This program is a step-by-step guide for a 7-day fall body cleanse. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced cleanser, the program provides you with a distinct meal plan for each of the 7 days. Plus, it includes long-term maintenance plans so you can incorporate this approach into a new, healthy eating and cleansing routine.

If you’ve never tried body cleansing, you may be wondering exactly what it is and what it involves. Believe me when I say that it will be thoroughly explained to you as you go through the program. I’ve packed a lot of amazing information into this program that is meant to teach, educate, and inform you about cleansing and healthy eating. Detox Program

They are twelve times more nutritious than the average vegetable.

They are rich in minerals and vital trace minerals that we can barely find even in the richest organic soil, especially iodine, iron, B6, B12, magnesium and many others.

Sea vegetables are generally sold in dehydrated form, and if they’re stored in an airtight container in a cool, dark place, such as a kitchen cupboard or pantry, they will keep indefinitely. Because they’re dry when purchased, sea vegetables require soaking in water prior to use. Two exceptions are nori sheets and kelp, both of which can be eaten right out of the package.

Sea vegetables help your body in numerous ways:

• Weight Management - The thyroid gland is under attack these days. More people have thyroid issues than ever before. Sea vegetables are a tonic for thyroid function, and increasing thyroid function can be beneficial for weight loss.
• Beautiful Skin – With their internal moisturizing properties, improved detoxification results, and high concentration of skin-friendly nutrients, sea vegetables are huge in the natural beauty industry.
• Remove Radioactive Compounds – Brown seaweed binds and expels radioactive isotopes from the thyroid gland. Detoxification is essential in the post-industrial age.
• Remove Heavy Metals - Our ancestors never had to deal with cadmium, mercury and lead the way we do now. Sea vegetables (Wakame, Arame, Hijiki, and Kombu) help the body efficiently detox these industrial waste products.

Stay home (or go away) and do a juice fast:

Once you introduce juice fasting into your life routine, you’ll start to notice positive changes on all levels of your being. You may feel more physically energized, more mentally alert, or your moods may be lighter and brighter.

2. Sweat. In a sauna (not a steam room — too much chlorine is in the steam), or a hot yoga class, or in a hot bath followed a snuggling under warm covers, let yourself sweat. It helps the skin, your largest organ of detoxification, do its job.

4. Rebound, i.e., bounce on a mini-trampoline. All exercise is good, of course, but a mini-tram is supposed to particularly target the lymphatic system and help it do its clean-up tasks. The lymphatic system has no pump like the heart, so it can use some help. I do my 5-minute warm-up at the gym on a mini-tram.

5. Scrape your tongue first thing in the morning. Your body does a lot of detoxing during sleep, and that coating on your tongue when you wake up (in Ayurveda, they call it ama, metabolic debris) needs to come off before your first drink of water. They sell inexpensive tongue scrapers in the dental care aisle at health food stores and many drugstores.

6. Use a neti pot. The yogis have long recommended “sinus bathing” as a part of enlightened hygiene, and you can purchase a neti pot (beautiful ceramic ones and low-cost plastic models) at most health food stores. You fill it with warm water made into a saline solution by the addition of some finely ground salt and, following instructions, let the water flow into one nostril and out the other; then do the other side. This is not always a pleasant experience, but it definitely clears your head, is a godsend during allergy season, and I swear by it after plane flights.

7. Dry body brush. Before your bath or shower, use a special dry body brush (ask at the health food store: this is a brush with a removable handle, meant to be used on dry body skin) to buff your skin, starting with the feet. Then work up, using upward strokes on the calves and thighs, fingers-to-shoulders moves on your arms, and gentler round motions on your abdomen, hips, and chest; this is not for the face. It helps the skin to detox, removes dead skin cells, is warming and energizing, and in Europe even standard MDs claim that it helps diminish cellulite.

8. Enemas and colonics. I include these because they’re standard-issue detox practices and many, many people swear by them. They say that we have toxic build-up in the colon that’s been there for years and needs to be washed out.

9. Get away to somewhere clean and quiet. By “clean,” I mean where the air is pure (mountains, ocean) and where electro-magnetic-field radiation is at a minimum. Some people are irritated that they can’t get much cell phone reception, but it’s really a blessing. If you can get away for even one weekend a season, it’ll help.

