COMING IN APRIL healingways COMING IN APRIL
A Good Spring Cleaning Flushes Out Fats and Toxins by Ann Louise Gittleman
Diet Detox S
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pring—when the natural world reawakens and bursts with renewed energy—is an ideal season to clean up our act. A cleansing diet to eliminate toxins from our body is as much a rite of spring as sweeping debris from our home. In my nutri- tion practice, I have often seen how after a sedentary winter of
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consuming heavier foods, our bodies may be carrying around as much as five to 10 pounds of toxic wastes. While a properly functioning human body has its own built-in detoxification system, it can be easily overwhelmed by today’s proliferation of environmental toxins. The newest environmental assault on the body’s de- tox system is electro-pollution, accord- ing to research highlighted in the 2007 BioInitiative Report, a metastudy of 2,000 peer-reviewed studies compiled by an international group of researchers, scientists and health policy officials. Compounding the problem, Paula Baillie-Hamilton, a British medical doctor specializing in human metabo- lism, reported in The Journal of Alter- native and Complementary Medicine that environmental toxins also play havoc with our body’s built-in weight regulation system. In short, the more toxic our body becomes, the harder it is to lose weight.
Detox Equals Weight Loss
Clinical research from the University of Quebec as far back as 2002 suggests
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that toxins slow me- tabolism. It is widely held that because many toxins are fat- soluble and stored in body fat, as the fat melts away, the tox- ins are released into the bloodstream; this inhibits the production of thyroid hormone, with a resulting meta- bolic meltdown. According to
Traditional Chinese
Medicine, spring is the season to sup- port the prime organs of detoxifica- tion—the liver and gallbladder. The liver alone impacts some 400 bodily functions, so it deserves support. The following symptoms recommend giving these organs some special care: n Chronic tension in neck and shoulders
n Sensitivity beneath the rib cage (particularly the right side)
n Feeling tired and sleepy after eating n Nausea, especially after eating fatty foods
n Hormonal imbalances with hot flashes due to perimenopause or menopause
n Premenstrual irritability and bloating n Light-colored stools n Waking between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m.
Detox Diet Basics
Start off each morning for two weeks (or up to a maximum of two months), with hot lemon water, perhaps spiced with cinnamon and ginger, for an added metabolic boost. The antioxidant D-limonine in lemon thins bile and is helpful in breaking down fat-trapping
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