Topic: cleansing

Get Off The Grid For Labor Day To Reset For Fall

Get Off The Grid For Labor Day To Reset For Fall

It was a plum assignment for a food, travel and fitness writer – go on a five day white water rafting and catered camping trip on the Rogue River in Oregon. Adventures on the water all day, new fitness challenges, abundant, cooked from scratch meals to feed a ravenous appetite, nights spent under the stars of the Northwest Pacific. All expenses paid, and a paid story assignment, to boot. The only catch? I’d be off the grid for five days. More »

Save Yourself From A Summer Juice Cleanse You’ll Regret

Save Yourself From A Summer Juice Cleanse You'll Regret

Juice cleanses: We’ve tried them, we’ve liked them, and we’ve also hated them. We like the idea of giving your organs a break (i.e. paying someone else to do all the cooking for a week), but we don’t like the fact that many women treat them more like a fad diet than a chance to renew their health. (Plus, there’s the fact that the “high” we get from a detox is probably just our body starving itself.) More »

Feeling Like a Toxic Waste Dump? 4 Simple Tips For A Quick Body Detox

Feeling Like a Toxic Waste Dump? 4 Simple Tips For A Quick Body Detox

Is a detox really necessary? In short, yes. The large number of pollutants we encounter every day complicates the body’s detoxification efforts, which in turn leaves the body more vulnerable to illnesses and disease, not to mention hormonal imbalances. While you may have the perfect detox diet and supplements already lined up, by integrating these four steps you will ensure a more successful spring cleaning. More »

The Key To Permanent Weight Loss Could Be Detox Diets—But Not The Kind You Think

The Key To Permanent Weight Loss Could Be Detox Diets—But Not The Kind You Think

What if the secret to weight loss wasn’t really a secret at all? According to Christine Gerbstadt, author of Doctor’s Detox Diet, The Ultimate Weight Loss Prescription, everything we need to slim down is right in front of us–no special fasting diets, lemonade drinks or meal replacement bars. Instead, she says the key is to choose whole foods that work together to support our organs. Specifically our liver, kidneys, skin, intestines and lymphatics. When we optimize these organs through our diet choices, they remove more toxins and waste, fight inflammation, and speed-up metabolism to burn existing fat and keep it off. More »

Fact Or Fiction: Detoxing And Cleansing Can Lead To Overhydration

Fact Or Fiction: Detoxing And Cleansing Can Lead To Overhydration

If you’re trying to flush out your system after a holiday of indulgences (or just because you feel gross) with a detox or cleanse, you’ve probably heard a lot of the same advice: drink lots of water! Cut out sodium and sugar and caffeine and fat! All raw, all the time! Which are all fine tips in moderation…but isn’t there such a thing as too little sodium? What about overhydration? Can you flush too much? More »

Locker-Room Saunas: Are They Really Helping You Get Fit?

Locker-Room Saunas: Are They Really Helping You Get Fit?

I like the locker-room sauna. Not only can a little post-workout steam nap make me feel like I’ve been more productive than I was (it’s the total time spent at the gym that counts, right?), but I love the heat and that euphoric, loose-muscled, slightly loopy feeling you get. And I swear that 15 minutes in the sauna can relieve my headaches. But I had only vague ideas about what saunas are actually intended for—sweating out toxins? Losing water weight? Releasing muscle tension? At the risk of sounding annoyingly Seinfeldian: What’s the deal with saunas? More »

Cleansing Diets For Health, Not Weight Loss — Blisstree’s Detox Basics, Part 1

Cleansing Diets For Health, Not Weight Loss — Blisstree's Detox Basics, Part 1

New to cleansing, or just want to learn more about the whole detox trend? This is the first in our series exploring the ins and outs of detox diets and cleanses, and all the juices, supplements, lemonades, and scary colon treatments that go along with them. Stay tuned for more in our Detox 101 series.

As someone who’s always been curious about alternative health and natural food, I’ve tried a cleanse or two in my time, with positive and negative results. I’ve flirted with the Master Cleanse, but lasted less than three days on a diet of maple and cayenne, vowing to never listen to friends and roommates who claimed it gave them “great energy” after day seven. But I’ve also tried cleanses I loved: Namely, ones where I’m allowed to eat. A positive experience with a reasonably-priced box of cleansing supplements and two-week diet of no dairy, meat, fish, caffeine, sugar, wheat, or processed foods made a cleansing fan out of me — by the end of the two weeks, with caffeine withdrawal and sugar cravings behind me, I felt fantastic; nothing like the deprived, irritable wreck the Master Cleanse made of me. That positive experience inspired my most recent adventure in the world of detox: An eight-day stint of nothing but raw foods and juices from New York’s popular Organic Avenue. More »

Jessica Simpson Detoxes, Then Gets Drunk

Jessica Simpson Detoxes, Then Gets Drunk

There are so many reasons to detox, but given Jessica Simpson’s recent post-cleanse feast and stagger episode, we doubt she’s choosing the right ones. The New York Post reported this morning that the star was seen knocking back sake at Katsuya, a Japanese restaurant in Hollywood, celebrating her first real meal in days after a detoxing cleanse. (Exactly which cleanse she was on, they don’t know, but Simpson has tweeted about her vegan detox diets in the past.) More »

Raw, Vegan Recipe: Zesty Detox Soup With Lime, Spinach, and Avocado

Raw, Vegan Recipe: Zesty Detox Soup With Lime, Spinach, and Avocado

Douglas McNish, head chef of Toronto’s Raw Aura organic and raw restaurant is back to share one of his raw, vegan recipes. Watch for more of his recipes, published twice a month here at Blisstree.com.

This soup is amazing this time of year, when most of us are lacking in healthy fats and trace minerals. Plus, the dulse provides your thyroid gland the help it needs to detox the body from holiday over indulging. More »

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