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Rule 2: Eat Better

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The New Year is the time for beginning new habits. Some people, maybe most people, like to clean sweep old habits, flush things out, and start over. Look at the Internet ads about detoxing and cleansing: you can cleanse your system with programs that cost hundreds of dollars, using herbs no one has ever heard of, and end up spending hours in the bathroom.

Or you can simply eat better. That’s the objective of Real-Life Detox. There are foods that can help the detoxification system . . .

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The Detox Myth: Half Wrong

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When health experts criticize cleansing and detox programs, they attack the many questionable programs that are touted on the Internet. From colonics to foot pads, their criticism is correct. But they also get it half wrong.

Cleansing is another word for fasting, and there’s plenty of research to support a fast of two to four days to improve the immune system. But fasting doesn’t mean you get no calories; by definition, fasting is taking in fewer calories than your body needs. To make fasting more efficient, restricting calories to 800 or fewer seems to accomplish that task in . . .

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The Detox Myth: Half Right

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I’ll spend the next two blogs addressing the legitimacy of detox arguments that I’ve seen on several websites in their year-end health recommendations. When it comes to detox, they get it half right and half wrong. Today, the half right.

During presentations, I often describe some detox programs as something like standing outside on one foot during the full moon while drinking some lemon-pepper-maple syrup concoction with one hand while rubbing your belly with the other. There are some weird . . .

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