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DETOXIFICATION
Detoxification is a process whereby we increase the body’s ability to eliminate waste materials. Detoxification is an area of extreme importance to our health and is often overlooked by traditional medicine!

Here are some basic principles to follow:

Drink Enough Water:
Increase water consumption so that you can increase urinary output.

Water helps the body to cleanse and dilute impurities, balance pH, and provide a healthy flow of nutrients into cells and toxins out of cells. Tap water is filled with impurities and chemicals that should be avoided. We recommend that you purchase a good water filtration system for your home and start drinking the water! Most of us are walking around dehydrated. We need water! Drink up!

Avoid Food Additives!

Have you ever looked at the label on a food package and were unable to pronounce anything that was on the label? Foods, and even vitamins, are loaded with chemicals, dyes, and other unnatural substances. Be careful what you put into your mouth. Read before you eat.

Some of the most common food additives to avoid are the following:
• Aspartame
• Bromated Vegetable Oil: emulsifier in foods and clouding agent in soft drinks
• Citrus Red Dye No. 2: used to color orange skins
• Monosodium Glutamate: flavor enhancer used in fast, processed, or packaged foods
• Nitrites: used as preservatives in cured meats to prevent spoilage
• Sulfur Dioxide, Sodium Bisulfite, Sulfites: preserves dried fruits, shrimp, frozen potatoes; commonly used on salad bar foods
• Tertiary Butylhydroquinone: used to spray the inside of cereal and cheese packages
• Yellow Dye No. 6: used in candy and carbonated beverages as a coloring.

Have Regular Bowel Movements Every Day

Improve fiber intake until feces are soft in consistency and regular in frequency. This does not mean having a bowel movement every other day or every third day. It is ideal to have a bowel movement a few hours after every meal.

Fix Digestive Problems

Such as the need for digestive enzymes or hydrochloric acid to help with assimilation of food. The typical American diet is low in fiber, loaded with poisons, and devoid of natural enzymes.

Foods that Promote Detoxification

The process by which the body removes these harmful substances from the body is called detoxification. It generally involves the removal of the chemical substances via the bowels and urine. The primary organs used for detoxification are the liver, kidney, and skin. Foods and liquids that promote good defecation and urinary excretion are emphasized in the Hauser Diet.
• High fiber foods, especially fresh vegetables and fruits
• Whole grains
• Water: purified, not tap water
• Teas such as catechin, barberry, yarrow flower, milk thistle
• Yogurt with live cultures (if able to tolerate dairy foods)
• Onions
• Lecithin-containing foods such as soybeans and egg yolks

Eat Vegetables: Nature's Detoxifiers
Which vegetables do what and why!

Purple and Red Vegetables
Deeply pigmented plants have important anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties from substances in them including anthocyanidins. These are a type of complex flavonoid that produce blue, purple or red colors.

Orange, Yellow and Red-Orange Vegetables
Orange, yellow and red-orange foods are rich in carotenoids such as beta-carotene, lutein and lycopene. More than 600 carotenoids occur naturally, but carotenes are the most widely known. Carotenes, which destroy free radicals in lipids, enhance immune response and protect cells against UV radiation.

Green Vegetables
Green plants contain particularly large amounts of chlorophyll, which is a detoxifier. Foods rich in chlorophyll include chlorella and other blue-green algae, beet greens, bok choy, collards, dandelion greens, kale, mustard greens and nettles.

Another class of vegetables with potent detoxifying abilities are those of the crucifer family which includes broccoli, bok choy, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, mustard greens, radishes and turnips.