Raw foods are not only limited to salads.

Vegan refers a diet that is free from all animal products.  Many of the foods that we have available in the U.S. have animal by-products or are actual animal products themselves.  For example, no vegan would eat an obvious meat choice like chicken or pork.  Likewise, they will not eat eggs or fish either.  For that matter, strict vegans do not eat cheese, milk, or any other product that requires an animal to produce directly or indirectly.  Gelatin, for example is an animal by-product and is found in certain mints and other desert items.  A vegan would not eat these items.  This type of diet is definitely hard to maintain in our culture of fast and convenient.  However, it is also this pace of life and diet that is leading to say much of the accumulation of toxins in our bodies.  So, a good place to learn how to detox might just be in a vegan’s home.

So, vegans and raw food purists have a lot in common.  For a moment, let’s discuss the specific benefits of eating raw foods as part of your detox diet.  There can be a lot to manage when you first get into detoxing your body programs.  You can make your life much simpler by picking some type of process and just sticking with it.  Now, for most raw foodists, this is not some fad or temporary diet.  They eat this way for all food at each meal.  You may find that this approach speaks to you as well.  First, begin your detox process by eating organic raw fruits and vegetables.  Not only will they provide much needed vitamins and nutrients, but the added fiber will help clean your colon.  Additionally, if you supplement with certain herbs or other health products, make sure you are going with the organic remedies – again, same reason as eating raw.  Drinking pure water in very adequate amounts is also a critical aspect to your detox.

Specifically, when you are eating raw foods, you will be getting the most active and alive aspects of the foods into your system.  With a lifetime of toxic accumulation, this is one of the best things you can do.  Your colon and other body tissues are constantly interacting with other microorganisms and such to keep you healthy.  When the accumulation of toxins and waste products builds up to a critical level, your body vitality and function will suffer.  The cells and tissues of your body will not be getting the ideal nourishment even from the foods you put into your body.  Once you are cleansed, then you can begin to rebuild your intestinal health and vibrant well-being again.

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So, for the sake of this article, let’s assume that you are wanting to do a body detox and lose some weight or cleanse your colon or what ever you have in mind for your physical cleansing aspect.  If you only focused on that one aspect of your detox, you would not get nearly the results you had hoped for.  For example, what people find is that when they are trying to lose weight with a detox diet, if there are other factors that are inhibiting their cleanse, the weight will not come off.  Then, what happens is you will end up blaming the supplements or the diet itself, when the real problem might be that you are not addressing other core toxic issues in one of these other aspects mentioned.

Addressing Your Mental Detox

Toxic emotional and mental thoughts are also a problem.

A big part of what keeps our bodies holding onto all sorts of toxins is that energetically we don’t know how to release them.  Your body is only the physical structure that is a manifestation or symbol of your emotional, mental and spiritual self.  What you are holding in those other areas will show up in your physical body.  So, in order to really do a thorough body cleanse, you will need to address these issues at some point.  It doesn’t have to mean a bunch of sessions with a therapist or counselor to address your past.  It may involve this if you think that this is an area you could use help with, but it need not.

The whole point is that you are one symbiotic and holistic body.  There are other factors at work than just your diet as a reason why you are accumulating toxins in your cells and tissues.  If your body is functioning at its optimum level, then much of this toxic debris and waste will be naturally flushed through your body’s natural elimination means.  This happens through your breathing (your lungs are a big source of toxic elimination), your sweat by way of exercise and through body elimination processes (urine and stools).  The only reason that your body may be more sluggish in eliminating a build-up of toxins in your colon is because one or all of these aspects of the body detox are not being fully addressed.

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