Free Ways To Remove Toxins From The Body For Healthy Skin

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Have you ever applied all sorts of expensive creams or cleansers and wondered why your skin continued to look unhealthy? That is because healthy skin comes from the inside out. Remember, your skin is an organ, and like all organs, it benefits from a healthy, toxin-free diet.

Here are some dietary steps you can take to have healthy, beautiful skin:

1. Stay hydrated

• You have probably heard about the importance of drinking water to stay healthy and cleanse the system, and that includes your skin. Make sure you are drinking plenty of water, at least six, 8oz. glasses a day. In fact, all fluids you drink count towards your daily hydration needs, but limit caffeinated beverages as they have diuretic and dehydrating effects.

• Add a squeeze of lemon juice to cleanse your liver. In traditional Chinese medicine, poor skin indicates an unhealthy liver.

2. Bring on the fats

• For your skin to remain plump and supple, applying moisturizers can help, but taking healthy fats into your system will also have a deeper, healthier effect on your skin.

• Flax, olive, and fish oils, as well as expeller-pressed cooking oils like safflower or canola, should be incorporated into the diet. Eat fatty, cold-water fish such as salmon at least once a week, but make sure it is from a reputable source so that you are not adding to your body's toxic overload by eating fish that have lived in toxic waters.

3. Fresh fruits and vegetables

• In addition to hydrating the body, fresh veggies and fruits provide vital skin-healthy nutrients and antioxidants, such as vitamins A, C and E and toxin-absorbing fiber. Lightly steamed or raw are the ideal ways to consume these foods, in order to preserve their vitamin and antioxidant powers.

4. Nuts and seeds

• These little gems include important blood-building nutrients like iron, and healthy circulation and blood are key to good skin health.

• Nuts and seeds also contain healthy fats which, as noted above, keep the skin smooth and glowing.

5. Go organic

• If you have not already, switch to organic foods. Your body needs to be as free from toxins as possible for your skin to be healthy, and organic food is not contaminated with synthetic herbicides, pesticides, or

fertilizers.

• These harmful substances can also cause hormonal imbalances, which are strongly implicated in acne and other skin problems. This goes for produce, as well as meats and dairy products. Speaking of dairy products...

6. Limit dairy products

• Except for plain yogurt, you should sharply limit your dairy intake if you want healthier skin. Our modern dairy products are likely to contain hormones or antibiotics, and they contain animal fat which does not promote healthy skin.

7. Limit junk and fast foods

These "foods" are full of artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, and unhealthy fats. Cleanse your skin from the inside by eating whole, fresh foods instead.

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7 More Nutrition Tips That Help Keep Your Body Free of Toxins

You may have heard about cleansing diets or fasts, but if you want to keep your system clean, it comes down to what you eat every day. If you want to keep your body at its best, here are some tips toward maintaining optimal nutrition.

1. Eat Organic, Whole Foods

This is rather basic, but very important. Whole foods are those that have undergone the least processing, but they do not have to be eaten exclusively raw.

Examples include whole grains, fresh fruits, and vegetables, grass-fed and free-range meats that are not processed into preserved meat products, and natural sweeteners.

Your system will not be clean if you continually pump it full of unhealthy foods. This does not mean you can never indulge, but it does mean that your diet should consist of at least 80 percent whole, organic foods. That way, when you do choose to indulge, your body can handle it and eliminate the toxins on its own.

2. Replace White with Brown

This is a basic nutritional rule of thumb for optimal nutrition. Replace all refined or "white" foods with whole or "brown" foods. It's not the color of the food (white popcorn, for example, is very nutritious); it's the level of refinement.

For example• White flour/Whole wheat flour• White sugar/Raw, unfiltered honey, blackstrap molasses, or Sucanat (natural sugarcane)• White rice/Brown rice• Pasta made from refined flour/Whole grain pasta

3. Probiotics

These friendly bacteria are important for helping the body keep itself cleansed, and keep intestinal flora in balance. Sources include yogurt, miso (a fermented soybean paste), and supplements.

4. Choose Nutrient-Dense Foods

These are foods that provide the most nutrient value for their caloric value. In other words, they are the opposite of "empty calorie" foods like candy, pop, or fried potato chips that are full of calories but lacking nutrients.

Nutrient-dense foods are not necessarily low-calorie (although they can be) - avocados and nuts are examples - but for their calories they deliver large amounts of nutrients.

5. Fiber

High-fiber diets are essential to keeping the intestinal system clean. Fiber bulks up bowel movements, taking toxins along with it as it moves along the intestinal tract.

Healthy choices for high fiber are whole grains, including air-popped or stove-top popcorn (not microwave popcorn, as it may contain some dubious chemicals), fruits, vegetables, beans, and legumes.

6. Do Not Be Afraid to Supplement

The supplement debate is likely never to be resolved, but supplements are worth looking into in today's often nutrient-deficient culture.

If you are not getting enough vitamins, minerals, fiber, or probiotics from your diet - and such dietary goals can be difficult to reach - consider supplementing with a natural multivitamin, minerals, probiotics, or fiber source (such as psyllium husks).

7. You Are What You Drink

Do not forget to drink plenty of water. Add a few generous squeezes of lemon juice to your first glass of water in the morning for a liver-cleansing tonic.

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