Practiced for centuries by many cultures around the world — including ayurvedic and Chinese medicine systems — detoxification is about resting, cleaning and nourishing the body from the inside out. By removing and eliminating toxins, then feeding your body with healthy nutrients, detoxifying can help protect you from disease and renew your ability to maintain optimum health.
Key Foods to Detox (and other helpful benefits)
- Cauliflower: cauliflower is an antioxidant and can reduce inflammation
- Broccoli: broccoli is another anti-inflammatory and helps neutralize and rest your system
- Turnip Greens: detoxifies and also a know cancer fighter
- Ginger & Garlic: Ginger and garlic are good friends to the liver because they help it get rid of free radicals that are built up in the body.
- Lentils: Benefits digestion and helps lower colesteral
- Grapefruit
- Cucumber: Helps flush toxins and restores alkaline balance
- Oats: Oats may not only improve immune defense detoxify, but studies suggest they can also help control appetite and reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and lower cholesterol
- Sunflower Seeds: Sunflowers are an exceptional source of vitamin E, which plays a very important role in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Vitamin E is an antioxidant that helps keep free radicals from oxidizing cholesterol. Only when oxidized is cholesterol able to stick to blood vessel walls and cause atherosclerosis, which can lead to blocked arteries, heart attack, or stroke. You can get over ninety percent of the daily value for vitamin E in only a quarter of a cup of sunflower seeds.
- Hemp Seeds: Use hemp, avocado, olive, or flax seed oil while detoxing. This will help lubricate the intestinal walls, allowing the toxins to be absorbed by the oil, and eliminated by the body.
- Water: Drink plenty of water to help eliminate toxins and help your body process what is in your system.
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