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Detox Cleansing With Juice Recipes

 

Detox Cleansing With Juice Recipes

 

Hollywood is in love with using juice recipes for detox cleansing. This is their remedy for when they need to lose weight and look their best quickly. While such diets are controversial advocates say that this type of detox cleansing is safe as long as your doctor knows about it and you don’t do it for any longer than 3 days at a time.

The beginning of the year is a great time to try this detox cleansing with juice recipes. This will help you get rid of bad habits like drinking too much caffeine or eating too much fatty or sugary food. Such diets can also help you create healthier habits. This is entirely attributed to Dr. Cathy Wong who’s a naturopath at the American College.

 

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A detox cleansing does have some health benefits over the short term, especially if you’re feeling bloated or sluggish, your skin is breaking out, you’re dependent upon caffeine or you’re craving junk food. This is because juice recipes can help to eliminate toxins from your body so that you’ll feel better internally and look better externally. However, you don’t want to starve yourself or feel deprived while doing detox cleansing.

Of course, there are a good number of skeptics. They say that your body already has built in detoxifiers so you don’t need any cleansing. These skeptics also warn that you shouldn’t expect any lasting weight loss.

Ultimately it’s up to you to decide whether detox cleansing with juice recipes is right for you. If you decide you’d like to do such a cleansing without creating your own juice recipes you should know that there are some brands readily available. They are part of the Blueprint Cleanse and are 100% USDA certified organic. They’re bottled with a high pressure, heatless process that will last up to 2 weeks in your refrigerator.

 

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Five Tips For A Positive Mental Attitude This Winter

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The weather might be picking up a little bit but we’ve still got a long wait until summer gets here, it’s going to be a while before the daylight hours stretch out into the evening and the sun is up before us in the morning. With the excitement of the holidays over it can seem like a lacklustre time of year and it’s easy to start feeling down or just a bit low but there’s plenty of simple and easy changes you can make to your life to pull that mood back around and rediscover that spring in your step.

Regulate Sleep Patterns

Sleep patterns can be a good indication of your mental state, too much sleep or not enough sleep or even erratic sleep patterns can be one of the major signs of depression. It’s natural for our brain to want a little more sleep in the autumn when the days start getting shorter but by the New Year our body has adjusted and you should be getting seven to eight hours sleep every night. If you’re finding it hard to drift off at night try writing down the things that are on your mind and doing a relaxing activity like reading or a word search to help your brain wind down. Try not to spend too much time lying in bed at the weekends, if you can make sure you’re going to bed and waking up at the same time every day to help your mind and your body get into a routine.

Exercise

We all know the health benefits of regular exercise, it’s good for the heart and it helps with weight management. It’s also very good for people with any type of depression. When we exercise our brains release serotonin and endorphins which create a natural high. This high can also be found by eating too much sugar too quickly but the buzz you get from exercise will last longer and won’t have the sharp come down you experience from a sugar low. If you are feeling down this time of year try getting at least a few hours of regular exercise every week, whether it’s getting off the bus a couple of stops early and walking a bit more or getting down the swimming baths one evening a week and your overall mood will soon start to improve as well as your overall health.

Healthy Eating

Healthy eating goes hand in hand with regular exercise, we know we’re meant to eat healthy and we know the difference between food that’s good for us and food that isn’t. Junk food, ready meals and anything that’s process and full of additives and E numbers can leave us feeling lethargic and sluggish. You’re also going to get a sugar crash if you eat too much junk food so try swapping any snack foods for healthier alternatives and make as many of your meals as possible from scratch so you know what’s going into them. If time can be an issue or your simple don’t feel like preparing a meal when you come home at night try cooking at the weekend and storing your dinner for the week in the freezer or investing in a slow cooker so everything cooks while you’re out each day.

Light Therapy

The science behind SAD suggests it’s the lack of light that brings our mood down. There’s very little natural light this time of year and for those of us that spend most our day in an artificially lit office we don’t see much day light at all. Research indicates that being exposed to short bursts of intense light can improve our mood. Unfortunately standing under the florescent lights in the office don’t have quite the same effect but you can buy a light box that emits almost three times the intensity of natural light on a dull day, obviously you wouldn’t look right into the light but facing it with your eyes closed two to three times a day will increase your overall mood and well being.

Try Something New

It’s often the thought of monotony that gets us down this time of year, everything we were looking forward to has passed and we’ve got a few months until the weather really starts to pick up. If you’re feeling like you’re stuck in a rut find a new hobby or activity, take an evening course, learn a new language, start going to a workout class, find something that appeals to you and make that change. Before long this new hobby will come with its own goals and points to look forward to and this will be enough to outweigh any lacklustre feelings you have related to the time of year.

To help bring a healthy attitude into your home JTX Fitness have a selection of great value home gym equipment including cross trainers, vibration plates and cheap motorised treadmills

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Detox Your Diet: Detoxing Your Body

Detoxing your body has become a widespread focus among many health enthusiasts over the past few decades. As our surrounding environment becomes more and more toxic, people are more concerned with the threat of toxins from various sources and, in turn, result to a wide variety of practices in hopes of detoxing their bodies.

This common worry may be warranted given our current environment, but I’m always amazed by how often the largest source of toxins is completely omitted. That being, of course, our day to day diets.

Holistic Detox

There are hundreds of different options for detoxing your body, but if you’re going for an effective and holistic detox, the best thing you can do is simply to stop putting those toxins in. I see far too many people concerned with smaller issues like trace metals or chemicals in products while completely ignoring harmful substances in the food they eat every day. The bottom line is, if you want to get the toxins out, you’ve got to stop putting them in.

A Detoxic Diet

Making your diet detoxic first involves some simple things that most people know would be a good idea. For instance, removing fast food and junk food from their diets. However, given the state of today’s food manufacturing, this is only a small step in the right direction. If you go into a supermarket today and check the labels on things you buy, you’ll find much of the same stuff you find in fast food restaurants and junk food.

Pick up a loaf of whole grain bread and it’s likely to contain the same vegetable oils used by fast food chains. Pick up some BBQ sauce or a “healthy” antioxidant drink and one of the main ingredients will be high fructose corn syrup. The worst aspects of the food industry have crept into every corner of the supermarket, even the so called health foods.

As a detox enthusiast, it’s not only important to cleanse your system but to pay attention what you put into it on a daily basis. If you can get your diet handled, there won’t be nearly as much bad stuff to flush out.

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