Experiments October 5, 2009
Posted by Margaret Hebron in food, health.Tags: detox, fruit, health, healthy living, organic, salt, tap water, toxins
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Recently, I’ve been exploring different methods of detoxification. My favorite so far is salt baths. 1-2 lbs epsom salt plus some sea salt. You just have to be sure to do them in the morning so you can rehydrate yourself before bed at night. The first few times I did them was in the evening, and inevitably I never slept well those nights.
A friend of mine also shared this one with me: let tap water sit out over night before drinking it. This will allow the chlorine to evaporate before you drink it.
I’ve also read about one where you eat nothing but fruit before noon. Apparently your body detoxifies while you sleep, but when you wake up and eat breakfast you interrupt the process—unless you eat fruit, which is fine because it takes very little energy for your body to digest it.
So I’m going to try the fruit thing. I bought a bunch of organic fruit at Fred Meyer today and am going to see how this goes. Down with toxins!
Guess I’m doing something right… reading this while eating my morning Apple. I also have a tea though, hmm?
Hmm, herbal or caffeinated?
Herbal, though I did add some raw sugar as I don’t have any honey here.
Thought I was doing pretty well, until someone brought in donuts!
Ha, herbal tea is fine. No sugar though. But some unpasteurized honey might be okay. Definitely no donuts!
Bad me, I know. :-(
If I may add my two cents here (as I’ve researched nutrition like crazy since I was born, basically). Fruit is a 1-2 hour food, which means that it will only give your body energy for a minimum of 1 hour, a maximum of 2 hours. Also, it’s a sugar (good sugar, but sugar nonetheless), which means that you’ll get a spike and then a quick drop in your blood sugar.
So let’s say you wake up at 7 am and you have some fruit, then you go to work and go about your day. 1-2 hours gives you from 700-900 (at the latest). Where is your body getting its energy for those remaining three hours?
By the time 9am comes, your blood sugar has dropped again. You can eat more fruit, but that’s going to put another spike in your blood sugar, to have it drop again by 11 – 1 full hour before you’re scheduled to eat again.
If you want to stick to just fruit in the morning, that’s fine. But by about 9 am (or 2 hours after you first eat), you are going to need something more substantial.
I don’t want to poop on the “cleanse” idea (no pun intended, haha), but your body really does need protien etc (3-4 hour foods) to stabilize your blood sugar and give you energy for the day (so your body doesn’t pull it’s energy from other places.)
I have a few blog posts in the works about nutrition- I’m trying not to be longwinded so I’ll save the details for the blog.
Yeah, I hear what you’re saying about the blood sugar thing. You’re also not supposed to eat as soon as you wake up, but wait till you’re hungry. So if you wake up at 7, you might not eat till 7:30 or 8.
I am going to give the fruit thing a try for at least a little while. If I don’t notice a huge difference, I will probably go back to eating normally before noon. So far it does seem to be helping.