Detox Foods

Shopping for Healthy Detox Foods: Change Your Focus.  Change Your Health.

The very best diet detox plans build from simple common sense and minor changes of focus in the grocery store.  Change the shape of your body and restore your good health, first, by changing the way you shop.  Match your marches up and down the grocery aisles to your list of healthy detox foods.  As you shop, try to follow Dr. Oz’s best rule for healthy nutrition: If it doesn’t look almost the same as it enters your mouth as it did when it left the ground, you should not eat it.  Especially the best, most powerful detox foods will go from grocery store to home to digestive tract in their farm-fresh shapes and forms.  And, no, PowerBars and Slimfast do not grow on trees.

Yes, making a commitment to maxing-out the diet detox foods in your diet and minimizing the junk, you inevitably will plan and manage both your shopping and your cooking far more strategically.  You will recover the power and wonder of the old-school grocery list, and you will rediscover the miracle-magic of your own kitchen.  Of course, deliberately choosing foods that cleanse your system and promote its own natural healing, you inevitably will sacrifice some of your guilty pleasures.  Say good-bye, for example, to ice cream, most of which is lots of ice and almost no cream.  Say adios to packaged and processed foods of all kinds; and bid adieu to meat and potatoes—burgers and fries are about to become a bittersweet memory.

As you shop, resist your temptation to veer into the frozen foods section.  Just as your mother insisted “nothing good happens after midnight,” so your conscience insists that nothing good ever happens in the freezer section.  And if you thought the freezers were dangerous, just imagine the perils and pitfalls of the canned goods.  Best to imagine those aisles suffer serious alligator infestations.  Just stay away.

Of course, your safe and healthy list of detox diet items includes the beverages—the ones you may have and those you must have not.  By-pass the soft drinks, energy drinks, and  adult beverages, making a bee-line for the bottled waters.  Better still, invest approximately 20 American dollars in a faucet-mounted water filter.  With your own unlimited supply of 99% pure water, you easily can brew your own green tea, mix-up your own lemonade, and concoct your detox drink of choice.  And, draw a little comfort and reassurance from the fact that, as you enter items on your detox foods shopping list, you can keep coffee.  Most Americans actually get the majority of their antioxidants from their organically grown and minimally processed coffees; and recent research has very strongly suggested that up to 24 ounces of coffee each day will reduce your risks of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

Then, move on to the cereal aisle, investing in fiber-rich whole-grain cereals—the old fashioned kinds; and complement your cereals with low-fat yogurts rich in cultures that promote health digestion.  By pass the meat counter and advance to the beans.  Lending themselves to thousands of tasty recipes, red beans and frijoles negros provide as much protein as that fatty burger you imagined you might buy, and they come fully equipped with lots of other power-packed nutrients, too. 

Finally, loading-up on healthy, inexpensive detox foods, you should spend a lot of time in the produce section, seeking-out and stacking-up your cart with all kinds of delicious, antioxidant rich fruits and berries.  Research supports you.  Oprah’s high-powered and well-respected diet and health guru, Dr. Oz supports you.  Careful clinical studies have shown that all your taste-good and feel-good favorites are really good for you: grapes, strawberries, blueberries, cranberries, and especially exotic acai berries pack a powerful wallop in all their delectable deliciousness.