Inside Out
Lemons, grapefruits are good detox food
By Cory Quirino
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 22:01:00 01/12/2009
Filed Under: Food, Health
DO you know that any changes in your eating habits will affect your metabolic rate?
Gaining weight is deceptively easy, especially if you’re not alert. What to do?
1. When brushing teeth, scrape the surface of your tongue. Health experts believe this is the best way to reduce the amount of germs/bacteria and infections entering your body.
2. Balance the pH in your system. Drink something alkaline like a cup of warm water with a slice of lemon or 1 tsp apple cider vinegar or a glass of alkaline water.
3. For the next seven days, take a pinch of rock salt with a glass of water. Place it on top of your tongue, then drink up. Salt will help you keep hydrated. Take 10-12 glasses daily.
4. Be kind to your liver. Abstain from fatty foods and alcohol for one week.
Eat a handful of black grapes; it’s considered liver food.
Eat a fresh clove of garlic (mixed with food and not alone). Or take a capsule of garlic oil after meal.
Drink a glass of pure, fresh carrot and beat root juice.
Take 2 capsules of dandelion or fennel tea.
5. Aside from liver, the other major detox organ is the kidneys.
Go easy on commercially prepared beverages unless they are low in sugar and preservative free.
Drink coconut water up to two glasses a day.
Take a warm cup of water mixed with fresh, wild honey (from bees) or coconut honey (from coco flower nectar).
Drink a glass of cranberry juice.
Eat two slices of fresh melon in the morning. Note: Best to eat it alone and not to eat any other food 30 minutes before and after you consume it as it may cause indigestion.
6. Seaweed or kelp can help regulate your metabolism. You may want to add a generous serving of dried seaweed to your salad.
7. Manage your meal schedule. Eating on time will also manage your weight loss. Have breakfast early, not later than 9 a.m. Lunch should be finished by 2 p.m. Dinner ideally must be before 7 p.m. This schedule allows your body enough time to process food before the next meal.
Note: In a healthy body, the cycle of eating and defecating should be less than 24 hours. If it takes you 48 hours to move your bowels, you need to take your detoxification program more seriously.
8. Sweating helps especially if it’s through exercise. You may consider a dry or wet sauna twice a week.
9. Rest from cow’s milk this week. Goat or sheep’s milk is easier to digest. A new brand in the market is goat milk by Milk Star from Laguna. Or, go completely non-dairy with skimmed coconut milk freshly made by Cocohouse (tel. 4893166).
10. Stay away from acidic foods so as not to harm the liver, like spinach, oranges, tomatoes. Avoid mushrooms because of too much fungus and peanuts/avocados due to their high-fat content. Bread contains gluten in wheat flour, so forego this temporarily. Lemons and grapefruits are good detox food because they are alkaline-producing foods once they enter the body.
Soothing foot soak
Mix in a pan of warm water, 2 tbsp baking soda, 1 tbsp Epsom salt, 2 drops peppermint essential oil. Keep feet soaked for 7 minutes.
Alkaline thoughts
It’s not only your liver and kidneys that need to be given a rest from acidic substances but also your mind and heart. A negative thought is sour no matter how you look at it. And every time we entertain it, its pressure in our psyche will wreak havoc on the immune system.
Drive away the unpleasant and bitter memories and replace them with loving thoughts.
Affirm: “If I think happy, I attract happy.”
Love and light!
Reference: “Detox Yourself” by: Jane Scrivner The British School of Complementary Therapy
Spa Detox items at World of Wellness, Virra Mall. Call 7233878
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