Detox diet, a method to detoxify both body and soul!
Discover how a detox diet and many centrifuged juice recipes can give you physical but also mental wellbeing.
When we talk about detox our thought immediately goes to our bowel, liver and stomach, but DETOX really means to free your body from all toxins that are poisoning it both physically and psychologically. Our body infact does not only intoxicate itself through industrial foods, elaborated food or exaggeration, our body is intoxicated also when we let bad habits enter, an incorrect lifestyle, negative thoughts, anxiety and worrying. Do you have in mind that sensation we get in our stomach when we have certains thoughts on our mind? This is exactly what we are talking about, body and mind move on the same wavelength and at the same pace and a healthy and correct diet as DETOX as possible can help us overcome those hassles caused by stress. Recent studies have infact highlighted that a diet of vegetable preference could also help loosen tension and stress.
Lets see what DETOX means and how should we proceed.
HOW TO PREPARE A DETOX EXTRACT
To prepare a good DETOX extract that really works, the suggested proportion is 80% vegetables (mainly green) and 20% fruit or sweet vegetables (carrots beetroots etc) to improve the final taste. Fresh fruit juices are very rich with natural sugar that can create various alterations on the inside of our organism. Furthermore juices should not be drank but “eaten”, chewing as much as possible thats why they should have a consistancy that is almost creamy.
We can simply begin by adding a juice for breakfast or as a snack (at least 30 minutes before meals considering that the juice properties are absorbed better if on an empty stomach) or by substituting a meal with a dose of green extract, or even better giving ourselves one or more days of purification with juice based meals, maybe also with the support of an organised detox retreat.
WHICH INGREDIENTS SHOULD WE CHOOSE
The most common ingredients used as bases for purifying extracts are: fennel, celery, carrots, ginger, parsley, green apple, pineapple, cucumber.
Here is an idea for a detox extract base:
celery, fennel, carrots and some fresh ginger root (3/4 celery stalks, 3/4 carrots i fennel: 80% of the ingredients) to which we can add some apple or pineapple to sweeten.
In general amongst the various extract recipes spread all around the ones for a real detoxication include a very high GREEN component, because at the bottom of this style is the aim of a detoxication that alkalizes the organism. It is suggested to use an extractor or juicer but you can also use a simple mixer.
DETOX RECIPES
GOODMORNING DETOX
Ingredients for max 2 persons
- 3 or 4 medium sized carrots
- 1 small beet preferably with leaves
- 1/2 a cucumber
- 1/2 a medium sized lemon, peeled if not organic
- 1-2,5 cm fresh ginger root
- 1/2 a green apple (optional) Juice the carrots, beet, cucumber, lemon and ginger. If using the apple you must remember that contains more fructose, therefore sacrifice it if suffering from diabetes. Cut the apple in wedges and add it right after the ginger. Mix well the juice and pour it in a glass. Serve at room temperature.
The juices should be consumed immediately because the more time goes by the more precious nutrients are lost, if you don’t manage to consume it immediately than store in a cool dark place like in a thermos in the fridge but however it must be consumed within 24hours.
SUPERNUTRITIOUS RECIPE
For 2 persons max
- 30-60 g organic spinach
- 1 handful parsley
- 3 or 4 medium carrots
- 1 stem organic celery with leaves
- 1/2 a beet with leaves and stems. Put into little piles the spinacj and parsley, pass them through the extractor helping through with the carrots, celery and beet. Mix the juice well and pour into a glass, serve at room temperature. If you don’t have an extractor than you can use a mixer and add some water if you find difficulty in juicing.
COLON CLEANSING
For 1 or 2 persons max
- 1 washed cucumber (peeled if not organic)
- 1 handful of rinsed spinach
- 1 handful rinsed parsley
- 1 rinsed celery stem
- 1/2 rinsed lemon
- 1/2 green apple (optional). Cut the cucumber in half, or in pieces according to the type of appliance used. Pile togther the spinach, parsley and cucumber in the extractor or mixer, than the celery, lemon and apple (the same rule goes for the apple if suffering from diabetes). With the extractor you will get actual juices, hence more liquid and more effective, whilst with the mixer the consistency will e different and less liquid.
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