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Cleansing has always had a place among humans, throughout all ages and cultures. For thousands of years, body purification has been a part of our rituals for health and well-being. It was also used in ancient times as a way to reconnect with God.
Diets have just been in vogue during the last 150 years or so. You can look at the word diet in different ways. It has that painful reference to cutting way back on all the foods you love. It also can refer to a set of foods you allow yourself to consume without limit.
Recently diet products and supplements have turned into diet “systems”. Diet products used to just burn fat or boost your metabolism so you burned more calories. They were fat burners. Now diet systems involve a cleanse portion as well, a metabolism booster and sometimes a natural appetite suppressant like Hoodia.
So, what is the best way to healthy weight loss? Let’s talk about what a colon cleanse can do for healthy weight loss.
Detox or cleansing is a way to clean out all the toxins, environmental pollutants, and wastes from all the drugs, toxins and chemicals ingested into our bodies. Think about all environmental poisoning from just the pesticides, insecticides and other contaminants that are on most of our foods. Think about all the chemicals in our air and water, food additives in processed food, antibiotics and more that we absorb into our cells. These environmental toxins and stresses assault our liver, blood and colon on a daily basis. Our liver removes many of these toxins, but in today’s world our liver is overloaded it just keeps dumping toxins into our colon and blood systems because it can’t take the toxic load we are giving it. Repeated exposure to these toxins, pesticides, and antibiotics can take its toll on the body resulting in suppressed immune systems, unexplained aches, depression, weight gain, loss of memory, and low levels of energy.
“The colon is a sewage system, but by neglect and abuse it becomes a cesspool. When it is clean and normal, we are well and happy; let it stagnate, and it will distill the poisons of decay, fermentation and putrefaction into the blood, poisoning the brain and nervous system so that we become mentally depressed and irritable; it will poison the heart so that we are weak and listless; poisons the lungs so that the breath is foul; poisons the digestive organs so that we are distressed and bloated; and poisons the blood so that the skin is sallow and unhealthy. In short, every organ of the body is poisoned, and we age prematurely, look and feel old, the joints are stiff and painful, neuritis, dull eyes and a sluggish brain overtake us; the pleasure of living is gone.”
- Dr. Bernard Jensen
Healthy weight loss starts with a colon cleanse. If the colon is cleansed on a regular basis it is better able to absorb nutrients into our cells. If our colon is full of compacted old waste it absorbs very little of the actual nutrients we eat. That is why the body keeps telling you that you are hungry and calls for more food. It is a vicious cycle. Healthy weight loss, weight loss that lasts, comes from fine tuning your system, starting with a colon cleanse. A good colon cleanse will eliminate most sugar and salt cravings making that healthy weight loss even easier! To keep your body running in top shape with high energy levels you should consider a colon, liver, blood and kidney cleanse once every three months or once every season. You can also buy some “health assurance” by adding a green superfood to your diet daily. That is what I call a diet!
Marty Meshek
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/diet-vs-cleanse–healthy-weight-loss-87806.html
Are you sick and tired of that extra weight you are carrying around? If you want to get rid of that extra pounds on your body, you should undergo a natural weight loss process. Although there are many diet programs and weight pills that would entice you with some great testimonials from people who have successfully finished their weight reduction program, crash diets and diet pills are not long term solutions to your weight problems.
If you are really serious about losing weight and keeping off that extra weight from your body forever, you should lose weight the natural way. Unlike those crash diet programs and those diet pills where you will eventually gain back all the pounds that you shed off right after you stop taking the pills and starving yourself, you will more likely be able to stay slim if you lose weight the natural way.
Eating a proper diet to lose weight naturally
The secret of natural weight loss is to eat right and exercise more. If you have been living an unhealthy lifestyle, make some changes immediately. Proper diet and exercise are good for the body. People who eat a balanced diet and do some daily exercise routine are generally a lot healthier than those people who don’t really bother to exercise and watch what they eat.
One of the best ways to lose weight naturally is to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables while avoiding fatty foods. Fruits and vegetables are high in soluble fibers that facilitate good digestion. If your digestive system is healthy, your body will be able to process food more easily. According to experts, unlike fatty foods, which tend to clog your system, high fiber food will help you cleanse your colon.
Fatty foods are generally harmful to your body. Aside from building up fats in the most unflattering areas of your body, a fatty diet could lead to so many types of fatal diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. To lose naturally, avoid eating fatty foods.
Drink plenty of water. Drinking at least glasses of water a day should be your goal. Water can help you lose some weight and it makes you feel better too.
Exercising
Aside from eating right, you should exercise daily. You do not have to go through some power exercise routine if you do not want to. Just doing some simple exercise daily will be enough to shed off a few pounds. In fact, you can exercise while going to your workplace. If you happen to work in an office building, take the stairs instead of the elevator. Climbing stairs is a very good form of exercise and it’s free too.
