How to Detoxify With Raw Food

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Everyone on the American Standard Diet, or anyone who eats cooked food, processed food, fast food, animal products, refined sugars, or other junk foods should detoxify periodically to get all or at least some of the harmful toxins out of the body. If these toxins are left in the body, eventually they will cause many degenerative diseases such as cancer, alzheimer's, diabetes, and heart disease.

The best way to avoid these toxins from building up, is not to put them into our body in the first place, but once we have already done so, it is essential that we now eliminate them by detoxifying.

The best way to go about doing a detoxification is to go on a juice fast, but for some a juice fast may seem a little on the extreme side, and they may choose to go on a raw food diet for several weeks or longer.

Raw foods have a lot of fiber which help to cleanse the body and digestive system by increasing bowel movements. They are also high in nutrients which help the body to restore its energy and overall health.

There is no rule which states what raw foods you must eat in order to detoxify; as long as you stick to a raw plant-based diet you will see amazing results. However, by eating a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and nuts, you will ensure that your body is getting all the essential oils and nutrients which it requires.

Fruits like blueberries, strawberries, plums, oranges, kiwis, and grapes are excellent antioxidants and are very tasty by themselves or in raw shakes and smoothies.

Garlic may not taste that great, but it is one of the best detoxifiers, along with kale, spinach and brussel and alfalfa sprouts. Other sprouts such as sunflower, bean, radish, garlic, leek, celery and sesame seed sprouts are also great to add to the raw food diet.

Nuts will help to reduce the hunger and they will also provide the body with protein and all the essential oils.

This raw food diet detoxification will have you feeling cleaner, and more energetic in as little as a week or two. It is best to remain on this diet for optimum health, but for some it is a difficult diet to stick with. But if you are determined and keep eating more and more raw food, eventually it will get easier, and the food cravings will go away.

It is also essential to consume a lot of clean water or fresh fruits and vegetable juices during a detox.