To understand why chronic constipation is so unhealthy, you first
need to understand what’s going on in your guts – and your colon.
Here’s my “Constipation for Dummies” explanation:

Toxins are formed and absorbed when waste remains in the intestines.
Waste should be eliminated through the bowels on a regular basis – a
healthy colon eliminates waste in 6-18 hours. But the colon can’t do
its job properly if you haven’t given your body the diet it needs to
keep it in tip-top shape. The colon is a natural breeding ground for
bacteria, which is a good thing, because these bacteria neutralize and
prevent a toxic condition from developing in the colon. The problem is,
there are two types of bacteria: the good kind – the healthy,
scavenging variety – and the bad guys – the disease-producing kind. In
a clean, healthy environment, the healthy, scavenging bacteria will
control the bad bacteria. But they can’t do that when your colon is all
plugged up.

And that’s why eating food that is easy to digest will keep your
colon in good working order, which will keep you regular. Not to
mention healthier – and happier!

High-sugar, low-fibre diets that feature refined flour, rice and
pasta are exactly what you want to stay away from to avoid chronic
constipation. These diets are a recipe for sluggish peristaltic
muscles. And you need a smooth rhythmic contraction of muscles to
propel the contents of your stomach through the digestive tract.

Here are some diet recommendations that can keep constipation away: Read More

If you’re still wondering what kind of a holiday gift you should get for a loved one or even for yourself, you can stop wondering because I have the perfect gift for you.

For those of you who know me, you are aware that I am an avid juicer. In fact, I’ve been juicing for the past 15 years and I often recommend juicing as an integral component of any fast or cleanse.

For the past six years my juicer of choice has been the Kempo Juicer. When you purchase this juicer you will also receive my 7-Day Sugar Free Diet as and my Juicing for Health ebook as well.

Juicing is the easiest and healthiest ways to get in your fruit and veggies for the day in just one simple glass. Plus with so many different variations, there are endless juices you can make.

If you are a health devotee or if you know of someone who loves to be healthy or needs to become a bit healthier, giving a juicer is a fabulous gift that will help keep you healthy and fit all year round.

Pick up any medical journal or health magazine and you will find scores of articles that herald the important effects of eating a diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables. From preventing cancer to warding off heart disease and to slowing down the aging process, fruits and vegetables are a necessary part of any healthy lifestyle.

In Mediterranean, Asian and African countries, the diseases that we here in the West are all too familiar with like heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure are virtually absent. What research has showed us is that many of these conditions can be attributed to diet and lifestyle. Countries like Japan and Greece have low rates of these diseases in large part due to their significant daily consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables.

You’ll need a juicer for this one:

Juice:

• 2 cups spinach
• 2 cups cucumber
• 1 head of celery
• 1/2 inch or teaspoon ginger root
• 1 bunch parsley
• 2 apples
• Juice of 1 lime
• Juice of 1/2 lemon

This week I shared the Morning Meal! So, here’s my favorite one: JUICING

Yes, those smoothies are excellent for your breakfast, and they are much better than breakfast cereal that contains 50% sugar, but let’s talk now about juicing.

You know, I can’t stress enough how keeping your menu to liquids in the morning is an excellent way to aid your body’s natural repair cycles.

Green juices are fantastic for the morning! Because our bodies are usually far too acidic, green juices give us a balancing, settling way to help flush out all of the bad things while imparting the good ones.

Along with many of my clients, I like to start the day with a cleansing green drink because of all the alkaline minerals found in leafy greens. When you wake up, you have literally been fasting for 8-10 hours, so it’s a good idea to flush out your system with high water-content fruits, a green smoothie, or a green juice. Click here for Recipes

It’s a much healthier alternative to coffee.

A natural stimulant – without the side effects and toxicity of coffee – remarkably, it induces better (not worse) attributes of sleep.

Yerba Mate contains many essential vitamins and nutrients Truly a drink for body and soul, the Guarani Indians – the ultimate experts – have relied on the drink for centuries as a principle part of their diet. They believe it is good for:

• boosting immunity
• detoxifying the body
• reducing blood pressure
• toning the nervous system
• controlling appetite
• curing insomnia
• retarding aging
• reducing fever

Plus, research now supports the claims that yerba mate can help:

diabetes - by balancing blood sugar levels
constipation - by stimulating digestion
hypertension – by relaxing peripheral blood vessels
high cholesterol – by inhibiting the oxidation of LDL
allergy & hay fever – by reducing symptoms

For More info: Yerba Mate

A.M. ( upon Awakening)

• Drink one or two glasses of pure water with lemon ( 16-32 ounces)
• Have a good quality green drink powder or 1 ounce of fresh wheat grass  Of course the morning cleanse could be coupled with breaking the caffeine habit.

