Toxins are harmful chemicals affecting your body. They are all around you (in your food, water, air) and inside you (as waste products of metabolism). Your body eliminates most toxins and the rest are stored within body fat.
These stored toxins combined with stress can affect your health in very unpleasant ways:
- weight gain
- headaches
- feelings of fatigue and weakness
- heartburn
- sore muscles and skin
- joint pains
Types of Detox Diets
+ Fasting – drinking only water, juices or broths, or eating one kind of food for a certain period of time. Your body starts burning fat for energy.
+ Nutritional supplements – intake of nutritious powders, vitamins and packaged protein snacks.
+ Hydrotherapy – detoxifying through your skin pores by taking special baths.
+ Specific detox diets – last between 7 and 30 days; there are quick detox diets for one and three days, and long detox diets for 8 weeks.