10. Eat raw food and think loving thoughts. Okay, that’s two suggestions, but seriously: just eating a high-raw, plant-based diet, even without fasting or a juice diet, will go far toward your detoxification efforts. If you find yourself having a “detox crisis” — headaches, fatigue — rest, eat lightly, and let it pass, or rest, eat more heavily (add in more cooked food), and slow down the detox process to a comfortable rate. And your thoughts are ever important: make them loving, to yourself, your body, and everyone in your world. That way, you detox negativity from deep, deep inside.

The quickest way to lose weight is to eat healthy, detoxify your body, use some good supplements for weight management, and exercise daily!

So if you missed the interview, here’s the excerpt regarding what we talked about:

Obesity and weight gain is directly related to chemicals and toxins that you’re not getting out of the body. Toxins and chemicals are stored in the fat cells. I haven’t seen one overweight person or anybody suffering from obesity or weight gain who isn’t completely riddled with heavy metals, chemicals, and all kinds of other toxins in their system.

Dr. Edward F. Group

Most of that is coming in, obviously, through the diet and drinks they’re consuming, the prescription medications they’re on, or something else.

The reason I put cleansing the liver as the most important for weight loss is that the liver is the organ that detoxifies all of the chemicals and toxins that come into the body, and it also helps metabolize fat by producing bile. Bile is actually stored in the gallbladder.

Bile increases the surface tension of the fat molecules that come in or decreases the surface tension so it can work with the enzyme lipase to emulsify the fat at a faster rate. That’s why a lot of people get stuck in the cycle of trying to lose weight.

They can’t lose weight, and they’re trying all these different techniques. It’s because their liver is congested, and the liver becomes fatty.

It starts accumulating a lot of fat. The first thing that I always recommend everybody do if they’re trying to lose weight is to do a liver and gallbladder cleanse. Actually, I recommend they do three of them.

In most cases, after that the liver can start processing and metabolizing fat a lot faster. They can get rid of that fat that they’ve had such a hard time trying to lose.

It’s very simple to realize that when you look at the functions that the liver and the gallbladder do. What amazes me is how simple it is to not only fix weight loss but to fix any degenerative disease. I don’t know why that information isn’t out there. It’s just very simple. The liver is the main organ that’s going to metabolize your fat and all your toxins.

You would only think that medical professionals and everybody else would be saying weight gain and obesity is directly related to a fatty and malfunctioning liver that’s only functioning at about 10% to 20% capacity. Those individuals keep loading more sugars. It’s like what you talk about a lot: they put more refined sugars and toxins into their body, and their liver is overworked.

It can never catch up with the ability to emulsify and break down the amount of fats that people are putting in and detoxify all the harmful chemicals that are coming in at the same time. It’s basically overworked and stressed. It becomes fatty, and that’s what leads to the majority of the weight gain.

In my weight loss ebook, I have the number one secret: it’s the liver and gallbladder cleansing and to do three liver and gallbladder cleansings. Ultimately, it is better to do an intestinal cleanse oxy powder first, which is the number two secret in my ebook. The reason is that you want to have the intestines clean enough so when the liver starts dumping all of that fatty toxic buildup that’s been accumulating for so long, it moves down the intestines and you have a normal bowel movement to get it out.

If you do an intestinal cleanse and you use a good oxygen-based cleanser first, then your intestines are going to be clean. Not only that, but you’re probably going to lose anywhere from six to 40 pounds just by doing a six- or seven-day intestinal cleanse. The average weight is about six pounds, but I’ve had people in six to 14 days lose 40 pounds. It’s not fat.

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Overeating is something that many of us are guilty of at one point or another. As an example, imagine a late night out for dinner consisting of a hearty steak with a compliment of potatoes, wine, desert, and maybe more.

This combination of food can sit in your intestinal tract for days, not digesting properly.

If it sits in your intestinal tract too long, the steak with putrefy, carbohydrates will ferment and the fats will turn rancid causing a massive production of toxins in the bowel.

This will most likely make you feel miserable and sluggish the next few days.

It’s not recommended that anyone should eat like this, certainly not on a regular basis. If you find that you’ve splurged like this, it’s a good idea to expel this toxic material as soon as possible. An overnight colon cleanse is a fast, easy way to accomplish this.

