SO WHY DETOX?

Have you ever washed greasy dishes without hot water or dish soap? The dishes don’t get clean, do they? When toxic metals and chemical food additives get inside your body, it takes a strong "cleanser" to scrub your body clean from the inside out. The combination of vitamins and minerals through detoxification work in this fashion to remove toxins from your body tissues and body organs, from your water stores, fat deposits, and within your bloodstream. Natural cleansing is critical to remove body toxins, and protects from re-depositing them somewhere else in the body.

The Rejuvenate 30 Day Group Detox Program starts October 10th! You will learn how to identify the toxic sources in your life (internal and external) and how to eat right for a lifetime.

IDENTIFY, REMOVE, AND RESTORE
The basic philosophy behind any effective detox program is to identify, remove, and restore.

Identify what toxins are at the root of your health problems.
Identify = analyze diet, lifestyle and symptoms

Remove the toxins by cleansing your body.
Remove = detoxification

Restore lost nutrients.
Restore = nutritional supplements

Like pealing the layers off an onion, as each layer is removed through detoxification, the underlying layers reveal what’s really behind disease symptoms. The deeper you go toward removing the ‘core’ of the problem, healing becomes long-term reality.

TEN STEPS TO DETOXIFICATION

Begin with detoxing your body of all residual chemical toxins and see if any adverse health symptoms remain. Try these steps for yourself, and within 30 days your symptoms should improve if not completely disappear.

The Ten Steps:
1. Remove all chemicals from your diet.
2. Learn to ‘read’ your body. Begin recording any health changes.
3. Record your diet and lifestyle patterns over time.
4. Be happy with yourself.
5. Detoxify.
6. Restore depleted nutrients.
7. Exercise and get plenty of rest.
8. Eat 75% raw foods at every meal.
9. Drink water, water, water.
10. Get control of your life.

Do not overlook the fact that healing from disease and illness takes faith, personal strength, and perseverance. Curing illness and degenerative diseases with a mind-body approach might be considered old-fashioned and ineffective when compared to today’s high tech prescriptions, but it’s essential that human beings remember that the roots of disease and their cures are as old-fashioned as the body itself, and healing begins with SELF.

Good nutrition works.

* Take the time to determine at which point you may have gotten off track nutritionally and what ‘toxins’ you have been exposed to.

* Detox your body of all environmental and food chemicals you have been exposed to throughout your lifetime.

* Restore depleted nutrients through proper supplements and whole foods.

Toxins are at the root of most diseases, and once they are removed, health and well being return. An effective detoxification plan removes the source of disease symptoms, such as aspartame or radiation poisoning, detoxifies toxic residue from the body, and replaces specific nutrients to regain a state of wellness.

For more information visit the Rejuvenate 30 Day Food Based Detox Program.

ABOUT ANGELA PIFER, CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST

Angela Pifer is a Certified Nutritionist, with a MS in nutrition from Bastyr University, in private practice, specializing in food sensitivities, emotional eating, digestive conditions & weight loss. She founded Nutrition Northwest Co in 2005; the premier provider of sound nutrition and wellness advice in the Northwest with offices in Seattle and Kirkland. Angela has a unique approach to helping her patients create new healthier habits: offering customized nutrition programs that inspire & educate along with a high degree of support & accountability to help them become fit & fabulous from the inside out.

Whichever you choose, please note that you do not have to pay top dollars for pills and potions to help you through this. There are some very simple lifestyle improvements (there is that word again) that will improve the overall functioning of your digestion, liver and help ‘cleanse’ your colon.

Here are seven easy ways to improve the long term functioning of your digestion, liver and colon that will benefit your body for years to come:

1)      Select three to five fruits per day –good for snacks

2)      Always combine complex carbohydrates with proteins to help maintain blood sugar levels      Grains should be mixed with another protein, such as tofu, to improve their protein availability to your body. 

3)      Limit meats to three days per week, and use vegetable proteins, such as grains and beans (in combination).

4)      Select at least two different vegetables for each meal.  Concentrate on the orange/yellow vegetables which are rich in beta-carotene, which will be very liver-friendly.

5)      Consider eating beets daily. Coleslaws are a fabulous way to increase the variety of your vegetables. These can be made in batches and can last up to two days.

6)      Select a fat or oil or seed or nut with at least two of your meals. One teaspoon of oil or more.  Nuts and seeds make excellent snacks and are easy to package and carry in plastic bags.

7)      To prime the digestive organs every morning, take one tablespoonful of lemon juice, a pinch of ginger powder and put it in one to two cups of hot water.  If you prefer a cold drink you may choose a glass of room temperature filtered water with a lemon slice.