Jul 08 2009
10 Foods That Detox The Body
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When it comes to detoxing your body, there are many techniques you can follow and supplements you can take. But, the best way, is to eat lots of foods that detox the body. Below is a list of detox foods that I thought would be an great addition to everybody’s diet.
1. Fruits
Fruits are extremely high in liquid-content, helping the body wash out toxins. They are also very easy to digest and are high in antioxidants, nutrients, fiber and many important vitamins like vitamin C.
2. Green Foods
When you are ready to detox your body, fill your refrigerator with blue green algae, barley, wheatgrass, kale, spinach, spirulina, alfalfa, chard, arugula or other organic leafy greens. These plants will help give a chlorophyll-boost to your digestive tract.
Chlorophyll rids the body of harmful environmental toxins from smog, heavy metals, herbicides, cleaning products and pesticides. They also aid the liver in detoxification.
3. Lemons, Oranges & Limes
These citrus-wonders aid the body in flushing out toxins, as well as jump-start the digestive tract with enzymatic processes. They also aid the liver in its cleansing processes. To increase detoxification, start each morning with a warm glass of lemon water.
Remember, vitamin C is one of the best detox vitamins around, as it transforms toxins into digestible material.
4. Garlic
This pungent bulb stimulates the liver in producing detoxification enzymes that help filter out toxic residues in the digestive system. Adding sliced or cooked garlic to any dish, will help aid any detox diet.
5. Broccoli Sprouts
Extremely high in antioxidants, broccoli sprouts can help stimulate the detoxification enzymes in the digestive tract like none-other. The sprouts are actually more effective than the fully-grown vegetable, despite the picture on the right.
6. Green Tea
Packed full of antioxidants, green tea not only washes toxins out of the system through its liquid content, but also contains a special type of antioxidant called catechins, known to increase liver function.
7. Mung Beans
The mighty mung bean has been used by Ayurvedic doctors for thousands of years. It is incredibly easy to digest, and absorbs toxic residue on the sides of the intestinal walls.
8. Raw Vegetables
Best for juicing detox regimens or eaten raw: Onions, carrots, artichoke, asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, kale, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, garlic, beet, turmeric, and oregano. The combination of these foods will help your liver purge toxins during the cleansing process. These are high in naturally occurring sulphur and glutathione. Sulphur helps the liver detoxify harmful chemicals.
9. Seeds & Nuts
Incorporate more of the easily digestible seeds and nuts into your diet. This include flaxseed, pumpkin seeds, almonds, walnuts, hemp seeds, sesame seeds, chia seeds, Siberian cedar nuts and sunflower seeds. While detoxing, avoid nut butters.
10. Omega-3 Oils
Use hemp, flax-seed, avocado or olive oils while detoxing. This will help lubricate the intestinal walls, allowing the toxins to be absorbed by the oil, and eliminated by the body.
Other Detox Methods:
Do you have any suggestions for foods that detox the body? If so, please drop them in the comment section below. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
~Dr. G
February 25th, 2010 at 1:32 am
Hey thats a proper way of presenting 10 ways of natural body detox. very informative. Our body contain 2 pounds of toxic substance everyday. Fasting on juice is very good but it should be fresh. Life Wellness Centre offers advanced whole body detox retreats ranging from 5 days, 10 days and 14 days.
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January 28th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
“Why is it, Dr Axe, that God has decided NOT to share some of that health-giving sustenance with the 20 children that die from poverty every minute?”
Actually, that has more to do with how we humans
distribute our food supply, and how we ravage the
earth, than it does with anything else. Me thinks those
numbers could be radically changed for the better,
in an enlightened world.
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January 12th, 2010 at 5:22 am
Yeah, the detox diet makes me think of Lindsay Lohan and not wanting to eat. Remember when she was anorexic… That was disgusting. Maybe the media made her look worst, but she was skinny as a stick.
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December 28th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Body detox helps you to detox your body and lose weight.apart of that we live in a world, which is ravaged by pollution a complete body detox is the best solution for us!
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December 15th, 2009 at 5:53 am
Hi,
What an incredible website and article. I love this site as it provides so much in depth advice that is really true!
All of the foods you listed are perfect to help detox the body!
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December 9th, 2009 at 5:02 am
From articel above we know that natural food can detox our body, thx
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October 26th, 2009 at 6:55 am
I prefer to have fruits and green vegetables which are best for health.
thanks for providing wonderful information about health and antioxidant. your blog contains plenty of information related to health. nice work !!
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October 24th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
blueberries? I thought they were an antitixant?
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October 5th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Really great. Although I know the about the correlation of healthy nutrition and feeling well, sometimes I forgot about it. Today it was the right day to remember me.
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October 2nd, 2009 at 9:36 pm
“Dr. Josh Axe says:
August 12th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Great list! I love how God has given us everything we need to stay healthy.”
Why is it, Dr Axe, that God has decided NOT to share some of that health-giving sustenance with the 20 children that die from poverty every minute?
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August 31st, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Love these Whole Foods! We list the top in each category on our website… and have lots of recipes to go with them!
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August 19th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Thank you for this great list. That’s about what we (humans and pets at my home) eat! …. and we all sure need it! We just need to add more mung beans and green tea.
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August 18th, 2009 at 6:24 am
The health benefits of green tea have been found and reported in numerous research. Green tea was found to lower the risk of cancer, infective intestine diseases and liver infections. Green tea helps lower cholesterol, assists with weight loss and strengthens cognitive abilities.
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August 12th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Great list! I love how God has given us everything we need to stay healthy.
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August 8th, 2009 at 2:09 am
I’m a great believer in keeping things simple. Complex ’supplement programs’ pale into insignificance compared to the pure goodness of natural foods like you’ve listed above. Apparently the humble avocado is only food source we human could live on entirely (not that we’d want to but you get the point
) Great article – here’s to the natural health revolution!
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August 3rd, 2009 at 4:41 am
Very cute information. Simple food diets which take care of detox of the body.
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July 30th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
question, who does your newsletters? I like the format.
Thanks,
Joyce
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:17 am
One that should be at the top of every list is aloe . Imean the whole leaf that you can now buy at most food stores. It really keeps the body from drying out inside.That slippery gel sinks into every cell ,and the water and suppleness it gives tothe skin, hair, joints, you name it supplies too much to rember. google, aloe. Itransformed my skin and renewed my body with aloe,and the energy it gives is amazing. I make a smoothie with the leaf, fruit ,ice in a blender, there are many recipes on line. i am
so happy to have found aloe .you will feel the supplness .it must be the whole leaf not the junky juice sold in stores.look for fat leaves. videos on line will show you how to peel them.
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July 29th, 2009 at 3:31 am
The informative article is a best bet for reading and also easy to follow with easily available fruits ,vegetables and spices.It can do wonders to our body and boost our health and bring down our medicals bills and tension associated with it.Please continue your good work for the betterment of humanity.Thank you.
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July 15th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Good piece of info
Amazingly I like all of them. So no probs… but ahh… to really detox, i got to only take these right? No normal meals and stuff?
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Mike James replied on July 23rd, 2009:
I’ve also heard that prune juice is great for detoxing..is that true?
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