Another way for you to exercise while going to work is to walk. If you have been fighting for that coveted parking space nearest to the entrance of your office building, give it. Park at the far end of the parking and then walk the rest of the way. Walking across the parking lot and climbing stairs just to get to your office is one of the best natural weight loss routine that you can have.
Ian Jefferson
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/natural-weight-loss-the-safe-way-to-lose-weight-111168.html
A question commonly asked by dieters is, “What can I do to support my healthy weight?” As a digestive care educator, my simple answer to that question is “cleanse & detoxify!” Simple dietary changes such as adding more fiber, and seasonal colon cleansing can help you promote regularity & associated weight loss.
Colon cleansing is often the first thing we think about when we hear the words cleansing and detoxification. Everyday at work I speak with countless individuals who have reaped the benefits of undergoing even the simplest form of colon cleanse.
Think of it this way, if your digestive system is a long tube that flows one-way, then we must prevent occasional constipation from stopping up the works and causing excess retention. Indeed, if your bowels are irregular, then where is all that undigested & constipated food going? So, improve digestion & eliminate constipation, and you will encourage your body to naturally shed excess weight.
According to digestive expert & colon therapist, Brenda Watson, constipation can also lead to “autointoxication,” which her book ‘Essential Cleansing for Perfect Health” defines as “poisoning, or the state of being poisoned, from toxic substances produced within the body.” Brenda maintains that impaired digestion allows harmful microbes in the digestive tract to act on undigested food. She continues the argument by stating that faulty elimination can then allow these toxins to seep from the intestinal tract into the circulatory system, where they can cause numerous hazards to the body.
In her newest book, The Fiber35 Diet, Ms Watson shares with us the ‘detoxification factor’. She reminds us that toxins can slow down our metabolism, decrease our ability to burn fat, and even slow down the time it takes to feel full. So, if our goal is to lose weight, then we are encouraged to cleanse and detoxify.
To cleanse naturally, the colon is helped by our consumption of fiber, which promotes regularity and absorbs excess toxins, eliminating them in a healthy bowel movement. Sadly, few Americans are getting the quantity of fiber needed to promote a healthy colon. The American Dietetic Association recommends that adults consume 20-35 grams of fiber every day for optimal health. Most of us are lucky if we consume 12-15 grams of fiber in our average diet. Since our body is not getting the nutritional support it needs to successfully cleanse, then it is unable to eliminate and detoxify properly.
Additionally, even if you consume a fairly healthy diet, our bodies are still being assaulted everyday by toxins and chemicals from the environment. Car exhaust, heavy metals, pesticides, off-gassing from carpets and plastics, even DDT from formerly contaminated soil are all serving to add to the toxic burden that is slowly poisoning our bodies.
There are many cleansing products on the market. When purchasing a program, experts recommend choosing one that addresses your body as a system, because a healthy body will cleanse and detoxify utilizing the seven channels of elimination: liver, lungs, lymphatic system, kidneys, skin, blood, and bowel. You want to be sure that you are giving each organ the support it needs to do its job.
Be sure to take in adequate fiber while cleansing. You’ll also want to make sure your bowels are moving regularly. Conducting a periodic total body cleanse will help your body to relieve itself of the extra burden. Partner this with a healthy lifestyle, such as what goes hand in hand with weight management and you will have the greatest success.
Cassandra Cox
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/total-body-cleansing-supports-detoxification-and-a-weight-loss-plan-139937.html
Fasting to lose weight is one of the many ways people use to achieve rapid weight loss. It would be natural to assume that since eating too much food leads to weight gain, fasting would be helpful in cutting down the total amount of calories that you take. Fasting has also been used by patients for weight management, to rest the digestive tract and for lowering lipids.
There are some things that you will want to know before you start fasting to lose weight. Here are some tips, as well as cautions to keep in mind before you start your fast in your journey to lose weight.
If you’ve always had problems with sticking to diets and self-discipline, one way to help you go through your fasting program is to have a fasting partner. Having someone to fast together with you helps to create that buddy support to go through the initial stages where you’re just getting used to fasting. It can get you through the tough days. Having another person to fast with can also keep you accountable.
Cautions About Fasting To Lose Weight
Here are some cautions about fasting to lose weight – Fasting to lose weight can be hazardous to your health if you are not already leading a healthy lifestyle. If you have a pre-existing health condition, fasting will only make your body and immune system more vulnerable. So if you intend to start on a fasting program to lose weight, check with your doctor especially if you have any health issues.
Fasting and liquid diets may promote rapid weight loss, but not permanent fat loss. So fasting for weight loss doesn’t work as well as you would hope. To begin with, many people don’t realize that a large percentage of their daily water intake comes from solid foods, not liquids. So the initial amount of weight lost doesn’t come from loss of fat, but from loss of water. But still, there are benefits to fasting other than just the initial loss of water weight.
