors and beliefs that keep us chronically stressed. These thoughts produce a flood of hormones, such as cortisol, that promote weight gain around the middle, increase our blood sugar and blood pressure and even kill brain cells.

Detoxification is a natural and critical part of our biology. It is the process of eliminating toxins from your body and your life. By eliminating the major sources of toxins in your life -> addictive habits such as coffee, sugar, alcohol, processed foods, fast food, junk food, trans fats and HFCS, and reducing toxic stress, your body can renew and rejuvenate itself.


Take away the things that make you toxic and inflamed. Provide your body with foods and activities that help you detoxify and cool inflammation. Your body does the rest automatically. It has a natural ability to find balance and heal once you stop doing things that throw it off balance and provide things that put it back in balance. The real trick is that the same things that make people sick make them fat. In fact, being overweight is actually a symptom of an underlying health problem.

In summary:

-Toxins can cause weight gain and prevent weight loss.
-Toxins slow your metabolic rate, lower your thyroid hormones, increase inflammation, slow down fat and calorie burning, and damage your appetite control system.
-Sugar, stress, lack of exercise, toxins and food allergies all cause inflammation.
-Inflammation causes weight gain and prevents weight loss.
-Healing your digestive system can reduce the severity and number of your food allergies over the long term.


You can successfully eliminate toxins from your body through diet, exercise, supplements and sweating.If you want to enhance your detoxification process, I highly recommend the book "THE ULTRASIMPLE DIET" by Mark Hyman. Is a step-by-step program that gives you everything you need to know to completely free your system of these harmful chemicals. You can start now by downloading for free the “Ultrasimple Diet” guide of 184 pages which explains what to buy and what to do for a 1 week program of detoxification. Here is the link:

http://www.ultrawellness.com/files/USD-Guide.pdf

Most of us have no idea how our choice of foods and our behaviors influence how we feel. We have the power to transform our life forever by choosing to work with our body, rather than against it.

Taken from the amazing book "The ultrasimple diet" by Mark Hyman.


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