10 Reasons to Start a Detox Diet Today

Detoxing your body with a special diet can help you greatly improve your body’s internal cleaning process.

The human body carries out an amazing range of physical and chemical processes within any given day. The body’s ability to clean out wastes and harmful materials is one of these processes and no less amazing.

Within most all its intricate systems, the body can maintain a certain equilibrium when what comes in doesn’t exceed what goes out. Likewise, its detox mechanisms can only accommodate so much waste and toxins before excess build-up start to affect a person’s overall health.

Environmental pollutants, most notably PBTs, or persistent bioaccumulative toxicants, have invaded the environmental landscape, as air, water and landmasses continue to absorb these harmful chemicals. According to the U. S. National Library of Medicine, the Environmental Protection Agency has approved and registered over 80,000 chemicals for use, with as many as 2000 new chemicals approved on a yearly basis.

Detox diets provide unsuspecting “consumers” a needed line of defense against the chemicals contained in food. With so many harmful materials being consumed on a daily basis, the body’s detox mechanisms have little chance of maintaining its various systems in a healthy state.

For anyone considering starting a detox diet, here are 10 good reasons to start one today:

1. The Food Chain

Since humans exist at the top of the food chain, environmental toxins build-up with each link in the chain. As a result, humans are most at risk of consuming an accumulation of toxins depending on the types of foods a person eats.

2. Chemical Exposures

Both organic and inorganic toxins enter the food chain in the form of:

• Hormones given to animals
• Antibiotics given to animals
• Pesticides
• herbicides
• Synthetic fertilizers

3. Toxic Colon Syndrome

Diets rich in fatty, processed foods and low in fiber weaken the digestive tract over time. Weakened digestive processes make for partially digested food that lingers inside the digestive tract. These food materials eventually rot and produce toxic byproducts of their own. According to Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences this condition is known as toxic colon syndrome.

4. Stress Toxins

Cortisol, a hormone secreted during times of stress, can have toxic effects on normal chemical process when excess amounts remain in the body.

5. Pharmaceutical medications

Synthetic chemical components present in medications, vitamins and supplements can build-up in the body over time.

6. Environmental Toxins

When inhaled, environmental toxins, such as formaldehydes, carbon emissions and even cigarette smoke can accumulate in the body much like leftover food toxins.

7. Weakened Immune System

The combined effects from incoming toxin materials ultimately weakens the body’s immune system, making it more prone to sickness and disease.

8. Common Disease Types

Years of toxin build-up in the body greatly contributes to the development of diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

9. The Body’s Detoxing Abilities

Detox diets pick up where the body’s detoxing abilities leave off in terms of clearing out the excess toxin materials ingested each day.

10. Body Detox Benefits

Detox diets activate the body’s own detox mechanisms, while strengthening the body’s immune system. In effect, a strong immune system helps prevent toxin imbalances from overwhelming normal chemical processes.