Weight Loss and Detoxification

Detoxification is the process of removing the toxic chemicals or poisons that have found ways of entering our bodies. These toxins can come from a variety of sources including the food and drinks we eat, the impurities of the air we breathe, or from substances like alcohol or drugs. Even drinking water, a beverage most people consider to be more healthy than anything else, can often be filled with unhealthy and harmful toxic substances.

Detoxification can take place in different ways and at various levels of severity. Someone who has become addicted to substances like nicotine or alcohol must detoxify their bodies by withdrawing from the harmful substances their bodies crave. The process of detoxification will retrain their bodies not to need those bad substances any longer. The harmful toxins and substances will eventually leave their bodies.

Toxins are harmful chemicals affecting your body. They are all around you (in your food, water, air) and inside you (as waste products of metabolism). Your body eliminates most toxins and the rest are stored within body fat.

These stored toxins combined with stress can affect your health in very unpleasant ways:

• weight gain
• headaches
• feelings of fatigue and weakness
• heartburn
• sore muscles and skin
• joint pains

These symptoms will fade when you start detox. Well, you may feel some discomfort in the very first days, but that is a normal body reaction.
You may feel headache or sore muscles, but that is because the toxins are released faster then your body can eliminate them. These symptoms will not occur again if you detox regularly.

Detox and Weight Loss

Detoxification is the process of releasing and expelling the stored toxins through the elimination organs of your body - the intestines, liver, lungs, kidneys and skin.

Detox Diets are dietary nutritious plans that use detoxification, which helps you lose weight by cleansing out your body and improving your metabolism

Detox and Disease Prevention

Detoxification is recommended for improving resistance to disease, mental state, digestion, strengthens the organs involved in detox

Detox Diets can help prevent serious diseases such as cancer, ADD, ADHD, chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple chemical sensitivities, as well as treat heart disease, fibromyalgia, autoimmune disease.

Detox Foods

Detox Diets recommend consumption of foods that are beneficial for your health and essential to weight loss - organic foods, fruits and vegetables.

You should drink purified water and cut back on processed foods, as well as give up alcohol and smoking.

Detox Diets are quite restrictive and once you start a detox diet, you should follow it strictly. Detox Diets are safe, but you should consult your doctor before starting.

So, a good weight loss program must begin with detoxification. Without detoxification, there will be no permanent possibility of sustained weight loss. This is the main reason that many diet plans fail.

There has to be a three way process to be followed to accomplish this detoxification.

1. Remove toxins: This is to be achieved through the breath, through the excretory organs and through the skin.

2. Burn fat: This is to be achieved by increased metabolism, by way of exercises and specific fat burning food additives.

3. Make your body inhospitable to excess fat by optimizing the functioning of the fat burning organs of the body viz. Thyroid, Liver etc. Yoga will be very beneficial in achieving this.

If these principles are followed then anyone and any system of dieting can achieve success.

By Galia Ivanova, Hallidae Thomason & Paramesh Waran

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