The best way to treat your skin right? Cleanse gently.
Use warm water, and limit bath time. Hot water and long showers remove oils from the skin that are essential for keeping it hydrated. What can happen to dry skin? Skin irritation, acne, and a rough texture are all things you want to avoid. Murad Acne offers a few great options for gentle face cleansers to treat your skin well and keep irritation at bay.
5. Green Tea
We all know by now that this is the drink of Gods, but why's it good for detoxing?
Rich in antioxidants, green tea is one of the healthiest ways to get more fluids into your system. And bonus: it contains catechins, which speed up liver activity.
Not only does garlic taste great, but it's great for you! My grandma used to pop one whole garlic clove a day. While I wouldn’t recommend that extreme, grandma knew what she was doing. Garlic has been linked to heart-health and activates liver enzymes that help filter out junk.
Add it to everything- salads, sauces, spreads.
3. Watercress
Throw a handful of these peppery little greens into salads, soups and sandwiches. Watercress has a diuretic effect that helps to move things through your system. It’s also rich in minerals like iron, calcium and folic acid, and vitamins A and C. Some even believe this leafy green has cancer-preventing properties.
2. LemonsAn essential part of a detox diet is keeping the fluids flowing and washing out the toxins. While water is great, fresh lemonade is even better. It's loaded with vitamin C, known as the detox vitamin, which helps to convert toxins into a water-soluble form that's easily flushed away. The bottom line: start squeezing!
1. Green Leafy Vegetables
Foods like spinach, watercress and kale are all great for flushing out the system. Their chlorophyll helps to flush out environmental toxins like heavy metals and pesticides, and they protect the liver. Eat them raw, thrown them in a broth, or blend up a juice or smoothie with fruit for a yummy and healthful alternative to sugar-filled juices or soda.
With summer swinging into gear, there's no better time to give your body a healthy, fresh start. The following posts will give you the best foods to do these three things:
1. Give you lots of super healthy liquids to flush out the body while pouring in the nutrients.
2. Fiber, fiber, fiber to keep you GI tract fit.
Research in the American Journal of Epidemiology showed people who ate large amounts of fruit performed the best over 10 years in verbal fluency, logical reasoning and visual memory tests. Researchers say it's the antioxidants in fruit that keeps your mind operating at its best.
Baskin Robbin’s Large Heath Bar Shake (32 oz)
2,310 calories
266 g sugar
108 g fat (64 g saturated)
The Numbers:
73: The number of ingredients in this milkshake.
66: Teaspoons of sugar.
11: The number of Heath Bars you would eat to equal the calories found in this milkshake.
240: The number of minutes on the treadmill you’d have to spend burning it off.
Pina Colada
625 calories
75 g sugars
The sickly-sweet pineapple juice and fat-riddled coconut milk combine to make the Pina Colada a first-rate summer offender. If you're jonesin' for a cocktail try a lime daiquiri or a mojito and save as much as 400 calories per drink.
Jamba Juice Peanut Butter Moo’d Power Smoothie (30 oz)
1,170 calories
169 g sugars
30 g fat
While Jamba Juice may call this a smoothie, the calorie count puts it more in line with a milkshake; it has more grams of sugar than an entire bag of chocolate chips!
Worst Juice Imposter
Arizona Kiwi Strawberry (23.5 oz can)
360 calories
84 g of sugar
Loaded with sugar (5% juice, 95% sugar water), these hulking calorie cans, sold for just 99 cents nationwide, are quite possibly the cheapest source of empty calories available.
Many people claim they eat healthfully yet still can't drop the weight. Big news: you could be sucking up to 20% of your calories through a straw.
Worst "Healthy" Drink
Glaceau VitaminWater (any flavor; 20 oz bottle)
130 calories
33 grams sugar