• Does not contain Harmful Herbs which can damage the delicate intestinal lining.
• It cleanses, flushes, and detoxifies your colon while you SLEEP – How easy is that!
• Can be used safely 2-3 times weekly to maintain normal bowel function or flush out heavy meals after episodes of overeating. Weekly use prevents food from putrefying, fermenting and turning rancid in your bowels which causes toxins to leak into your body.

By performing this cleanse you will eliminate the previous night’s meal the following day, preventing the formation of toxins in the bowel. OXYGEN COLON CLEANSE

Like the colon, the liver is begging for a cleanse.

First, start your morning with freshly squeezed lemon in warm water. This helps to cleanse the liver and promote detoxification. It also stimulates bile production, cleanses the stomach and stimulates bowel motion.

Here’s a recipe for an amazing drink for the liver that I highly recommend:

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 ginger root
* dash of cayenne pepper (optional)

The stomach is responsible for breaking down and processing fats, but in truth the gallbladder and liver are the primary organs here. As these organs have so much input into the entire cycle, don’t even try and think about losing weight until you are sure that they are both clean and working as they should.

Our society has much to blame when it comes to the unhealthy habits that we exhibit from childhood. Obese children continue their habits through their lifetimes, but we also fail to pay attention to the fact that poor liver and gallbladder health is very contributory and has been for generations.

It’s very sad to see an obese child and unless we intervene at an appropriate time, this problem will continue throughout his or her life. Why do we not teach them the importance of a correct diet, daily exercise and that they need to clean and detoxify the body regularly?

If your liver and gallbladder are clogged or not functioning, then your healthy diet and regular exercise regime may not be enough. You must pay particular attention to what comes out of your body as well as what you put in there.

How Can You Lose Weight if  Your Liver and Gallbladder are Failing?

We see evidence of new diets all the time and it is a huge industry in our Western society. People regularly start and fail on these diets and cannot lose weight.

They may not realize that they have toxic buildup in the gallbladder and liver. Unless you understand how these organs work and how essential they are to regulate our weight, problems will remain.

Let me explain: The liver, the largest organ that we possess is connected to the small intestine. It produces a secretion called bile that breaks down our digestive fats into smaller pieces, so that they can, together with associated vitamins, be absorbed within the small intestine.

The liver has an important function in this respect and develops its bile from a combination of molecules such as cholesterol, bilirubin, phospholipids, bile acids and also electrolytes. Most people believe the liver is essentially in place to purge the damaging alcoholic chemicals and other toxins from our body.

Just as any other machine will start to fail if not maintained properly, the efficiency of our organs will diminish after years of damage. They will not be able to break down the fats as well and this will automatically lead to weight gain and an inability to do anything about it.

Even more worrying, stones can begin to accumulate, compounding the damage.  The gallbladder is essentially a storage location. It is shaped like a kidney bean, situated just beneath the liver in the upper part of the abdomen. The hepatic duct connects to the liver and allows the gallbladder to store the bile produced by the other organ.

The primary job of the bile is to aid the lipase enzymes to digest fats.  What is Digestive Bile for?

Digestive bile breaks down fats and toxins, allowing the intestines to move these materials through the tract in an ongoing process of elimination. The bile promotes the peristaltic action that culminates in your bowel movement. Without this bile, therefore, toxins and other debris would falter within the intestines and start building up elsewhere, promoting weight gain and even constipation. The bile releases fat soluble vitamins, such as A and E, together with fatty acids.

Here’s Why You Need To Dump Sugar NOW……

Everyday I talk to people – both clients and friends of mine – who struggle with depression, weight gain, Cravings, mood swings, lack of energy, and more. In almost every case the person consumes a regular diet of refined sugar.

And most people have no idea how serious it really is. But the problem goes much deeper than simply feeling “down” all the time. What gets me so upset is, regardless of how many studies science produces to show the dangers of sugar, very few people are telling you the unvarnished truth… …sugar is a toxic poison. Ok, so you probably think I’m over-reacting a bit here, right?

To be honest, you wouldn’t be the first. And that’s what I mean. Most people treat sugar like it’s just a little vice. Well I’m here to tell you that the danger is much more severe And I’ve got 3 rock-solid reasons you need to get as far away from refined sugar as possible.

