"Fasting is the greatest remedy--the physician
within!"--Philippus Paracelsus
Fasting is a great way to detox your body quickly. Fasting is
when you do not eat any type of solid food for any number of
days. Liquids like water, fruit and vegetable juices and herbal
teas are excellent and recommended to have during fasting and
they can help speed up the cleasing and detoxifying process.
When you eat, a lot of the bodies energy and resources are used
up for digestion. Most people eat throughout the day leaving
little if any rest for your digestive system. A lot of the
bodies enzymes are required to digest the foods that we eat,
especially if the food is mostly processed and void of any
nutritional value.
When you give your digestive system a well needed rest, enzymes
that would normally be used for digestion can then be used for
other purposes in the body such as the breaking down and proper
elimination of waste material.
Considering that toxic matter in the body being excreted through
the skin is one of the main causes of acne, a regular fasting
detox could prove extremely beneficial. Research has suggested
that there is between 5-to-10 lbs. of toxic chemicals locked
into the average adults body.
fasting with fruit and vegetable juices is considered the safest
way to fast as it provides the body with it's dietary
nutritional requirements and are also of great benefit for
people suffering from acne.
One of the best juices to take several times a day on a fast is
carrot juice. Carrot juice is an excellent blood cleanser and
helps to clear and beautify the skin. It reverses the condition
of acidosis which is an excess of acid in the body tissues and
is one type of toxicity.
Another good juice that can be mixed with carrot juice is
spinach. Spinach juice is one of the best for cleaning out the
intestinal tract of toxic waste. Spinach juice taken on it's own
has a rather strong flavour which is why it is usually mixed
with other vegetables such as carrots.
Together, carrot and spinach juice help to cleanse out the
entire system and also help the livers ability to rid the body
of toxins.
It has been stated that you may take as much vegetable juice as
you wish. It is considered a food but without needing the
arduous task of digestion. As a general guideline, 2-4 glasses a
day would be a safe and effective way to fast.
It is a good idea to seek a doctors approval before fasting as
it shouldn't be attempted by certain people, especially pregnant
or nursing woman and people on certain medications or medical
complications.
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