Fasting To Lose Weight Benefits
Other benefits for fasting are to regain lost energy, heighten clarity of consciousness, enhance innate spirituality, cleanse, rest, regenerate, and rejuvenate the body along with the weight loss. Fasting develops mental will power and increased control over the senses and mind. Overall, if you go on fast, you will benefit more than just from losing some weight.
Fasting gives the digestive tract time to completely rest and strengthen its mucosal lining. A healthy intestinal mucosal lining is necessary for preventing the leakage of incompletely digested proteins into the bloodstream, thereby offering protection against autoimmune conditions.
Fasting triggers a truly wondrous cleansing process that reaches right down to each and every cell and tissue in the body. Within 24 hours of curtailing food intake, enzymes stop entering the stomach and travel instead into the intestines and into the bloodstream, where they circulate and gobble up all sorts of waste matter, including dead and damaged cells, unwelcome microbes, metabolic wastes, and pollutants.
Generally speaking, fasting hastens the destruction of the decaying tissues of the body by means of hunger, and then builds new tissues through nutrition. This is why some scientists suggest that fasting should be regarded as an effective means of restoring youthfulness and longevity.
So while fasting may not directly help you in getting rid of extra fat, it can help you to become healthier in other ways.
Preparing For Your Fast
Prepare the body with a raw food diet and juice to minimize shock on the system. It also acts as neutralizing and purifying agents to cleanse the blood. Prepare yourself physically by taking enough food and also plenty of liquids the day before. Prepare yourself mentally by deciding the night before fasting: “Tomorrow is fasting day, and I am not going to eat anything.” If you take this mental determination prior to the fasting day, you will not be hungry during the fasting day.
A prolonged fast should result in the loss of about 5-7 pounds of fecal material from the colon, but this amount is quickly regained upon feeding. Fasting to lose weight is a very popular method among those who have a great amount of weight to lose, or want to learn discipline while they are dieting. However, this route can be extremely dangerous if you are not careful.
Ending Your Fast For Weight Loss
Generally, the longer the fast, the longer it should take to return to the normal diet. It’s also important to chew thoroughly and avoid overeating. The temptation is to start gobbling all your favorite foods that you couldn’t eat while on the fast, and this may lead to excessive eating after your fast. So remember to take it slow, and allow yourself to ease back into your normal (and healthy) diet. You may even find that you don’t really want or need to eat that big a portion as you normally do!
In Summary
Health results from healthful living. No matter how successful a fasting experience might be, it needs to be followed by a consistently healthy lifestyle. Healing takes a lot of the body’s resources and energies, digestion takes up a lot too. You still need nutrients, vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and all the wonderful stuff that helps us rebuild our sick cells and detoxify the body.
Fasting to lose weight should be done with extreme care if at all. Fasting to lose weight is simply not a good way to stay skinny long term. But when combined with an overall healthy lifestyle, fasting not only helps you to lose weight by eating less overall, it also helps to promote a healthier state of being.
Ryan Daniels Lee
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/fasting-to-lose-weight-some-tips-and-cautions-713624.html
I am currently taking a weight loss supplement called "Nuphedrine". So far Its great, no jitters or racing heart and I’m losing weight! I would like to also do a colon cleanse for additional weight loss and overall health. Is that safe to do and if so what is a recommended product that works?
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I want to lose weight and I want to start off by doing a detox so it feels like my body has a fresh start. Will this product help?
I’m not going to say it’s the "best" way, but it should help. Don’t rely on it for losing weight though, exercise is THE best way of losing weight
It’s ironic that while society is obsessed with fitness and weight loss, fast food restaurants are more popular than ever and obese childhood obesity are at record highs. It is hardly surprising that the snake-oil purveyors of today are using the same methodology that their distant cousins used in the decades gone by: while in the past any tincture promised to be “love in a bottle” today’s con artist promises that every tincture, mix of pills and caplets, and supplemental regimen spells “weight loss in a bottle.” Of course, considering that weight loss and attractiveness to the opposite sex go hand in hand, perhaps the snake-oil salesmen of old and the modern batch still have a lot more in common than meets the eyes, even though today’s crop is adding an additional step in between supplement and love.
It is, therefore, not surprising that those selling colon cleansers on the internet are often adding claims of startling weight loss to their shticks. Yet as much as one would like to disagree with the clever ‘Net sales people, they do have a point! Here are some startling facts why high quality colon cleanses guarantee weight loss success:
Mathematics bears out the brunt of the argument. Consider an individual who has lived most of her or his life on the typical American diet rich in processed foods, animal fat, sugar, toxins, and other undesirable additives. As the fecal matter becomes compacted in the colon and builds up, the odds are good that after a few decades there will be several pounds of matter stuffed into the colon. When a colon cleanser is used to flush out the matter, pounds upon pounds of waste matter will leave the body, thus making it lighter.
