The Need To Detoxify The Body
I used to be quite amazed at the indifference of the medical profession back in the 1980's; indifference, that is, to the likely affects of endless streams of different chemicals being fed, breathed into, drunk and absorbed by the human body in a modern country like England. Our bodies were being bombarded by hundreds, maybe thousands, of different chemicals; we were becoming toxin reservoirs. I was wondering then, how can our bodies cope? How can we detoxify our bodies on a regular basis sufficiently well to help our immune systems keep us in reasonably good health?
That indifference was shared by governments, and companies who profited from the use and distribution of these chemicals. If anyone ever queried the safety of a particular chemical, the response would be taken from the library of stock answers. That chemical had been tested, and not shown to have any side effects in small quantities. Of course, we did not know how thorough those tests were, and whether any results had been massaged in any way. The particular chemical questioned was not a toxin in small quantities, and we only ever consumed it in small quantities.
That indifference was also shared by the water companies. My whole view of chemical pollutants, and the scale of the problem we were dealing with, was changed when I requested a test of my water supply. We had always been told our drinking water was safe, and although I was interested in health matters at the time, I had always just accepted that. It was, after all, in foreign countries you had to be careful about drinking water.
When I received the test results from the water company, I was in for a shock. I was expecting our water to consist of water, H2O. The reason I had asked for the test was to check for dangerous bacteria, as I had noticed a high incidence of stomach sickness along our road, and it had become repetitive. My own family was not prone to stomach sickness and vomiting, yet we had all been hit. fortunately for us, we were affected just the once, but with others we knew of, it had been repeated; the vomitting stopped, and then returned. My request for the test of the water was a precaution.
The test results came back, in the form of a computer print out. It was the old large size computer print out paper; this was the 1980's remember. If you have never seen, such computer paper, then I can assure you, it is big. The results, you would have expected, should have occupied a tiny corner of one sheet of this paper. But no, it not only filled the first page but went well into the second.
What was in the report? It was a long list of chemicals that had been found in the water, the water we not only used for laundry, bathing and washing dishes, but the water we had been drinking for years. I scanned through the list. Many of the chemicals I had not even heard of, but there were quite a few I had. I recognised them as pesticides and fertilizers that were used not just by farmers but by gardeners, and regarded as dangerous if consumed. Of course, that danger level was if you drank a lot of the pesticide; that was the assumption anyway.
The water company included a brief covering letter, saying that all the chemicals in the water were at safe levels. Fortunately, I am blessed with something that governments and such companies lack, and that is common sense. While each individual chemical may have been put through some sort of flimsy test, they had absolutely no way of knowing either what the cumulative affects would be through long term consumption in water, and what the combination with other chemicals would cause to the human body.
Common sense could also be applied further, and did not require any scientific tests. The human immune system had evolved at a snail pace over tens of thousands of years until, suddenly, in the 20th century it was being pummelled from all angles by toxins it was not designed to cope with, and had not had a chance to evolve to cope with. It the same time, nutrients were being stripped out of food by processing, and the immune systems of millions of people were weak at a time they needed to be super strong. You do not need to be a scientist to observe that, and make your own conclusions.
The day I received that report 20 years ago was the last time I drank tap water in England without filtering out the chemicals. For the past 5 years I have been living in the Philippines, and being tropical with the possibility of water borne disease, it is wise to drink purified water only. So, in all that time I have been spared the bombardment of chemicals from the water supply, but not from the air we breathe and some of the food we eat, and some of the things we put on our skins. No doubt, I still accumulate toxins, and would still benefit from detoxifying.
The article below by Margo Courtney looks at those toxins we accumulate in our bodies in the modern western world.
Juice Detox Miracle for Health - Part 1 -
The Toxins We Accumulate
Do you feel tired, sluggish or run down? Is getting through each day a major task? Are you constantly annoyed by little things wrong with you?
Feeling fit, healthy, terrific and full of energy and vitality is the ideal state for us all. But for how many of us is this a reality?
Usually, we feel run down, tired or stressed, coping with the beginnings of a cold etc.
While we put up with these symptoms as normal, we really shouldn’t put up with anything less than 100% optimal health.
Through ingestion of foreign, toxic substances from the way we live, toxins accumulate in our bodies over the years, slowing us down and stressing our internal systems. These are some of the sources of toxins we come into contact with everyday.
We breathe in polluted air
The use of growth hormones in animals
Myriads of chemicals and additives in the foods we eat
Toxins in our drinking water supply eg alumimium is used to take the cloudiness out of drinking water, and copper pipes are used to transport water.
Chemicals in skin creams, suntan lotions, cosmetics, anti-perspirants, etc are absorbed into our bodies through the skin.
