Body detoxification is an important topic for anyone who is looking to improve their overall health and nutrition in their life.  What is the theory behind a body detoxification diet?  The main idea is that those of us who are not eating organic fruits and vegetables all day long are eating foods that put toxins into our bodies.  Theoretically these toxins can build up over time and create problems for our health.  Even if you do not believe in the idea of toxins that accumulate in our body, there is still a need for most of us to detoxify our bodies if we eat the standard American diet (or anything close to it). 

There are a number of commercial diets out there that pitch the idea of "cleansing."  For example, there is a master cleanse, the lemon diet, and so on.  Many of these diets have specific formulas to follow in order to detoxify the body and return to good health.

There is no great secret to any of these new cleansing diets, other than the idea of fasting.  Fasting is a general cleansing technique that is so basic and fundamental to our lives that even animals use it.  

For detoxification of the body, I would recommend that you avoid these new fad diets but employ the same principles.  Go to your local grocery store and buy a few bags of lemons.  Throw in a bag of limes for some added variety and flavor.  Then buy some cheap juice to use as your base.  This is the poor man's way to do a juice fast, but it will work just as well as the fad diets that cost big money.

Then what you should do is drink juice all day long for 3 days straight.  No solid food allowed.  Make sure the juice that you buy does not contain any pulp.  Then what you need to do is to squeeze a lemon and put it into each glass of juice that you drink.  The big secret that you need to remember is to strain the pulp from the lemon with a paper towel.  This is very important and if you do not strain the pulp away from the lemon then you will not really be fasting.

What this will do is to turn your digestive system off completely.  Your stomach will realize that you are no longer giving it any food so it will turn off completely.  This will happen on the second day and you will feel no hunger whatsoever at that point.  You will keep drinking the lemon juice and your body will continue to cleanse itself.  This is the cheapest, most effective route to body cleansing detoxification.  What is really amazing is that after you have gone a few days without any solid food, you will still have a bowel movement, indicating that you have dislodged waste that has been laying dormant for years.  If you do this you will amaze yourself and feel much better and cleaner as a result. 

Juice fasting as I have described gets a bad rap in the eastern world.  There is no money in this idea and therefore doctors and the health industry do not push the idea of fasting.  But if you experiment with this on your own you will see and feel the benefits of a cleansing diet on your own.

Don't take my word for it.  Actually try a simple, 3 day juice fast and you will feel the incredible difference and cleansing effect that it has on your body.  You will really be amazed at the seemingly unlimited amount of energy that you get from not having to digest so much solid food all of the time.  When we eat 3 meals every day we are spending a ton of extra energy, almost constantly throughout our day, digesting all of that heavy food.  When you fast you will be amazed at the energy boost you will get from not eating. 

Does this actually clean your body out though?  That is the subject of much debate and you will want to try it out for yourself in order to know for sure.  When you are fasting and on the second and third day you will definitely feel cleaner than when you are consuming solid food.  Whether or not any actual toxins are eliminated is best left up to the scientists and nutritionists to decide.  That is not the bottom line though.  The bottom line is, how does fasting make you feel?  Does it increase your energy and make you feel more alive?  If the answer is yes then you have found your new cleansing system.

The amazing thing about fasting is that it is basically free.  No one who pushes fasting can really have an agenda or a profit motive, because you are talking about eliminating something.  There is no money to be made in fasting so you know you are not being led astray due to commercial intent. 

Try fasting out for yourself and just give it 3 short days to work in your life.  If you do this you will likely be converted for life and you will see the power in fasting.