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A Healthy Diet

soulimage

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Hey,

I've been gradually coming off a 4 year binge drinking problem and the same amount of time of recreational chemical use.

I'm looking for a straight forward diet that will cleanse the toxins from my body and replace the large amount of red meet I eat.

I eat fruits and veggies quite a lot, but I also drink lots of sugar waters, colas and still the beer here and there..

I have a problem with digestion since the harshness of the alcohol devours my stomach and intestines.

Any help, or if someone could lead me in a good direction that would be great,

-SoulImage
 
well keep eating natural foods i.e salads, fruits, etc, and drink plain mineral waterm the less sweetened the better. drink green tea as well.
sorry i can't help more specificly, go to a dietant dude!
 
Make sure you incorporate healthy lifestyle changes as well...e.g. exercise, avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other substances, avoiding sugary drinks,and so on. The best diet in the world doesn't matter if over lifestyle isn't addressed.
 
A healthy diet ideally will limit the amount of toxins being ingested.

Eat 100% organic fruits, vegetables, nuts & seeds.

Don't eat anything that comes packaged or processed (brand-name products).

Take a whole-food supplement daily (NOT synthetic vitamins). It's impossible to get all the nutrients you need by just eating food, even if it's all organic.

Take digestive enzymes with each meal.

Find our your blood type and eat alkalizing foods accordingly.

Drink at least 8 glasses of pure water daily (no tap water).
 
Start taking milk thistle as a dietary supplement. It's well demonstrated that it can heal your liver quickly and reverse jaundice if you take it long-term. It's so good at restoring your liver's functioning that it's used as an antidote to hepatoxic mushroom poisoning.
 
LiquidMethod said:
A healthy diet ideally will limit the amount of toxins being ingested.

Eat 100% organic fruits, vegetables, nuts & seeds.

Don't eat anything that comes packaged or processed (brand-name products).

Take a whole-food supplement daily (NOT synthetic vitamins). It's impossible to get all the nutrients you need by just eating food, even if it's all organic.

Take digestive enzymes with each meal.

Find our your blood type and eat alkalizing foods accordingly.

Drink at least 8 glasses of pure water daily (no tap water).

Exactly what I would have advised. Water is your best friend!
 
/\ LiquidMethod's advice is excellent.

I have recently started using a new supplement called "Cellfood"(google it!) and I have high hopes... can't say much about it yet though because it's only been a very short while that I've been on it.

Other supplements that I believe to be very powerful for one's health and that I have recently started using (again, I can't yet say much regarding the results) are a range of Chinese "super tonics" as they call them:

Schizandra
Reishi mushroom
Astragalus
Jiaogulan

I got the herbs and I brew myself a nice bitter tea every day and sweeten it with Stevia.

Another thing you might want to consider is heavy metal detoxification, especially if you have (had) amalgam fillings, used crystal meth and the like and if you smoked it over tinfoil... (even if aluminium is actually not a 'heavy' metal) - both chlorella and spirulina are useful to chelate heavy metals and flsuh them out of the body if used in sufficient amounts. And both are also very good superfoods for extra energy and optimum nutrition.

Then it might also be useful to have plenty of natural yoghurt or kombucha or some other fermented foods in order to have a decent probiotic/prebiotic intake to help establish or safeguard a healthy balance of the intestinal flora.

regarding water... I do use tap water but I charcoal-filter it and energise it in various ways to make sure it's more palatable and more absorbable than it would be just straight out of the tap.
 
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LiquidMethod said:
A healthy diet ideally will limit the amount of toxins being ingested.

Eat 100% organic fruits, vegetables, nuts & seeds.

Don't eat anything that comes packaged or processed (brand-name products).

Take a whole-food supplement daily (NOT synthetic vitamins). It's impossible to get all the nutrients you need by just eating food, even if it's all organic.

Take digestive enzymes with each meal.

Find our your blood type and eat alkalizing foods accordingly.

