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16 bikini detox pure organic food




Gallery: 16 bikini-friendly foods
Why detox?
We are exposed to toxins every day and a build-up can affect our neurological, immune and endocrine (hormone) systems. The most common offenders are air pollution, food additives, pesticides, alcohol, cigarette smoke and heavy metals.
When large amounts of toxins are consumed over a long period of time, health issues arise. By following a detox diet you reduce the toxic load and enable the body to function more efficiently. Detoxing simply requires a little discipline and a fridge full of nourishing foods.
This plan consists of a preparation week followed by two full weeks of detoxing.

Week 1: Preparation

Planning is the key to success. Go shopping and get ready for the next two weeks.
In week one, start weaning off caffeine and alcohol. If you drink two cups of coffee a day, reduce it to one or every second day. This early stage is aimed at limiting potential withdrawal symptoms that vary from a light headache to migraines, nausea and low energy levels. Start to up your water intake.

Foods to include
  • Fresh vegetables: broccoli, carrots, snow peas, cabbage, asparagus, sweet potato, onions, celery, artichoke, beetroot, spinach and swiss chard
  • Sprouts: mung beans and alfalfa
  • Fresh fruit: blueberries, strawberries, apples, passionfruit, pear, pineapple, kiwifruit, mango and all citrus varieties
  • Nuts and seeds: unsalted raw almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, pecans, walnuts, and pumpkin, sunflower, sesame and chia seeds
  • Gluten-free grains: brown rice, millet and quinoa
  • Legumes: chickpeas, kidney beans and lentils
  • Soy: tofu and tempeh
  • Protein: fish, eggs, chicken, turkey and lamb
  • Beverages: filtered water, herbal tea, green tea, unsweetened organic soy, rice and almond milk
  • Extras: tamari sauce, sea salt, pepper, cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil, apple cider vinegar, flaxseed oil, organic honey, tahini, almond or cashew spread

Foods to avoid
  • Grains containing gluten: oats, rye, triticale and wheat (white/wholemeal breads, wheat pasta, spelt, couscous)
  • Protein: beef, pork, shellfish, bacon, sausages and preserved meats
  • Dairy: milk, yogurt, cheese and butter
  • Sugars: sweets, chocolate, jams and fruit spreads
  • Processed items: canned foods, packaged foods, frozen foods, chips and breakfast cereals
  • Refined foods: white rice, white breads, biscuits,  cakes and pastries
  • Fast foods: hot chips, burgers and fried treats
  • Beverages: alcohol, coffee, black tea, soft drinks, cordial and commercial juices
  • Extras: table salt, margarine, polyunsaturated spreads, peanut butter, commercial dressings and sauces, artificial colours, flavours, additives, flavour enhancers and hydrogenated fats

The bikini detox must-dos
  • Drink at least two litres of pure water each day
  • Eliminate alcohol
  • Choose organic wherever possible. Onions, broccoli, kale and cabbage are top vegetables for cleansing. They help the liver convert toxins to harmless substances to be excreted out of the body
  • Exercise daily

Useful tips
  1. Start the day with a glass of freshly squeezed lemon juice in water. This enhances digestion and liver detoxification. Don’t throw out the peel; the nutrients in lemon zest further promote liver detoxification. Add the zest to salads, cooked quinoa or fish.
  2. Sip on green tea throughout the day. It will help manage coffee withdrawal plus provide the body with antioxidants to help neutralise toxins. Green tea does contain caffeine, but it’s only a small amount and the benefits outweigh the minimal caffeine levels.
  3. Add fresh herbs to meals, especially coriander. This delicious herb has a unique detoxifying action and goes particularly well with stir-fries, fish and salads.

Did you know? Chewing each mouthful of food 10 to 12 times improves digestion and allows you to feel a sense of fullness without overeating.

Diet for a quick one-day detox

There are many people who can easily withstand a variety of diets, but there are those for whom even a few days with food restrictions are unacceptable. Just for those who belong to the second category, nutritionists have developed a one-day diet that allows you to quickly and effectively clean the gastro-intestinal tract, and is a good starting point for further healthy lifestyle.

One-day diet has a lot of advantages:

- No grueling hunger and depressive mood.

- The body is easier to tolerate a day diet that allows you to minimize the stress of the sudden food restriction.

