Foods To Detox

Foods that naturally remove toxins from your body

Eliminating or removing toxins from the body is an important thing to do to maintain your body to stay healthy. The body is often conceded toxins as a result of an unhealthy lifestyle or unhealthy food consumed. Or via bad habits such as alcohol consumption and smoking habits. These toxic substances can harm the soft organs in the body if left unchecked. Also, the toxins can weaken the immune system. By removing the toxins the body will become fresher and healthier as well as the immune system will be stronger.
 
5 great ways to remove toxins from your body naturally:

1. Avoid Processed Food Consumption
   Organic fruits, vegetables, lean & organic, clean meats along with whole grains that are not processed should be the food you consume. These foods should help the body recover from the situation in the body that is carried by the junk food you consume. By avoiding processed foods is synonymous to cutting your excess bad fats and process & refined sugar content as well as materials such as fructose corn syrup. Clean, unprocessed foods can cleanse your body and make you feel more awake and alert.
   
   
2. Green Tea Consumption Green tea contains antioxidants that help speed up and facilitate the body's metabolism. In addition, green tea is also able to effectively hydrate the body and can help prevent diseases such as the flu. To that end, rather than soft drinks or consume unhealthy beverages, it may be better to switch  and start  consuming green tea daily.
   
   
3. Sweating Everyone probably already knows that sport is healthy for the body, but why? Intense exercise can help remove toxins from the body. With intense exercise, the body sweats and  some of the harmful toxins in the body will be excreted through your skin. Therefore, no more excuse for not exercising and sweat toxins from your body.
   
   
4. Enough of Water Consumption Water can flush unwanted toxins out of your body. By drinking a lot of water you can speed up the process of excretion of toxins from the body. In addition, water provides other benefits, such as cleaner skin and eventually a slimmer waist line.
   
   
5. Stop Smoking and Reduce Alcohol Consumption Stopping a habit that has been ingrained for a long time is not easy. Smoking and alcohol consumption can worsen the performance of the heart and lungs because they're getting contaminated by hazardous substances. If any way possible, you should immediately reduce and stop these bad habits.
   

 
14 foods that naturally Remove toxins from body

1. Cucumber: on average around 95% water, this veggie helps flush out toxins and alkalize the body while delivering a powerful nutrient punch.
   
2. Garlic: stimulates the liver to encourage production of detoxification enzymes.
   
3. Broccoli: delivers a large dose of vitamins while neutralizing and eliminating toxins.
   
4. Lentils: extremely fiber-rich (1 cup cooked has 62.5% of your RDA!), lentils aids in toxin elimination, lower cholesterol, and balance blood sugar. Make sure to soak lentils overnight before you cook them!
   
5. Turnip greens: loaded with antioxidants and sulfur-containing nutrients (without sulfur, the body cannot properly detoxify substances such as pharmaceuticals, environmental toxins and heavy metals), turnip greens also contain phytonutrients called glucosinolates that help activate and regulate detoxification enzymes.
   
6. Sunflower seeds: these little slivers of sunshine are not only high selenium and Vitamin E, but also assist liver's detoxing capabilities and prevent cholesterol build up in the blood and arteries. Be sure to choose organic as their high fat and oil allows them to easily soak up chemicals used in the production process.
   
7. Walnuts: infuse the body with healthy omega-3 oils to assist detoxification.
   
8. Turmeric: stimulates liver function. Also a great addition to your diet for all-around health.
   
9. Yellow & Red pepper: when it comes to cleansing, vitamin C is one of the cream of the vitamin crop because it transforms toxins into digestible material. One red pepper contains about 3 times more vitamin C than an orange.
   
10. Citrus fruits. Any are great!
    
11. Grapefruit: a class of its own, grapefruit lowers cholesterol, prevents kidney stones and aids the digestive system, which set it apart from the other citrus fruits.
    
12. Watercress: keeps free radicals away from cells, energizes cleaning enzymes in the liver and is a natural diuretic.
    
13. Mung beans: used by Ayurvedic doctors for thousands of years, this easily digestible bean absorbs toxic residue from the intestinal walls. Same here, please soak overnight before cooking.
    
14. Artichokes: chock-full of cynarin, which increases bile production and promotes healthy digestion.
    

As always, these are just suggestions. Please use your own good judgement when trying these out. Always listen to your body and stop immediately if you don't feel well.

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