Drink at least 8 glasses of pure water daily (no tap water).

roflmao. don't follow this advice except for the water part but don't worry if its tap or not.

Eat a lot of food and mix it up. Try to eat plenty of vegis/fruits along with plenty of meat. don't eat anything cheap, try to actually cook some shit. avoid fast food and deep fried stuff. make sure you drink plenty of h2o. again - tap doesn't matter. take a multivitamin if you think you should.

other than that exercise. the human body is remarkably adapted to cleaning itself. eating 'non organic' or 'processed' foods and drinking tap water is nothing your body can't handle.
 
^^^pff, definitely avoid processed foods. They contain known carcinogens/poisons and are stripped of fiber, vitamins and minerals.

The vast majority of concentrated herbacides and pestacides in one's body comes from meat and dairy. The rest comes from veggies/grains. So if you want to avoid toxins (which they most certainly are!) in this regard, concentrate on buying organic animal products over veggies. However, research has shown that organic produce has higher levels of vitamins and phytochemicals (very important for proper health) than conventional produce, so if you can afford it, go all organic. Furthermore, local organic is even better because the produce is fresh and usually cheeper than store bought.

I would strongly suggest the other detoxifiers and healing substances mentioned in the above posts. Milk thistle, green tea, cholrella, and spirulina being of top priority.

If you can't be bothered...eat a balanced diet (fiber, carbs, fat, protein) of whole foods and take a multi_vitamin.

And don't forget the water! (tap is fine if it is good tap, you will taste bad tap)
 
what will you "taste" in the bad tap that makes it bad? people have so much superstition about this stuff its absurd. your body is a cleansing machine. people abuse their bodies to the extreme and are stilll hitting 80-100 yrs of age.

organic foods aren't that great. for 1 they go bad faster. for somebody who just quit a 4 yr drinking binge i'm not sure the thing they need to be worrying about is expensive and fast aging food products.

really I think its absurd how much people nitpick over this kind of stuff. a human being can live healthfully and happily on nothing but chicken breast and some vitamins with a healthy dose of tap water if they wanted. going to these extremes to include "green tea" (cough, bullshit, just caffeine) and things like milk thistle etc etc... you have to be kidding me.
 
Organic foods are actually a worse contributor to global warming- organicly fed cattle emitt more methane. But t does throw less pesticides into the environment.

I would cut out meat and fish (heavy metals) but Im a vegetarian so thats a given....plenty of nuts, fruit (dried or fresh-dried can unsettle the stomach) various seeds (pumpking, sunflower etc.) cottage cheese (basically my meat :)) whole grains and of course clear liquid. Don't be like hooray, vodkas clear- I mean water. When I detox, I try to eat quite a lot of salds with olive oil to put on fat, but I am pretty skinny.

Theres various detoxing herbs- you ciuld ty a nettle tea, as well as milk thistle extract to cleanse your system. I would also suggest multivitamins and a complex B group. Good thread, I like talking healthy even if I'm utterly not!
 
aanallein said:
what will you "taste" in the bad tap that makes it bad? people have so much superstition about this stuff its absurd. your body is a cleansing machine. people abuse their bodies to the extreme and are stilll hitting 80-100 yrs of age.

organic foods aren't that great. for 1 they go bad faster. for somebody who just quit a 4 yr drinking binge i'm not sure the thing they need to be worrying about is expensive and fast aging food products.

really I think its absurd how much people nitpick over this kind of stuff. a human being can live healthfully and happily on nothing but chicken breast and some vitamins with a healthy dose of tap water if they wanted. going to these extremes to include "green tea" (cough, bullshit, just caffeine) and things like milk thistle etc etc... you have to be kidding me.


umm, bad water tastes like shit and good water tastes pure and refreshing. It has to do with disolved solid content.