- Cleared the gastro-intestinal tract, which has a positive effect on digestion and immunity. The body gets rid of toxic substances accumulating for years in the bends of the intestine, metabolic products of undigested food rotting remains, creating good conditions for the development of pathogenic and conditionally pathogenic microflora, increases peristalsis, which helps to control the frequency of bowel movements, normalizes the process of digestion.

Day cleansing diet can also be called a discharge day, when as soon as possible is the general cleaning of all parts of the digestive system.

Contraindications to the diet: acute diseases in various parts of the intestine, stomach, internal organs, pregnancy, infancy, puberty, lactation.
Before using a cleaning day diet, it is recommended to consult a nutritionist or other specialized doctor.

In order for the result of the diet exceeded all expectations, you need to properly observe its guidelines and recommendations on the composition of foods and the time of their use.

The whole daily ration of one-day diet is based on a specially prepared bread tea and various juices.

Bread tea is prepared as follows: 200 grams of conventional Borodino rye bread without any flavors (garlic, seeds, sesame, etc.), pour one liter of boiling water. Then the mixture to infuse for ten - twelve hours. At the end of the infusion period, grain tea strain through cheesecloth and drink throughout the day. It is important not to let the drink ferment.

You also need to brew a normal leaf green tea with no added flavorings and fragrances at the rate of one teaspoon per cup (cup) of boiling water.

Melon detox diet

Melon diet refers to the cleansing detox diets due to the diuretic action of melon. Moreover, it monodiet accordingly can not be used a long time (more than a week). There is a huge number of different variants of melon diet. There are also one-day fasting days, there are strict monodiets to the almost complete absence of all the other products, with the exception of melons. There are also cleaning methods when reducing the size of the portions and calorie daily diet, and in the daily menu adds fragrant melon pulp.

Melon - is not only delicious, refreshing, but also very healthy fruit that is rich in carbohydrates, which give vigor and energy, so that the body is a long lasting feeling of satiety.

In melon contains vitamins (vitamin C, E, A, etc.), minerals (cobalt, copper, iron, fluoride, potassium, sulfur, iodine, etc.), vegetable fibers, and a lot of water. This fruit is recommended for people with kidney and liver, as it has a good diuretic and cleansing effect.

Melon helps in the digestion of high calorie and junk food, which is why it is often recommended as a dessert.

Melon also involved in the cleavage and excretion of the so-called "bad cholesterol" than useful to people with atherosclerotic disease.

This fruit contributes to the renewal of blood cells, has a mild sedative effect and reduces the severity of edema.

Contraindications: melon with caution to the diet should be treated in patients with diabetes mellitus. It is not recommended for children, adolescents, pregnant women, with weakened immunity, and during lactation.

Cleansing Detox Diet

Cleansing Detox Diet - a very popular and sought-after phenomenon among various other diets. It is no coincidence, because such diets, except pohudatelnogo effect, are of great benefit to the body, helping it to be cleansed of any toxins.

The essence detox diet is the normalization of internal organs (including digestive) purified from blood and lymph toxic and hazardous products which have accumulated in doing oxygen or foodstuffs.

As a result, slagging, the body begins to work with a large load, which leads to impaired immunity and the body's defenses. Because of this, a person begins to tire quickly, gets sick more often and reduced vitality for no apparent reason.

Slagging are: the intestines (due to the complex "corrugated" structure of the toxins can remain in the folds and poison the body for years, causing fermentation and development of pathogens), liver (especially in the use of alcohol, tobacco, fatty foods and drugs), gall bladder and kidney and blood, lymph, joints and other major organs.

Slag - is a variety of substances that are either ballast (do not bring any harm nor benefit) or toxins (decaying, poison the body can build up and cause allergic reactions, etc.). They can be ingested with food, cosmetic and household through means with drugs from the atmosphere. In the area of ​​risk - the inhabitants of large cities, with a developed system of public transport and industry.

Detox diet helps reduce unnecessary burden to the body to improve its protective properties.

It is advisable to carry out a detox diet in the spring and summer. This is due to the fact that with the advent of cold weather the body begins to need more hot and greasy food, so the winter is easy to gain weight. In addition, the traditional New Year's holidays are a real test for the digestive system and other organs, and is especially recommended after they "cleaned".

