Detox doesn't have to be about self-denial.

A less extreme approach to cleansing and energising your body where you eat fresh, healthy food, exercise and increase water intake rather than cutting food out altogether, means you're far more likely to integrate healthy eating into your daily life for longer. Here are electronichealing.co.uk's top tips to a detox programme you can manage at home to help you:

• Boost your energy levels
• Release toxins trapped in body fat and cells
• Assist weight loss
• Improve metabolism
• Help Relieve stress with the emission of negative ions
• Reduce aches, pains, headaches and tiredness

Detox gradually: Slowly integrating detoxifying foods into your life also means you are more likely to integrate these foods into your daily routine for longer, rather than seeing detox as a hardship and therefore more likely to give it up.
A less extreme approach where you eat fresh healthy food, rather than cutting food out altogether, means you suffer fewer side effects such as bad headaches and diarrhea. It also allows you to carry on with life without feeling ill or tired.

Go for tasty food: Of course, fruit and vegetables are very important components of a healthy diet, but the idea that you should exist solely on such foods for days on end isn't consistent with the principle of a healthy balanced diet. Your daily diet should contain at least five portions of fruit and vegetables as well as lean meat, carbohydrates and dairy products.
That's why eating a variety of delicious food blended from fresh herbs and spices means you are far more likely to stick to healthy eating.

Increase exercise and aerobic activity: Exercise brings much needed oxygen into your body, it elevates your good hormones and you can function at a more optimal level. No detox is complete without exercise. Here, we believe in making exercise fun! Our Deluxe Chi Machine energises and revitalises.  It improves circulation, oxygenates blood, and assists with constipation (one of the major causes for lethargy and a sluggish system).  Simply lie down, breath, and enjoy. It even lowers the tone in the legs (free physio). When it switches itself off, you tingle and can really feel the Chi (Energy) and flowing around your body and you just lie there for a few more minutes enjoy it all in a deeply relaxed state.
And the best thing is once you have invested in the machine, it is yours to use as much or as little as you like for life, as therapy units go, that makes it extremely cost effective.

Kick-start your regime: The Dual Ionic Energizer Foot-Spa starts the process of rebalancing your body's bio-energy field. It effectively rebalances the cells equilibrium of positive and negative ions which, in turn, ‘kick start’ the dispersal of unwanted toxins.  The result will be renewed energy levels, both physical and mental, with a general feeling of well being.

Cut out caffeine and alcohol: Cutting down slowly, rather than cutting out stimulants altogether, is a more effective way to maintain a detox regime, claim naturopaths. Cutting down your caffeine intake for example, or making it weaker than normal, will stop you suffering from severe symptoms such as headaches often associated with extreme detoxes.  For alcohol, limit yourself to one glass of wine a night and if you are a smoker, cut down to a few before cutting out nicotine altogether.

Drink plenty of water: Drink at least one big bottle of water a day, say naturopaths. Sipping it, rather than gulping it throughout the day, means you can avoid taking in air which can lead to inflammation. Although our bodies are made up of around 75 per cent of water, as we unconsciously perspire all day, the body loses water vital for the function of our organs. Water regulates the temperature of our bodies, it keeps our skin moisturised from within, it helps food move through the gut and flushes out toxic material through urine.  Move over to an alkalizing diet and drink alkaline water it’s the best form of natural detoxification and a glass of alkaline water has the same antioxidant power as a glass of fresh orange juice!

Take lots of fresh air: Going for regular brisk walks helps bring fresh oxygen to our lungs and helps our blood to circulate more efficiently. This action helps to move toxins around our body towards our kidneys and liver where it is flushed out of the body.

Avoid refined foods: Refined foods such as white bread and pasta which don't contain as much fibre as wholegrain foods such as brown rice and bread tend to sit in the digestive system for longer which can encourage bacteria to form. Wholemeal foods stimulate enzymes in the large intestine to be released which helps break down food and flush it out of the body.

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