Organic foods go bad faster because they aren't coated with noxious chemicals. That is a good thing. Also, I fail to see how organic grains and grass make cattle produce less methane. However, I do agree that fruit and veggies is better than nothing, organic or no. IMO food grown organically in one's yard is of the highest possible quality, stays fresh until the moment you decide to eat it, and creates no global warming at all.

Saying that a person can live healthfully on chicken breast and vitamins is rediculous and shows that you have little idea about healthy eating. Feeding one's brain carbohydrates is much more important than improving the cut of one's six pack when it comes to health.

literature review of milk thistle
milk thistle said:
Abstract:

This review critically surveys the literature published mainly within this millennium on the new and emerging applications of silybin (pure, chemically defined substance) and silymarin (flavonoid complex from Silybum marianum - milk thistle seeds). These compounds used so far mostly as hepatoprotectants were shown to have other interesting activities, e.g. anticancer and canceroprotective and also hypocholesterolemic activity. These effects were demonstrated in a large variety of illnesses of different organs, e.g. prostate, lungs, CNS, kidneys, pancreas and also in the skin protection. Besides the cytoprotective activity of silybin mediated by its antioxidative and radical-scavenging properties also new functions based on the specific receptor interaction were discovered. These were studied on the molecular level and modulation of various cell-signaling pathways with silybin was disclosed - e.g. NF-κ B, inhibition of EGFR-MAPK/ERK1/2 signaling, activity upon Rb and E2F proteins, IGF-receptor signaling. Proapoptotic activity of silybin in pre- and/or cancerogenic cells and anti-angiogenic activity of silybin are other important findings that bring silymarin preparations closer to respective application in the cancer treatment. Discovery of the inhibition and modulation of drug transporters, Pglycoproteins, estrogenic receptors, nuclear receptors by silybin and some of its new derivatives contribute further to the better understanding of silybin activity on the molecular level. Silymarin application in veterinary medicine is reviewed as well. Recent works using optically pure silybin diastereomers clearly indicate extreme importance of the use of optically active silybin namely in the receptor studies. Significance of silymarin and its components in the medicine is clearly indicated by an exponential growth of publications on this topic - over 800 papers in the last 5 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_tea#Scientific_studies
wikipedia entry on health benefits of green tea said:
Scientific studies
A 2006 study published in the September 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded "Green tea consumption is associated with reduced mortality due to all causes and due to cardiovascular disease but not with reduced mortality due to cancer." The study, conducted by the Tohoku University School of Public Policy in Japan, followed 40,530 Japanese adults, ages 40-79, with no history of stroke, coronary heart disease, or cancer at baseline beginning in 1994. The study followed all participants for up to 11 years for death from all causes and for up to 7 years for death from a specific cause. Participants who consumed 5 or more cups of tea per day had a 16 percent lower risk of all-cause mortality and a 26 percent lower risk of cardiovascular disease than participants who consumed less than one cup of tea per day. The study also states, "If green tea does protect humans against CVD or cancer, it is expected that consumption of this beverage would substantially contribute to the prolonging of life expectancy, given that CVD and cancer are the two leading causes of death worldwide."[18] [19]

A study published in the February 2006 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded "A higher consumption of green tea is associated with a lower prevalence of cognitive impairment in humans."[20] [21]

In May 2006, researchers at Yale University School of Medicine weighed in on the issue with a review article that looked at more than 100 studies on the health benefits of green tea. They pointed to what they called an "Asian paradox," which refers to lower rates of heart disease and cancer in Asia despite high rates of cigarette smoking. They theorized that the 1.2 liters of green tea that is consumed by many Asians each day provides high levels of polyphenols and other antioxidants. These compounds may work in several ways to improve cardiovascular health, including preventing blood platelets from sticking together (This anticoagulant effect is the reason doctors warn surgical patients to avoid green tea prior to procedures that rely on a patient's clotting ability) and improving cholesterol levels, said the researchers, whose study appeared in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Specifically, green tea may prevent the oxidation of LDL cholesterol (the "bad" type), which, in turn, can reduce the buildup of plaque in arteries, the researchers wrote.[22]