During a detox diet prohibited the use of the following foods:

- Fatty and fried foods, rich in animal fat (pork, chicken legs, steak, bacon, sausages, hot dogs, burgers, etc.);

- Fats of animal and vegetable origin (lard, cooking oil, margarine, coconut and palm oil, etc.);

- Baked goods made from wheat flour and fresh-baked bread (different buns, pies, cookies, cakes, white bread and cakes);

- Confectionery and sweets;

- Alcoholic beverages of low and high strength.

Allowed the use of all kinds of vegetables, fruit, unsweetened beverages. Once a week you can eat low-fat cheese, meat, poultry without the skin or lean fish.

Carbon Diet

Coal Diet - this diet with activated charcoal. The main advantage of this diet is that in addition to the planned reduction of weight, and in addition you have clean your body (weight loss of coal refers to the detox diet).

Cleansing is achieved using activated (active) coal. He refers to the processing of wood products, and therefore is a natural and environmentally friendly. It is worth activated carbon inexpensive and always available in pharmacies.

Coal - a natural sorbent, with a strong absorbent (black pills without odor and taste), so it effectively cleanses the body (primarily the gastro-intestinal tract) from a variety of natural and man-made toxins: microorganisms and their metabolic products, toxic compounds, allergens , gases, toxins, degradation products, fats, undigested food particles, excess fluid, etc. Coal is a highly porous and non-toxic neutral substance. Completely excreted by the body within seven to ten hours.

Therefore, activated carbon (carbol) can be used not only for medical purposes (in the chemical and food poisoning, infections, allergies, abuse chairs, etc.), but also as an assistant for weight loss. It should be remembered that in addition to harmful substances and fats, activated charcoal can absorb also useful compounds (minerals and vitamins), precisely because of that, this type of diet is not recommended for a long time. Since there might be problems with the chair, metabolism and general exhaustion. This drawback can be partially compensated by using vitamin and mineral supplements and including a mandatory diet apples.

Just as with most other diets, carbon diet involves exercise and a balanced diet.

Contraindications to the coal diet: breast-feeding, pregnancy, children and old age, the general weakness of the body (the state after a cold, flu, operations, nervous tension, etc.), the presence of acute and chronic diseases of the intestine, stomach, kidney, pancreas, liver, and medication (including oral contraceptives).

Weight loss diets during the coal will depend on the diet, since the use of coal, primarily relates to detoxification diet. Weight loss is a side phenomenon that will certainly arise if the caloric intake falls.

Apple-kefir detox diet

Apple-kefir diet for those who want to spend a gentle cleaning of the body. In contrast to the strict apple diet, supplementation of yogurt helps to neutralize excess of malic acid and at the same time nourishes the body "light" animal protein.

Apples help to enrich the body with antioxidant vitamins, especially vitamin C and A, and B vitamins in this fruit contains the most important organic acids and minerals (especially apples are rich in iron, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus and zinc).

Very valuable pectin contained in apples. It has surprising property to bind and excrete various toxic substances: heavy metals (molybdenum, cobalt, lead, zinc, mercury, etc.), biogenic toxins, radionuclides, metabolic products, as well as cholesterol, urea, and bile acids.

Apple pectin is a good prevention of the accumulation of toxins in the human body, which is why various nutritionists agree that you need every day to include in the daily diet of apples.

In addition to cleaning action, pectin helps to normalize the intestinal flora, which leads to increasing immunity and it is also useful for improving blood sugar and skin problems.

Kefir is a fermented milk products and is prized for its low calorie, rich taste and good for the body. In yogurt contains lactic acid bacteria that are normally present in the human intestine. In women, these bacteria help maintain an optimal pH environment inside the vagina, preventing the growth and multiplication of pathogens.

Kefir contains a "light" animal protein, which is well absorbed by the body and is a source of essential amino acids.

In the yogurt is calcium, and during fermentation of yogurt enzymes accumulate a positive influence on metabolism and digestion.

Yogurt and apples belong to low-calorie foods, complementary to each other, that's why it's so popular combinations in the various diets.

Apple-kefir diet is designed for no more than three days. During this time, the body can be cleansed of toxins without any harm to health.

The main drink for four days - low-fat yogurt (1.5 - 2 liters of yogurt a day). Also allowed to drink clean, boiled or mineral water, green tea during the breaks between meals.

Instead of eating - apples green varieties (about five or six apples a day). They can be eaten raw, make them a salad using yogurt as a filling, bake and grind into a puree.