P.O.R.N. Diets

I am coining this term as I feel some of the diets out there are so radical they need to be discussed in one place.

We here from our favorite celebrities daily and some of us live for this. We follow them on Twitter, talk about them on Bebo and MySpace or e mail each other about them especially when a new diet is talked about.

There have been some over the top radical diets in the past like the 'Air diet', not a very popular one for obvious reasons unlike the 'Chocolate' diet. Then there is the more main stream 'Atkins' diet or 'The Dash Diet' or even 'The South Beach Diet'. All have there plus and minus points and their advocates and nay sayers as well.

The trick when it comes to diets if there is a trick in selecting one would be to thoroughly research the topic. The mere fact that there literally are thousands of diets commercially available shown on television, billboards or even your local Chemist shop.

Here will be many, many articles pertaining to the topic of P.O.R.N. Diets circulating our media and your opinion on them is most welcome. Maybe you have been on one and would like to praise it or maybe warn others away from it. Whatever you may like to share, diet related, please do.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Tips For Choosing A Good Detox Diet

By Chris Marex

Selecting a well-working detox diet is something that needs to be done when it's finally been decided to try to cleanse the body of impurities. Detox (detoxification, actually) is the short name for the process of flushing the body of accumulated heavy metals, free radicals and other substances in the bloodstream and organs and tissues of the body.

A lot of people on many occasions draw incorrect conclusions about what detox can do for them. It's not so much that they're wrong in thinking it can help draw out all the above-noted substances, though. Where they fall short is in believing just one detox will restore all the lost vigor and health that disappeared over a lifetime of poor diet and poor lifestyle choices. A single one can partially help, true.but it'll only be temporary unless a long-term plan for detox combined with a sensible diet and real lifestyle change is undertaken. Any detox is better than no detox, though.

But really, an occasional detox diet is only a semi-serious recovery program. Rather, in order to gain ultimate benefit from the process, it needs to be regular, structured, intelligent and comprehensive. It also should be combined with food and other lifestyle changes, though long term changes in these areas can be a bit more difficult to sustain. However, when done in such a manner, the potential benefits tend to be much greater in the long run.

So, what sorts of components (foods, juices, combinations of both) should go into an effective detox diet? Generally the best of them have two phases which help to bring about complete if temporary - when permanent substitution of good foods isn't done - changes in the body's make-up, or the manner in which it regulates itself.

The first phase is sometimes called a "flush." It can be a way for hitting the body hard, in terms of introducing a blend of natural juice combinations which have other foods - like Cayenne pepper and maple syrup, for example -- in them into the body. All of these juices are drunk down, though there are other ways of introducing flushing agents into the body, depending upon what area or system of the body is being addressed (colonics, for instance).

Detox diets can be designed to hit at certain systems and parts of the body. A popular detoxification involves going in and cleaning out the body's bloodstream. Most of the diets aimed at cleaning out blood are called "blood cleanses." They usually attempt to clean the blood of toxins and other substances in the blood from meals that were eaten in the recent past.

Most blood cleansings are not comprehensive detoxification, though. They do nothing to help remove heavy metals like mercury which can end up in the tissues and organs of the body. For this, what's called a "chelating" diet is undertaken, which is a second phase. People who undergo chelating, though, should understand that they may initially feel a little worse than they did prior to beginning it. This is because the chemicals drawn from the tissues must still be processed through the kidneys and liver before they're excreted naturally.

Going with a good detox diet can be a way to restore lost energy and vigor. It can help to negate the effects of bad diet and unhealthy lifestyle, which has caused a host of toxins and chemicals to accumulate in the body over the years. But in order to gain the most benefit, always make sure a change to a healthy diet is in the works, along with lifestyle modification like quitting cigarettes, for example.

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