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Raw Foods for Detox Diet

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A toxin free body paves the way for enjoying a good health. Fasting helps to detoxify the body to a great extent. But it is impossible to a great number of people to follow complete fasting like for example, water fasting. However, having raw unprocessed food also increases the rate of detoxification process. This article discusses the importance of including raw foods in detox diet.

Whatever the diet plan you follow, it should meet the basic requirements of the body to carry out the metabolic functions. This can be best achieved by including fruits and vegetables in your diet. One such diet that includes fruits, as part of detox diet, is monotrophic diet. Individuals following this diet should have only one type of fruit as a meal. For example, you can have melons for breakfast. But the rule is, to not mix the varieties of fruits like having melons along with grapes. The beauty of this meal is that you can have as much quantity of the fruit as you want, until you feel satisfied. Likewise, follow for lunch and dinner. This dietary plan has to be followed for about ten days. Make sure not to strain yourself too much when you are on detox diet. After this ten day strict monotrophic diet, you can consider including vegetables, chopped onions, celery, grated carrot or beetroot, cabbage and such in your diet. To meet the fatty acid requirement of the body, it is essential to include nuts and seeds. However, do not consume salted nuts.

Non-vegetarians might feel that it is very hard to practice a vegetarian diet that is full of raw foods. However, if you are very much dissatisfied, you can consider including salmon fish once in a week. Other raw foods that can be included in the detox diet include legumes, grains, seaweed, nuts and seeds, coconut water, freshly made fruit and vegetable juices.

The key requirement for planning a detox diet is eliminating processed junk foods such as pasta, cooked rice and the like. Initially, it might be hard to shift from your normal diet to a raw food, rich detox diet. For shifting purposes, the above given foods are eliminated in the first step. Then, start including whole grains, fruits and vegetables. The amount of raw foods in the diet is slowly increased. At any point in time, make sure not to include too much of raw foods in the diet. It results in extensive colon cleansing, which proves dangerous in some cases.

For effective results, it is recommended to follow colon cleansing techniques, such as enema once in a month. As detox diet is intended to eliminate toxins out of the body, it is not very important to follow exercise regime. However, practice of moderate degree of exercises enables you to have perfect health. Some people fear that being on detox diet results in nutrient deficiency and start using supplements to meet the body requirements. But it is not essential. As you will be consuming plenty of fruits and vegetables, all your body requirements such as calorie needs, vitamins and minerals will be met. Hence, effective planning of detox diet as per the above given guidelines helps you to lose weight very easily within a very short period.