Detoxification of body and health

These days we hear a lot about toxins, toxic products and detoxification. We are told that for us to become healthy, it is essential that we detoxify our body. And we are at a loss as to what that means. What are toxic products inside our body? Where do they come from and how can we get rid of them?

We associate toxic products with pollution and certainly our environment contributes a lot to the stress our metabolic and elimination systems are under. However, it is too easy and far too simplistic to put the blame entirely on pollution and the people that are responsible for it. Notice how it is always others that destroy the ozone layer, that pollute the air with toxic gasses, that pollute the streams and seas, that put the preservatives, colorants, emulsifiers and taste enhancers in the food that we particularly like and buy. The truth is that we all play an active part in the destruction of the world, either by directly contributing to it or by having our wishes and desires met by others, by the industry, by an economy of demand. These toxic products accumulate in the food chain and are in the air that we breathe. Once they have entered our system, we need to do something with them. We can either detoxify them, store them or allow destruction of our body to take place. The choice is ours. Before you start protesting, here are a few examples of what we need to consider if we are going to make a positive choice.

Attitude makes a great difference to your weight. Fear tends to refuse to allow nutrients into the system. However, anyone who overeats to calm fear will eventually also gain weight. Anger burns away nutrients, but anyone who overeats specifically to cool anger eventually gains weight. People who, filled with bitterness due to intense frustration, choose to obtain life’s sweetness through food may become addicted to the pleasures of eating and may become obese. Individual reasons for obesity vary, but all of them involve the determination to hold tenaciously to the beloved fat which provides reliable, steady love and warmth. No diet, however strict, can change this.
Loneliness is worse for you than a high fat diet when you are trying to lose weight. Most strict diets are actually self-defeating because they manifest from an attitude of self-hatred, of disgust for the fat and for the self whose weakness allowed the fat to accumulate. This attitude leads to a desire to starve the body in order to punish the mind.

Hunger prangs increase as the body tries to force the mind to eat more and satisfy its hunger. This affects junk food addicts worst, since their bodies have been emptied of many essential nutrients for which their bodies experience severe hunger when dieting. Moreover when dieters go back to their normal eating habits at the end of a diet they burn off less calories and store more fat than they did previously, because their metabolic rates have dropped, and because their bodies are now wary of starvation and want to store even more just in case such episode should be repeated. Crash diets therefore increase the body’s setpoint for fat content, and makes you fatter!

The psychological effects of crash dieting are even more pernicious. Both, starving people and dieters dream and fantasise about food, and both suffer from anxiety and depression, all from the physical stress of having to live below the body’s desired fat setpoint. When the organism cheats on its diet because it can no longer withstand the body’s incessant demands for food, the mind’s first reaction is to binge, because "I’ve already gone off my diet, so why not?" After the binge, guilt rears up as the mind realises that its temporary indulgence in food has damaged its physical self-image. To remedy this the dieter returns to penance and starts back down the road of starvation, little knowing that such erratic behaviour inexorably drives up the fat steeping.

Even resisting temptation can be hazardous to your weight. Every dieter who lusts after a luscious desert sends a message to the brain that new and tasty morsels are about to be consumed. This makes the mouth water and the digestive juices start to flow, and signals the body’s insulin to remove some sugar from the general circulation to make way for the new sugar which will soon be flooding the blood. The body stores this sugar as fat. Lowered blood sugar increases the appetite, and when you next eat you read more