Metals from body piercing
Metals from teeth fillings- amalgam contains mercury
Aerating agents in food, and antacids both contain aluminium
Cooking ware – stainless steel, aluminium, teflon
Using alumimium foil to cook food
Widespread use of pesticides
Smoking cigarettes
Adrenalines present in animals slaughtered in abbattoirs
Prescription drugs such as antibiotics
Over the counter drugs
Chemical fertilizers and anti-fungal agents
Chemical and oil spills, pollution in our groundwater
We also create our own toxins when putrefied food that is unable to be fully digested, accumulates in the digestive tract.
And the list goes on.
Toxins are stored in our bodies, in ever increasing amounts, because if we do not have a healthy diet and live a healthy lifestyle, our bodies do not have the capability to eliminate them naturally. They continue to accumulate, and what we take as a sign of getting older and slowing down is actually our toxin levels growing so we feel more and more lethargic.
So while avoiding processed foods, drinking only pure water and buying organic produce, for example, can help reduce the level of toxins we ingest, we cannot avoid them altogether. The entire food chain is building up toxins.
There also exists an amount of toxins in our bodies already accumulated over the years, slowing us down and contributing to our ailments.
As technology in our world increases, so do the level of toxins. Read about the Warning Signs That Your Body Has Accumulated Toxins in Part 2 of this article : Juice Detox Miracle for Health - Part 2 – Warning Signs That Your Body has Accumulated Toxins
Read about the Benefits of Detoxing in Part 3 of this article : Juice Detox Miracle for Health – Part 3 – Benefits of Detoxing
For a healthy, lifestyle diet/food system, visit http://www.juice-detox.com The plan is designed to help your body detoxify – rapidly to start, then slowly to gently continue the detoxification process. Your health will improve while your energy and vitality increase and you will also easily reach and maintain your ideal weight.
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Juice Detox Miracle for Health - Part 2 – Warning Signs That Your Body has Accumulated Toxins
Part 1 of this article (Juice Detox Miracle for Health - Part 1 - The Toxins We Accumulate) talks about the many ways we are subjected to toxins in our everyday lives.
Detoxing is about restoring the body’s balance by eliminating the accumulated toxins that interfere with our bodies’ natural systems. Our bodies were not designed to contain metals and poisons. Our internal organs and systems do a pretty good job of processing food, fuelling the body and eliminating waste. But accumulated toxins put an extra strain on our bodies. Our bodies are working so hard to eliminate them, or work around them, that there is little energy left over for us. We tire easily, and may feel unwell or ‘not right’. We may have serious illnesses. We may just suffer from (and sometimes put up with) minor maladies.
A lot of us do not even realise there is anything ‘wrong’ with us – until AFTER a detox, and the differences then become very clear.
SIGNS THAT YOUR BODY HAS ACCUMULATED TOXINS : Anything that gets you down is a sign that the body is out of balance. All of these ailments are warning signs and symptoms of an out-of-balance body :
Poor complexion – spots, pimples, blemishes
Mouth ulcers
Chapped lips
Itching or sore eyes
Irregular bowel movements or constipation
Tiredness, fatigue and lethargy
Dull hair
Weak nails
Headaches or migraines
Menstrual cramps
General unwell and run-down feeling
Sleeping problems
Lowered resistance to infections
Heartburn
Bad breath
Muscular pain
Rheumatism
Cold perspiration
Bronchitis
Chronic catarrh
Depression
Consider a detox as a springclean, or a cleansing for your insides. Eliminating toxins through detoxification can improve both short-term and long-term health.
Read about the many benefits of juice detoxing in the article Juice Detox Miracle for Health - Part 3 – Benefits of Detoxing
For a healthy, lifestyle diet/food system, visit http://www.juice-detox.com The plan is designed to help your body detoxify – rapidly to start, then slowly to gently continue the detoxification process. Your health will improve while your energy and vitality increase and you will also easily reach and maintain your ideal weight.
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Part 1 of this article (Juice Detox Miracle for Health - Part 1 - The Toxins We Accumulate) talks about the many ways we are subjected to toxins in our everyday lives. Part 2 of this article (Juice Detox Miracle for Health - Part 2 – Warning Signs That Your Body has Accumulated Toxins) lists the many maladies and conditions that result from over-toxicity.
The elimination of years of accumulated toxins in your body by juice-detoxing can greatly improve your health. Many maladies and conditions that we suffer, and take for granted as part of the stresses of life and ageing, are in fact, the results of over-toxicity and can be easily reversed without drugs.
Juice detoxing is natural, healthy and very effective. Detoxification products are unnecessary, and unless natural, will introduce even more toxins into your system. Fruit and vegetables, when freshly juiced, not only act as a natural eliminator, they supply vitamins, minerals and nutrients to increase your health even more.
