Crussh, one of London and the south-east's leading juice and smoothie stores, has put together some useful tips and advice on how to keep yourself detoxed, healthy and happy.
Lemon and hot water
Start your journey to great health with a big mug of hot water and a couple of slices of lemon. Squeeze the lemon to break the pulp sacs and release the lemon juice into the water. The hot water will start your rehydration and will help dilute toxins left in your body. The perfect breakfast drink (and cheaper than a latte!)
Don’t grease up your body, oil it!
Good quality oil contains essential fatty acids and isn’t as difficult for the body to break down as saturated fats. These are found in vegetable and seed oils, avocado, nuts and oily fish (tuna, sardines, mackerel, salmon and herring). Try to avoid butter and margarine, fatty cuts of meat and full creamed products to give your liver a rest.
Colour me Happy
Your daily diet should consist of roughly 40% fruits and vegetables and the easiest way to ensure that you are not only getting a good variety but that you consume a variety of vitamins and minerals is to eat as many different colours as possible...
Red: Tomatoes, Beetroot, Strawberries
Orange: Carrot, Butternut squash, Apricot
Yellow: Yellow pepper, Banana, Pineapple
Blue: Aubergine, Blueberry, Blackberry
Green: Cucumber, Spinach, Green apples
Fibre Fibre Fibre
If you do want to help cleanse your system, you need to work with your body’s natural detoxifying system. Therefore eating a lot of roughage (foods high in fibre) will help to clean out your bowels. Foods high in fibre include wholemeal and granary breads, cereals, fruits and vegetables eaten with the their skin on, beans and lentils, brown rice and wholemeal pasta. Bran (oat, wheat, rice) can be sprinkled on top of your cereal or porridge and adding seeds to your meal also increases your daily fibre intake. Drink plenty of water if you are eating a high fibre diet to prevent dehydration.
Get Raw
In order to get the most out of your fruit and vegetables, it can be best to eat them raw, as nature intended. That way you don’t lose any of the nutrients spoiled or even lost in the cooking process.
Swap caffeine for wheatgrass
On an empty stomach the high levels of chlorophyll and phytochemicals present in just one ounce of wheatgrass will give you a wake-up shot, just like you get from coffee. A wheatgrass shot is high in minerals like iron and calcium and the life giving properties in the chlorophyll will help kill germs and heal wounds.
Bin the fry up!
There’s nothing like a good hearty breakfast to plug the hole after a hangover but instead of a full English that is high in saturated fats and cholesterol, a great alternative is a healthy serve of porridge topped with high potassium slices banana and natural agave syrup. The low GI porridge will keep you going all the way till dinner and make it with Jumbo oats and soya milk, it will not only be low in cholesterol, but the high levels of fibre will help provide all the roughage you need to take away the toxins from the night before.
Walk it off
Oxygen, oxygen, oxygen. Fresh air will help bring oxygen to the brain to speed up your metabolism and an energetic walk will get the circulation going helping to neutralize toxins more quickly.
Try Cruush's recipe for a veggie invigorator
For those of you that struggle to get your vegetables down, this recipe offers the perfect way to help your body detox and revive, whilst cramming in some well-disguised vegetable goodness!
- Take two vine-ripened tomatoes straight out of the fridge, along with one celery stick, a teaspoon of ginger, a squeeze of lemon juice and one grated carrot. Juice together in a blender. Serve with a couple of ice cubes and drink, for a refreshing, healthy kick.
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