Detox Doesn’t Mean Diet!

Feeling like you’ve overdone it on the food and drink? Don’t be fooled into thinking that going on a low fat diet will detoxify your system.

Detox isn’t just about diets and weight loss. Detox is about ridding your system of the build up of toxins, which can be quite substantial with christmas indulgence. Weight gain is just one symptom of over indulgence, however a build up of toxins can cause many health problems from skin irritations and joint inflammation to serious disease. It is good practice to cleanse your system perhaps more frequently than once a year and although nutrition is an important part of detox there are other practices that can help make the process more beneficial.

These toxins can sit in our colon which are then reabsorbed back into our bloodstream, Colonic Hydrotherapy is one effective method of removing these toxins. Also there are many different forms of massage which can help release the toxins from your system and help rebalance the body and in some cases aid in weight loss.

If you find that diets don’t work for you then you may want to look at slowly changing your lifestyle, switching over from unhealthy processed foods to more whole foods and developing a greater understanding of what effects certain foods have on your body. For example many diets are solely concerned with losing weight and don’t discuss the difference between low fat and healthy. This is crucial in maintaining a healthy weight for the long term along with a healthy body and mind.

Many low fat foods contain large amounts of salt, sugars, sweeteners, artificial flavourings, preservatives and many other chemicals. These ingredients are often cleverly disguised so you don’t know that you are eating them but all can have drastic effects on our bodies. A change of attitude towards food might not be as difficult as you imagine and once you begin the process you will probably find that you don’t feel the same way about the unhealthy foods you once enjoyed. For many people though this still remains a challenge but you don’t have to face it alone, help is readily available from nutritionists and dieticians if you want advice on what foods might work well for your lifestyle. Also for those who really struggle to get healthy eating on board might perhaps benefit from Nuero linguistic programming or hypnotherapy to help better the relationship with food.

If you would like to know more about any of our treatments relating to detox please call the centre on 02084498000.

This week in The Centre we have:

Monday 6th January

Colonic Hydrotherapy with Enrida Kelly
Allergy Testing with Cathy Foley

Tuesday 7thth

Acupuncture (including IVF, fertility and pregnancy oriented) with Victoria Busk
Reflexology with Victoria Busk
Sports massage with Jambaal Jeng
Back and neck pain therapy with Jambaal Jeng
Visceral manipulation with Jambaal Jeng
Myofascial release with Jambaal Jeng
Swedish massage with Hilary Insall
Remedial massage with Hillary Insall
Lymphatic drainage with Hilary Insall
Podiatry with Susan Emami