1. GREATLY INCREASED ENERGY AND VITALITY – your body no longer has to work so hard to process food, so more energy for you and your activities. You will feel terrific!
2. YOU WON’T NEED AS MUCH SLEEP – your body is processing much faster, using less energy, so needs less down time to recover.
3. WAKE UP IN THE MORNING FEELING REFRESHED – the sleep you will get is much more restful.
4. CURING ADDICTIONS – many chemicals in foods are addictive, however, cravings for these can disappear once eliminated.
5. SLOWS DOWN THE AGEING PROCESS – Since your body no longer needs to work so hard, there is no longer such a strain on its systems
6. WEIGHT LOSS – initially this is through water loss, however, a healthy diet and gradual detox to continue the elimination process will automatically reduce weight to its ideal proportions. Juice detoxing also increases your metabolic rate and helps to maintain your ideal weight.
7. CLEARER SKIN – our skin is an elimination vehicle, causing pimples etc, so there will be far fewer toxins to eliminate after a detox.
8. DECREASED HEALTH PROBLEMS – many of the ailments listed above will disappear, and without medication, thereby reducing even further the amount of toxins being ingested. Eliminating toxins can also result in positive results for major diseases.
9. PREVENTION OF DISEASES – a clean internal body system is far less likely to suffer from heart and other diseases.
10. INCREASED EFFICIENCY AND CLEARER MENTAL PROCESSES – elimination of toxins allows the chemical processes in your brain to operate at optimum levels
11. MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF NUTRIENTS - juicing is a way to take in massive amounts of nutrients – far more than if we simply ate these foods. How long would it take to eat a bag of apples? Juicing them would produce 3 or 4 drinks and take only minutes to consume.
12. RAPID ASSIMILATION OF NUTRIENTS - the juicing process breaks down the fruit and vegetables into an easily digestible state. Your system can assimilate the nutrients far more quickly than when consuming solid food and requires little energy to process them. Because of this highly digestible state, our bodies can also utilise more of the nutrients present.
13. INCREASED METABOLIC RATE - enzymes are contained in raw foods, and are responsible for the digestion and absorption of food into your body. They convert foods into body tissues and are an important producer of energy levels. Without enzymes, our metabolism cannot function at its maximum rate.
14. PROTECTION AGAINST DISEASE - plant chemicals, known as phytochemicals are at the cutting edge of nutritional research because they hold the key to prventing some of our most deadly diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, as well as some of our most common, such as asthma, arthritis and allergies.
The problem with phytochemicals is that most of us cannot eat enough to reap the benefits they offer. However, juicing is a way to overcome this problem. Massive amounts of fruit and vegetables can be reduced to a few glasses and are easily consumed.
15. HEALING - juicing aids recovery and helps build up the nutrients lost during an illness. Certain fruits and vegetables, or combinations of these, have been found to be beneficial for particular conditions eg a combination of carrots, beetroot and cucumber is very helpful for arthritis, digestion and colds. More and more research is being conducted into healing foods, which has a long pre-medical history of helping people with what ails them.
16. OVERCOME DEPRESSION - feeling depressed is not just a psychological condition. Very often that sense of purposelessness, emptiness, feelings of worthlessness and guilt, come from a bio-chemical imbalance in the body. Internal pollution is a major cause. A deficiency in magnesium, potassium, iron, calcium or folic acid can contribute to depression. Juice detoxing not only eliminates the toxins causing the biochemical imbalance, it provides the nutrients necessary to banish depression permanently.
17. ANTI-AGING - fruit and vegetables contain antioxidants – nature’s secret weapon against ageing. They combat the free radicals and the damage they cause when they attack cells. Free radical damage contributes to wrinkles, sagging skin, loss of muscle tone, age spots and the onset of age-related diseases.
18. ALL NATURAL - no special products necessary, so no added toxins. Just natural fruits and vegetables. Fruit and vegetables are readily available and are cheap if you buy in season. With the number of different flavour combinations that can be concocted, the taste can vary each time, defeating boredom. Save money by not buying any special products either.
A JUICE DETOX MAKES SENSE. MANY HEALTH PROBLEMS AND AILMENTS WILL DISAPPEAR. FEELING ON TOP OF THE WORLD IS A NATURAL STATE, AND JUICE DETOXING IS THE WAY TO ACHIEVE IT. IT REALLY IS A MIRACLE!
For a healthy, lifestyle diet/food system, visit http://www.juice-detox.com. The plan is designed to help your body detoxify – rapidly to start, then slowly to gently continue the detoxification process. Your health will improve while your energy and vitality increase and you will also easily reach and maintain your ideal weight.
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