Toxic Reason # 1 — Sugar Leads to Cellular Death:

In 1957, Dr. William Coda Martin published a study on the chemical effects of sugar on the body. In a nutshell, here’s what’s going on… The process of refining sugar completely drains the sugar of vitamins and minerals. That’s why sugar is said to have nothing but empty calories. When the body tries to digest the refined sugar, it can’t break it down nutritionally. This creates a toxic acid called pyruvic acid. This acid has a lethal effect on our cells. Basically it blocks oxygen from getting through… resulting in cellular death. And, according to Dr. Martin, this “is the beginning of degenerative disease.”

Toxic Reason #2 — Sugar Drains the Body of Vitamins and Minerals:

Since Sugar is so difficult to break down, our bodies have to use a lot of vitamins and minerals just to make use of this toxin.  So a sudden influx of sugar creates an incredible  strain on the body.  It takes everything it has such as: sodium, magnesium and potassium) just to bring the body back into balance.

In other words, sugar creates a chaotic mess in our bodies that takes a lot of our healthy resources to bring it back under control. Oh, and do you know why tooth decay comes from eating too many “sweets?” Because calcium is taken from bones and teeth to help protect the blood from the acid imbalance brought on by sugar. This leads to decay and weakening of the bones. Fun stuff, huh?

Toxic Reason # 3 — Sugar Leads to an All-Out Assault On the Vital Organs
At first, sugar is stored in the liver in the form of glycogen. But soon, after a daily diet of refined sugar, the liver.. swells like a balloon, This cause a backup of sugar ( now in fatty acid form) into the blood.

Next stop… inactive areas such as the waist, buttocks, belly, and thighs. Then  another backup. Only this time, the fatty acid settles in the heart, kidneys, and  other organs.

Their contaminated cells begin to turn into fat too. The organs begin to slow down, leading to high blood pressure, small brain paralysis, and diabetes.

And, believe it or not, that’s just for starters. Refined sugar affects digestion, body chemicals, and even the nervous system.

See why this drive me crazy? Sugar is one of the most dangerous substances you can put in your body. It over-takes every areas. It affects everything.
And our society is overrun with it.

But, you don’t have to live like a slave to the effects of sugar any longer. You can begin to make healthy  food choices and start living life with more energy, excitement, and zest.

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While there is no shortage of diet books and new fitness equipment on the market, the problems of being overweight and obese continue to grow with the number of people being affected by these serious but preventable conditions. There must be something else going on here.

All of us have our own special relationship with food. We don’t just use food to satisfy our physical hunger; we sometimes use it to quell our emotional hunger as well.

What is  Emotional Eating?
As we learn more and more about why we eat and why we choose the foods we eat, we begin to understand how our emotions play such an instrumental role in our health. roger gould, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and author of Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever, defines emotional eating as eating to satisfy emotional hunger.

In this fashion, you use food for comfort or as a way to cope with life. That means you eat for reasons other than what your body needs. We all indulge in emotional eating at one point or another. Reaching for chocolate after a disagreement with your spouse or comforting yourself after a grueling meeting at work with an entire pizza are prime examples of emotional eating.

But when this condition goes too far, it crosses the line into food addiction, where you actually lose control over what and how you eat.

Why do We do It?

Dr. Gould points out that all of us have emotional hunger. The difference between an emotional eater and a non-emotional eater is how they respond to this hunger. When presented with a challenge, an emotional eater has a knee-jerk reaction to reach for whatever food will offer him or her a moment of comfort.

Our comfort foods are usually not the healthiest choices, including ice cream, refined carbohydrates, heavy pastas and fast food.

Emotional eating happens without much regard to health, nutrition or even real hunger. In fact, eating is usually hurried, with very little awareness of what is being consumed and, therefore, emotional eaters are more prone to overeating.

Food offers relief from stress or emotional discomfort and provides a refuge and safety net that we can quickly turn to for solace and security. Food becomes the drug that distracts us from whatever discomfort we are feeling.