While mathematics showcases that there is a certain weight loss associated with a colon cleansing regimen, the weight loss stops as soon as the colon cleanse is completed, correct? Wrong! The weight loss success continues as the colon is functioning properly! No longer does the body demand more food to feed its organs which are starving for nutrients, but instead the nutrients which are now being ingested are properly absorbed and thus the body signals fullness a lot sooner. While those given to overeating for psychological reasons will still need to deal with behavior modification, those who overate due to bodily demands will find that the weight they have gained will begin to melt away since they are no longer overfeeding their bodies simply to satisfy nutritional needs.
Finally, as the fecal matter and its inherent toxins are made to leave your body, your organs will no longer have to fight the attack of the toxins and their byproducts but instead get back to the tasks they were intended; thus, your kidneys and liver will once again be at peak performance, while your pancreas and stomach will have the ability to deal with the digestion of food properly. Once again this will decrease the body’s perceived need for food intake, since it is no longer in danger of starving for nutrients. Weight loss is inevitable.
Scott Meyers
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/guaranteed-weight-loss-success-with-a-colon-cleanse-392294.html
The enclosed ten tips are designed to help you lose weight fast.
The first 5 will get your metabolism working quickly to burn fat quicker and then you the 5 tips that follow will help you lose weight easily.
These 10 tips can be incorporate in sensible any diet and will see you shed pounds and lose weight fast!
5 Detox Tips
The body needs to be working as efficiently as possible to lose weight fast; as if your body organs are working at maximum efficiency you will shed weight quicker. Logical but not many people think about this when dieting
So here are your 5 easy natural detox tips
Eat cherries and strawberries
These foods are rich in ellagic acid a nutrient that helps mop up free radicals and help combat pollutants such as alcohol and as a by product they boost brain power.
You can also add raspberries an alternative to the above 2 choices.
Eat Grapes
These are rich in flavinols, which help your arteries work to their maximum and make blood run smoothly and quickly around the body.
Eat citrus fruits such as berries
These foods are rich in vitamins C & E, which will help cleanse and detoxify the liver making it work more efficiently.
Prunes & Fibre
Eat prunes as they will naturally cleanse the colon stimulating the gut and help expel waste quicker, you should also up your intake of fibre as well to cleanse the colon further.
Apricots
If you are smoker this food is particularly useful, apricots are rich in beta-carotene and vitamin C which helps repair smoke damage to the lungs.
Cranberries or juice
Contains proanthocyanidin which are antitoxants that will help cleanse and flush out the kidneys.
You can also add a couple of supplements if you wish top the above list to help detoxify further. Alfalfa and milk thistle are good choices. The first acts as a general cleanser and the second as a cleanser for the liver.
Your organ will be working more efficiently with above foods and this will help you get rid of weight faster as your kidneys and liver in particular will work more smoothly.
Now here are 5 tips to lose weight fast
5 Easy weight loss tips
Drink Iced Water
Two litres a day minimum. Water has to be iced as the body will burn 100 calories just heating the water to normal body temperature. Also hunger pangs are very often thirst pangs, so this will help you stop over eating.
Add lemon to flavour if you wish and gain the added benefit of cleansing your liver at the same time.
Water also helps your body metabolize stored fat by helping the kidneys flush waste quicker. When you don’t drink enough water the liver needs to help the kidneys perform this function. When the liver has to help the kidneys its normal function of providing stored fat for energy is slowed down.
Green tea
Drink 5 cups a day. Research shows this can burn a massive 80 calories a day! It is believed the antioxidant catechins in green tea boost the metabolism and help burn fat.
Chilli sauce & mustard
These foods increase your calorie burning capacity by between 5 – 10% for up to 2 hours after eating. This is because they contain capsaicin which speeds the metabolism, so if you enjoy hot food your in luck!
Low fat diary foods
Can increase fat burning in the abdominal area. Why? Because these foods are rich in calcium which encourages the release of fat from fat cells and also reduces the amount of fat absorbed.
Eat Fibre
Eating fiber foods to help keep things moving through your bowel as stated above and makes you feel full.
The average person can lose 9-10 pounds in one year just from doubling their fiber intake aim for 25grams per day ( the average for most adults is just 8grams ) fiber rich foods include strawberries, apples, brown rice, chick peas, potatoes ( with skins ) and brown rice.
The above tips should be incorporated into a sensible diet and they will enhance it and help you lose weight fast.
Sacha Tarkovsky
http://www.articlesbase.com/weight-loss-articles/lose-weight-fast-5-detox-tips-to-speed-metabolism-5-tips-to-lose-weight-fast-56364.html