Your colon will thank you:)

One way to give up coffee with less discomfort is by gradually replacing coffee with herbal replacements until no more coffee is consumed.  It takes 60 days for your body to eliminate all the caffeine and really see the results. But this could be accelerated by a short fast, or a raw food eliminating diet, such as a strict raw fruits and vegetables diet.

There are also coffee replacements that can be used to give up coffee.  You will lower caffeine intake by drinking grain-coffee blends, diluted or smaller amounts of regular coffee and decaffeinated coffee. You’ll also incorporate some herbal teas to use in place of coffee that can be both stimulating and refreshing. The roasted herbal roots, including barley, chicory, and dandelion, are most popular.  Grain "coffees," such as Barley coffee, cafix, inka, ostum, Pero, Raja’s cup and Teechino will also work.  Herbal teas made from lemon grass, peppermint, ginger root, red clover, and comfrey are very nourishing, and do not have depleting side effects.   

In addition, vitamin C supplementation helps during withdrawal by supporting adrenal glands.  As a stress-reducer, several grams more of vitamins can be taken over the course of the day, preferably in a buffered form especially with the main alkaline minerals potassium, calcium, and magnesium as well as zinc.

Of course, if you do like a cup of coffee and can’t commit to give it up I can offer this important tip that most don’t know about.  Consider treating yourself to drink coffee in the mid-to-late afternoon.  Although it is the opposite of most people’s morning routines of using caffeine as their wake-up call and for energy through the day; the afternoon cup best fits our body’s natural cycle, avoiding the high-adrenal morning and late pre-sleep hours. Try committing yourself to either the colon cleanse or a commitment to give up caffeine, if not both; and welcome a new healthy year for yourself.

Fresh juices are the internal baths of health and youth

~ Dr. Paavo Airola

Have you ever tried bathing and nurturing the inside of your body on a regular basis? You can do it through juice fasting, a remarkably effective way to heal and nourish your internal organs, glands, and systems.

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Our bodies are a wonderful thing. Even while we’re sleeping, they’re rebuilding themselves. New blood cells. New bone cells. New tissue cells. New brain cells! It’s truly out with the old and in with the new each year. Of course, some tissue takes longer to replace than others. The liver, for example, needs regeneration every three weeks or so.

It’s little wonder. As one of the largest organs in the body, the liver is busy 24/7 performing many important jobs. Among other things, it cleanses the body of toxins and bacteria, produces bile to help
digest food, and gathers and stores important nutrients, such as vitamins, for our bodies to use later. With such a key role, it’s critical for the liver to stay healthy. And that’s why it needs to rebuild itself so often. Read More

A.M. Liver Cleanse

• 1 large grapefruit
• 2 lemons
• 1 cup of filtered water
• 1 tablespoon of cold pressed flax oil
• 1 inch of fresh root ginger
• Dash of cayenne pepper (optional)

Squeeze the juice of the grapefruit and lemon into a blender. Next, grate the ginger and squeeze this into the juice. Add the water and oil, then blend for 30 seconds. Add more ginger.

This juice contains all the most potent ingredients to cleanse your liver, giving a gentle flush. For best results, drink it 30 minutes before breakast.

If you’re pressed for time and want to keep it simple, try this instead:

Hot Grapefruit Water

• 3 1/2 cups boiling water
• 1/2 cup fresh grapefruit juice

Place the water in a large jug; stir in juice. Drink up!

So many people have requested this famous detoxifying and weight loss recipe, an excellent spring cleansing regime. Drink 12 ounces of this mixture every two hours from morning to night for 2 to 3 days for an excellent full body cleanse:

• 2 tablespoons organic lemons, freshly squeezed
• 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
• dash of cayenne pepper
• 1 cup of spring water (warm or hot)

A colonic is it’s pretty much a glorified enema. Everybody understands the concept of an enema, which is using purified water to gently cleanse out the large intestine. What generally happens is a person comes and we take them into the room and they have towel that they’re able to cover themselves up with. There’s an abdominal massage that’s administered during the session all the way through. The reason why we do this is to gently help to get things moving and just to give me, as a practitioner, an idea of what’s going on with a person and, once we’ve got the water flowing and everything is pretty much moving, you just lie there comfortably, or as comfortably as you can possibly be, and every once in a while we’re going to tie off the larger tubing because there’s two tubes, one that’s coming out from the actual inverted tank itself and the other one that’s going out to
the sewage system.

Now we close of the larger tube so that the person’s bowel will fill up with the water and then, once you feel that you’re full, you just give us the cue in order to release. Whatever has to come out is going to come out and I always tell people it’s slightly
uncomfortable because obviously it’s not a procedure that we want to have done, okay, but it should not hurt. So you’ve got 45 minutes to an hour that you’re on that bed and pretty much I yet have to see a person get off and not be shocked by what they see being expelled.

Read more:

Interviewing Joey Varone, a colon hydro
therapist from Body Care Clinic in Toronto. To get the complete transcript interview!! Click Here