The more we emotionally eat, the less likely we are to focus on the real cause of our unrest. But food is just a temporary bandage. The feeling that drove you to emotionally eat in the first place is still there, and will quickly return. And worst of all, now there are usually new feelings of guilt, remorse, anger and isolation once you realize you’ve been giving in to emotional eating.

Unfortunately, for most of us, that craving for “sweet” doesn’t leave much room for vegetables.

Why aren’t we thinking vegetables instead? Perhaps it’s the stress of consuming five or more servings a day – what everyone from our doctors to the government’s food guidelines recommend! Or maybe it’s the thought of the after-effects of eating so many vegetables.

But there is a way of getting all the benefits from vegetables without feeling we have to pack a picnic basket full, or being afraid some of the harder-to-digest vegetables will have our guts in an uproar.

The answer is juicing.

Juicing vegetables will help you meet your five-a-day – or more – serving requirement in a highly efficient manner.  At the same time, juicing will allow your body to absorb all the nutrients you need from your vegetables.

Think of juicing as the process of “pre-digesting” your food for you.

And that’s a good thing, since most of us have a dysfunctional digestive system from years of bad diet. As a result, our system “passes” most of the nutrients as waste.

Which is really a waste of good nutrients! With juicing, the process optimizes your body’s ability to absorb nutrients. Which means you have more energy right from the get-go, and it’s easy on your digestive system.

For you carb cravers, meeting the five-a-day or more rule is very important. In fact, it’s recommended that you consume about one pound of raw vegetables per 50 pounds of body weight each and every day.

Now that’s one big stack of vegetables! Since munching on vegetables all day can get pretty boring, you’ll appreciate juicing.

One of the benefits is that you can choose from a wider variety of vegetables, because you won’t have to worry about whether you can digest them.

You can even juice vegetables you wouldn’t normally find pleasing to your palate, because mixed with several other varieties, you’re able to create your own flavours.

Juicing is all about raw foods, but it does not have to mean “no cooked foods.”  Juicing simply encourages including as much raw food as possible, because these foods have so many more nutrients and enzymes than their cooked counterparts.

For example, vegetables have been found to contain 77% more B6, 86% more vitamin E and up to 40% more zinc than cooked vegetables. The fresh juice of plants is very much like the juice of our own cells.

The essential elements that may be lacking in your body’s cells – particularly the live enzymes, bioactive vitamins, minerals, trace minerals and other unknown factors – can be easily absorbed through daily fresh green juices.

Raw greens are the basics of nature’s medicines as well.  When an animal is ill, it nibbles on green grass and weeds, or fasts, depending on its instincts.

These animals have no medication and no doctors, but they inherently know what will make them well.

The same rule governs humans. Simply adding fresh green juices to your existing diet has a great effect on a variety of illnesses.  Humans die from more than 250 known diseases, while grass-eating wild animals usually die of only five to 10 diseases.

The reason, scientists say, is the level of fresh, naturally grown food in the diet.

I can’t stress enough how keeping your menu to liquids - green juices! - in the morning is an excellent way to aid your body’s natural repair cycles.

Since our bodies are usually far too acidic, this is a good way to help flush out all the bad things and replace them with the good ones we need.

Just as blood is the key to our survival as humans, so are the properties in juices the key to survival for plants. And if it is so important to them, juices are equally as important to us!

By ingesting the enzymes, alkaline, minerals and vitamins found naturally occurring in plants, we are able to bring ourselves back to the balance found before processed foods and fast food slowed our digestive system.

Here’s what I DO and RECOMMEND:

Take 1 to 2 8-ounce servings of fresh vegetable green juice during your fasting day (once a week or every day). Juice kale, cucumber, celery and a bit of apple.

The most important addition to your green drink is blue-green or green algae  like spirulina, chlorella and wild blue green algae. They all help to correct blood sugar imbalance because they’re rich in minerals and easily absorbable protein.

They renew cells and can reverse the degenerative aging process, helping to rebuild the tissues of the liver, the nervous system, the brain and every other part of the body.

And to get you started, here’s one of my favourite recipes, Juice Morning Magic.

Juice Morning Magic

•    1 cup cucumber juice
•    1 cup celery juice
•    1 cup Kale Juice
•    Juice 1 apple
•    small piece of ginger
•    Optional: add sunflower Sprouts
Juice all ingredients in a juicer and enjoy.