Article - the Detox Diet ...

When Pixi was busy packing for the holiday she was thinking about detox and its effects. And then she found this article on detox - The Body Restoration Plan: Ridding Your Body of Chemical Calories. The author is Dr Paula Baille-Hamilton, who is a specialist in Environmental Medicine and consults for the Health and Weight Management Industry.

Paula says that the only way to lose weight permanently is to detox fattening chemicals out of the body and avoid foods that are highly toxic. To avoid "the Chemical Calories", as she calls them. Modern synthetic chemicals are "dumbing down" our Slimming Systems, and as a result we are getting fatter and fatter. Today our food is loaded with chemicals, pesticides, fungicides, antibiotics, growth hormones and other drugs used at evry stage of the industrial food production.
And Paula provides a list of the "dirty dozen" food items that we should avoid. Which is really depressing! Pixi says.

But Paula gives advice too, and here are her Top 10 Detoxing Tips:

1. Eat more organic foods.
2. If you don't have access to organic foods, use methods such as peeling or washing to lower chemical contamination.
3. Stop using artificial pesticides and herbicides around the house and garden.
4. Don't microwave foods in plastic, as chemicals leach from the plastic into the foods.
5. Store foods, particularly fatty ones, in natural material containers such as glass or ceramic.
6. Filter your water and drink lots of it.
7. Use organic skin care products as the body absorbs approximately 60% of what is put on the skin.
8. Reduce animal fats in the diet.
9. Ventilate your home, as levels of airborne toxins are usually far greater inside the home than out.
10. Use environmentally friendly cleaning products.

Read the article in full here!