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If you’ve ever felt the need or wanted to try a detox program, eating foods from the following list will help you on your way. These are the 18 super foods you should be incorporating into your diet for optimal health. Broken down into the following categories, they are:

Detox Superfood - Strawberry

Proteins:
Pulses, including beans, lentils and seeds
Nuts
Oily fish such as salmon, tuna, mackerel or sardines

Vegetables and fruits:
Broccoli
Beetroot
Berries: Blackcurrants, blackberries, cherries and cranberries
Cabbage or brussel sprouts
Carrots
Citrus fruits such as lemons, lime and grapefruit
Garlic – fresh cloves
Ginger – fresh root
Onions – any type
Tomatoes
Watercress

Dairy:
Cheese, yogurt or milk (goats or sheep)

Starches:[
Rice – brown, wild or red

Fats and Sugars:
Honey – any variety, set or runny
Oils – any vegetable, seed or nut

Unlimited water, herbs and spices can be consumed however no salt should be eaten. Every meal should contain foods from at least two categories. Some foods from each category should be eaten each day to ensure a balanced diet.

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Juicing Vegetables

July 13th 2008 03:14

What better way to increase your vitamin and mineral intake, boost your energy and general feeling of wellbeing than to juice your own vegetables and fruits. It’s delicious, healthy and natural and the easiest way to ensure you are eating your daily serve of vegetables and fruit, especially for those who seem to have a hard time preparing and eating vegetables.

Vegetables, especially colourful vegetables appear to fight inflammation and are therefore highly recommended for rosacea sufferers. There has been some debate on whether or not nightshade vegetables such as tomatoes should be consumed while trying anti-inflammatory style diet. I have no reactions to these foods so I can and do freely eat them. They are high in phytonutrients, vitamin c and beta carotene and are a huge part of my diet. I include them in a lot of my juices as they add great flavour. If you think you may have a reaction to them, or any member of the nightshade family, just avoid them for a couple of weeks.

Healthy Vegetable Juice

Vitamins from vegetables are essential for health and growth. They are different from carbohydrates, fats and proteins as they are not broken down by the body to give us energy, instead vitamins help regulate the chemical functions that create and metabolise energy. Vitamins work best by being taken in small regular amounts to keep us healthy. Taking more vitamins than our body requires does not necessary make us healthier, in fact can have the opposite effect if taken in excess. One daily glass of freshly squeezed vegetable and fruit juice is a great supplement to add to your diet, especially if your not a great fan of vegetables. I like to mix and match my veggie juice and I although I follow recipes, I also like to experiment with them as well often throwing in whatever I have in the fridge on that particular day.

What to juice? I’m particularly fond of mixing a small amount of fruit together with vegetables. Pure fruit juices are delicious but contain a lot of sugar and are therefore best used to enhance the flavour of freshly squeezed vegetables, which if juiced on their own, can take a fair bit of getting used to. If you are new to juicing vegetables I would start off with ones containing a bit of fruit or carrot first, then experiment with all vegetables.

Heres a basic all time favourite recipe to get you started:
Carrot and Orange
4 carrots
2 small oranges, peeled

Process carrot and orange in electric juicer. Add a bit of ginger for more kick!

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Alkaline Diet and Rosacea

June 30th 2008 05:02

I myself have never tried the alkaline diet although I have considered it numerous times and will consider it in the future should my flare ups recur. My skin has greatly improved over the last month or two, I’m guessing and hoping due to my improved dietary changes. I have heard of many success’ with this type of diet and can see how it would work with the body to greatly improved a sluggish system, hence clearing of the skin, after all our skin, being the largest organ of our body is also a part of a window to assessing our general health. We all want that nice healthy glow to our skin don’t we? But not “too much” of a glow 

The alkaline diet is very cleansing in nature, helping the body and immune system rid itself of the build up of toxins causing a variety of illness’s and symptoms. As our bodies are naturally more alkaline than acidic, it makes sense to digest more alkaline type foods than acid forming foods. This is turn balances the body to a more natural state of being. You may notice that on the list of acidic foods, that there are many of the known triggers that cause flare ups in rosaceans. This supports my belief, and many others, that eating more of these alkaline foods can help with rosacea. The diet mainly consists of vegetables, juices, soups, water, some fruits and salads. Incorporating more of these types of foods along with sipping water throughout the day, helps neutralize the acids that can cause rosacea flushing (coffee, alcohol, sugar, cigarettes etc) I don’t think there is a need follow this diet strictly as that will ultimately lead to failure, but the simple act of making a conscious effort to increase your usual intake of some of these foods will certainly improve your health and hopefully your rosacea. Simple and easy changes such as drinking more water one day, having a glass of freshly squeezed vegetable juice the next, adding some extra vegetables to your meal one night or a nice hot bowl of homemade soup on the weekends won’t impede on your dietary lifestyle so much that you give up within a few days. In fact you may be surprised how easy and effective these ever so small changes make you may find yourself naturally wanting to eat more and more of the good stuff and less of the bad.

I have found that there are so many lists of alkaline/acid forming foods out there. Most of them are confusing for me, it’s no wonder I never actively tried this before. I found a very simple basic list of Alkaline and Acid forming foods from Arise and Shine a herbal detox company. It cuts out a lot of confusion of what’s deemed alkaline and what’s deemed acidic. Well to me anyway!

Here is a list of some Alkaline foods you may want to consider eating more of:
All fresh fruits
All fresh vegetables
All salad greens
All sprouts
Almonds & Sunflower seeds, soaked
Apple cider vinegar
Berries, fresh
Corn on the cob, fresh
Dates
Dried Fruit, unsulphured
Fresh or dried seasoning herbs
Fresh, raw fruit juice
Fresh, raw vegetable juice
Garlic
Grapefruit
Green Foods (algae, spirulina chlorella)
Herbal Teas
Lemons
Melons (eat with other melons only)
Millet
Molasses
Quinoa
Raisins
Sauerkraut, unsalted
Sea vegetables, well-rinsed
Vegetable broth
Vegetable soups
Wheat Grass Juice

And some of the acidic foods you may want to cut back on:
Alcohol
Black Pepper
Bread (baked)
Canned fruits & vegetables
Cake
Cereals (all)
Chocolate
Coffee
Dairy
Eggs
Foods cooked with oils
Grains (except Millet & Quinoa)
Legumes Meat, fish, birds, shellfish
Oatmeal
Pasta
Popcorn
Preservatives
Processed Foods
Salt
Soda Crackers
Soft drinks
Sugar, white & processed
Sweeteners, artificial
Tea (except, caffeine-free)
Vinegar, distilled
Wheat, all forms

This is what I would call just a rough guide of a list of foods to be aware of if you were planning the to try the alkaline diet route. Obviously eating a bowl of rice or oatmeal is a much more healthier alternative than eating a bowl of lollies so commonsense should still be applied in what and how much you choose to put in your mouth. The general rule for the alkaline diet is 80% of the foods you consume should be alkaline based and 20% should be acid. This is however a general estimate.

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