Should You Detoxify ?

• Do you have trouble losing weight?
• Do you have high cholesterol?
• Do you have high blood pressure?
• Do you have blood sugar problems?
• Do you come from a family with diabetes, high cholesterol and obesity?
• Do you feel tired?
• Do you feel older than you are?
• Do you eat non-organic and packaged foods?
• Do you live near high traffic areas?
• Do you have trouble sleeping?
• Do you have environmental sensitivities or allergies?

If you answered yes to any of these questions then join Drew DiVittorio on Wednesday, June 18th for a complimentary lecture on how to detoxify gently, safely and effectively without any side effects.

Most detoxification programs out there today(for example, colon cleansing or supplement packages found online or in health food stores) can cause serious side effects and are not true detoxification.

Drew DiVittorio, DIPL, CH

HealthBody NYC.

1133 Broadway at 26 St

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Drew's Detox, Healing with Whole Foods & Herbs is a 14 Day Rejuvenation Program helping you to transition into a healthier way of eating after a 2 week light body detox & cleanse.

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Inflammatory foods can also produce free radicals which can lead to many chronic and acute diseases.  Excessive free radical production has been linked to cancer, heart and parkinson's disease.

If you want to feel your best with lots of energy and life force, try the following inflammatory diet for 30 days and please send us your feedback.  We will be glad to answer any concerns and questions you might have.(use contact at top of page)

In each food category, check off how many times you are eating any food in that group weekly.  Add the number in each group and get your overall total on the bottom.  Your grand total should not exceed 15 if you want to maintain a healhthy life style.  if you want to detox your body your total should not exceed 5.

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I always get asked the question, "how do I detoxifly and what do you think about fasting".  The 'Master Cleanse always comes up in the conversation.  There are many versions of this concoction which includes water, apple cider vinegar, honey and cayenne pepper.  No matter which version you are using the same rule always applies to detoxification: YOU MUST EAT!

The Master Cleanse has been around since the early 1900's.  Since then, the research reports that calorie restrictive detoxification programs are harmful for the body.

Detoxification is an energy-dependent process that puts a metabolic burden on the body.  Water and juice fasts are not beneficial because they deplete the body of essential nutrients required for healthy detoxification.  These fasts can have many adverse effects including decreased energy production, breakdown of lean tissue rather than loss of fat, increased oxidative stress and blood sugar imbalance.

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Everyone is on this water kick. I need to drink 8 bottles of water per day. "That's 48 bottles of water per week", as Lewis Black stated in his HBO special, "you need to bring a burro to the store with you just to carry all of those bottles.  The health benefits of drinking that much water have never be clearly defined.  However, the health benefits of tea have.

There are natural compounds in tea leaves called polyphenols.  Polyphenols are natural plant antioxidants. Antioxidants have been shown to prevent damage caused by free radicals to DNA and other molecules. 

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Oprah and Eckhart Tolle are teaching an exclusive online ‘free’ class by LIVE webcast starting March 3.  Check for details. 

Tolle says in "A New Earth" on page 75:

Fighting disease will not eradicate it.  Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.  Whenever I hear, "the war against" this or that, I know it is condemned to failure as in the war against cancer.  According to the Journal Of the American Medical Association, medical treatment is the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer in the United States. 

Homeopathy and Chinese Medicine are two examples of possible alternative approaches to disease that do not treat the illness as an enemy and therefore do not create new diseases.

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In 1978 while I was still in high school my mother developed breast cancer.  I had no idea what detoxification was or how it worked.  The nutritional program that she decided to use to help her overcome her condition was the Gerson Program.  The main strategy of this program is detoxification which treats existing conditions and can prevent disease.  Now in my 14th year of private practice detoxification as a healing strategy is the most important part of my practice.

How does detoxification work and why is it so important?

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This was the cover of Time Magazine back in February 2004.  The article explains the link between chronic illness and inflammation as follows: 

Most of the time inflammation is a life saving procedure that allows the body to fight off infection from bacteria, virus and parasites. (Yes even in the industrial world we are constantly being bombarded by pathogens).  The instant any of these potentially deadly microbes slip into the body, inflammation marshals a defense attack that lays waste to both the invader and any tissue it may have infected.  Then just as quickly, the process subsides and healing begins.  Every once in a while, the whole feverish process doesn't shut down on cue. In any event, the inflammation becomes chronic rather that transitory.

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My interview for the book focused on the theories and treatment of Asthma according to Oriental Medicine. The theory I discuss in the book dates back to the Hun dynasty (220AD).  It is a classical text, the Shang Hun Lun (Treatise on Cold Induced Disorders), written by one the Great Masters and Physicians of Oriental Medicine, Chang Chong Ching. 

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