Month: April 2019

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Tips to Keep Your Liver Healthy
Tips to Keep Your Liver Healthy
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To remain healthy it is very important to care for your liver. Liver is the only organ in the human body, which has the ability to repair itself. When severe problems occur in your liver there will not be any other alternative other than liver transplantation. Therefore it is very necessary to protect your liver.

First step you need to take for healthy liver is to stop drinking alcohol and quit smoking. Both practices are absolutely dangerous to your liver. Stop them as soon as possible to protect your liver.

Follow a proper and healthy dieting to protect your liver. Your diet should comprise of rich carbohydrates, nutrients, low fat, and fibers. Fibrous food helps to reduce the stress on your liver. Healthy diet is the only way to keep your liver protected. Fatty food has to be completely avoided from your diet and include more of fibrous food. Take in lots of vegetables and fruits daily. They have the capability to cleanse your liver. You can also include the detoxifying food items like garlic, cabbage and onion in your diet.

Water is a medication for lot of diseases. Water is answerable for detoxification and thus helps in improving the health of your body. Water not only cures disease but also keeps you beautiful and healthy. Your overall body health is improved after taking plenty of water daily.

Exercise is yet another thing that is very significant in keeping a person fit and healthy. Physical activities like jogging, swimming, running etc helps keeping your liver healthy. Keep a healthy weight, so that there is no risk for your liver.

You can also opt for regular check-ups, which include the liver functioning test. You should avoid the habit of taking drugs for small diseases. Drug addiction also results in …

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The Best Body Cleansing Method
The Best Body Cleansing Method
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Recently, I was in a waiting room listening to a conversation about doing the Lemon Cleanse. I’ve heard it called other names but, this is the one where you drink water with lemon, honey and cayenne pepper. As a personal trainer this conversation was incredibly frustrating to me. If I hadn’t been called out for my appointment I would have jumped in with my two cents. Although maybe it was better I didn’t get the chance!

The two women who had tried cleanses were significantly overweight which means they are probably not doing what they should to take care of their health on a regular basis. The thing that was so frustrating to me is that they’re talking about this cleanse as if it’s the solution to their issues with their health and weight. The truth is that no cleanse in the world is going to solve the real problem.

It’s not that there is anything necessarily wrong with doing a cleanse or a detox. They can be a good way to jump start your fitness program. They can help you break your current bad patterns of eating. They can help to get you ready psychologically for a new way of living. They immediately remove all the junk from your diet and reduce your calorie intake.

The problem is not with the detox itself, although I’m sure some of them are not good for you. The problem is the misunderstanding and the misinformation that tends to surround these cleanse regimens. People think that the cleanse is doing something magic to their bodies, cleaning out all the bad stuff and making them pure and healthy. They think the ingredients in these cleanse concoctions is a magic elixir with super healing (and slimming) power.

The only reason a cleanse does …

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