A study published in the August 22, 2006 edition of Biological Psychology looked at the modification of the stress response via L-Theanine, a chemical found in green tea. It "suggested that the oral intake of L-Theanine could cause anti-stress effects via the inhibition of cortical neuron excitation."[23]

In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial done by Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, 240 adults were given either theaflavin-enriched green tea extract in form of 375mg capsule daily or a placebo. After 12 weeks, patients in the tea extract group had significantly less low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and total cholesterol (16.4% and 11.3% lower than baseline, p<0.01) than the placebo group. The author concluded that theaflavin-enriched green tea extract can be used together with other dietary approaches to reduce LDL-C.

A study published in the January, 2005 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded "Daily consumption of tea containing 690 mg catechins for 12 wk reduced body fat, which suggests that the ingestion of catechins might be useful in the prevention and improvement of lifestyle-related diseases, mainly obesity." [24]

Antioxidants in green tea may prevent and reduce the severity of rheumatoid arthritis, according to a Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine study published in the April 13 2005 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study examined the effects of green tea polyphenols on collagen-induced arthritis in mice, which is similar to rheumatoid arthritis in humans. In each of three different study groups, the mice given the green tea polyphenols were significantly less likely to develop arthritis. Of the 18 mice that received the green tea, only eight (44 percent) developed arthritis. Among the 18 mice that did not receive the green tea, all but one (94 percent) developed arthritis. In addition, researchers noted that the eight arthritic mice that received the green tea polyphenols developed less severe forms of arthritis.

A German study found that an extract of green tea and hot water (filtered), applied externally to the skin for 10 minutes, three times a day could help people with skin damaged from radiation therapy (after 16-22 days). [25]

A study published in the December 1999 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that "Green tea has thermogenic properties and promotes fat oxidation beyond that explained by its caffeine content per se. The green tea extract may play a role in the control of body composition via sympathetic activation of thermogenesis, fat oxidation, or both."[26]

In lab tests, EGCG, found in green tea, was found to prevent HIV from attacking T-Cells. However, it is not known if this has any effect on humans yet. [27]

A study in the August, 2003 issue of a new potential application of Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences found that "a new potential application of (–)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate [a component of green tea] in prevention or treatment of inflammatory processes is suggested" [28]
 
If you are really concerned go and see a nutritionist

^^^^......Errr Okay my advice would be that ! If you really do want to commit to improving your overall health then i am sure that you would want to have the best professional advice. So yea, invest in your future health.

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I don't see anyone can advise drinking tap water. (unless you live in Switzerland)

Otherwise use it for washing your floor and that's it.
 
quality of tap water is totally dependent on where you live.

The well water in silicone valley is absolutely terrible, leaves stains on everything, and smells like poison. However, when the water is comming from kamkuchi (or something like that) resevor, it is MUCH better. The water company would alternate between the two sources and it was very easy to tell where the water was comming from.

If you think that all tap water is fine or all of it is gross, you simply haven't lived in enough places to tell the difference. Either that or you have a poor sense of taste.
 
Saying that a person can live healthfully on chicken breast and vitamins is rediculous and shows that you have little idea about healthy eating. Feeding one's brain carbohydrates is much more important than improving the cut of one's six pack when it comes to health.

I'm in absurdly good health, thanks. You realize the Eskimos live on a meat only diet and are just fine? There is little to no scientific evidence to suggest that a meat only diet will cause any long term health consequences. Ketonisis isn't that big a deal.

And tap water isn't that bad seriously. You body NEEDS certain minerals and the rest you can filter out if need be.

The obsession with random supplements which can be just as bad for you as anything else since they've had no long term studies while telling people not to drink tap water and only organic foods... sigh.. its just nonsense. I'm in incredible shape and I don't do any of that stuff. The best thing you can do is drink 1-2 gallons of water a day and exercise to exhaustion daily. That and eat a ton of protein and you are good to go.
 
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