Why Detox?

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The purpose of a detox program is to help remove toxins from your body tissues and body organs, from your water stores, fat deposits, and within your bloodstream. Natural cleansing is critical to remove body toxins, and protects from re-depositing them somewhere else in the body. With the right program you will learn how to identify the toxic sources in your life (internal and external).

Identify, Remove and Restore: The basic philosophy behind any effective detox program is to identify, remove, and restore.

- Identify what toxins are at the root of your health problems.
- Remove the toxins by cleansing your body.
- Restore lost nutrients.

Like pealing the layers off an onion, as each layer is removed through detoxification, the underlying layers reveal what's really behind disease symptoms. The deeper you go toward removing the 'core' of the problem, healing becomes long-term reality.

Ten Steps to Detoxification

Begin with detoxing your body of all residual chemical toxins and see if any adverse health symptoms remain. Try these steps for yourself, and within 30 days your symptoms ...
... should improve if not completely disappear.

The Ten Steps

1. Remove all chemicals from your diet.
2. Learn to 'read' your body. Begin recording any health changes.
3. Record your diet and lifestyle patterns over time.
4. Be happy with yourself.
5. Detoxify.
6. Restore depleted nutrients.
7. Exercise and get plenty of rest.
8. Eat 75% raw foods at every meal.
9. Drink water, water, water.
10. Get control of your life.

Do not overlook the fact that healing from disease and illness takes faith, personal strength, and perseverance. Curing illness and degenerative diseases with a mind-body approach might be considered old-fashioned and ineffective when compared to today's high tech prescriptions, but it's essential that human beings remember that the roots of disease and their cures are as old-fashioned as the body itself, and healing begins with SELF.

Good Nutrition Works

- Detox your body of all environmental and food chemicals you have been exposed to throughout your lifetime.

- Take the time to determine at which point you may have gotten off track nutritionally and what 'toxins' you have been exposed to.

- Restore depleted nutrients through proper supplements and whole foods.

Seattle nutrition and health expert Angela Pifer has been writing professionally since 2005, with her work published on MSN Health and Kashi.com. Pifer creates custom Seattle detox programs in her private practice with offices in Bellevue and Seattle, WA. Pifer holds Masters of Science in nutrition from Bastyr University.