Cut out processed foods. The second habit to work on this week is to cut out processed foods processed foods are full of artificial or chemical substances. Examples of processed foods include cakes, chips, cookies, fast food and soda. like alcohol processed foods are a toxic substance that many people consume on a daily basis. There is also often a lot of sugar and sodium in these, I call them Franken foods and they are contributing to the epidemic of fatty liver disease. There are many negative symptoms of eating processed foods regularly.
These include sell an organ damage, the toxins in processed foods damage your cells and vital organs, which can cause them to function improperly and have numerous adverse effects on your health. Chronic Disease numerous studies have shown that the artificial ingredients and process foods can increase your risk for a range of chronic diseases including cancer, diabetes, heart disease and more digestive problems. In addition to their high chemical content processed foods also contain very little fiber. This can lead to a range of digestive complaints, including heartburn, constipation and diarrhea. reduced energy levels, many other toxins and processed foods have an adverse effect on your energy level and can leave you feeling tired, lethargic and unproductive. These fake foods or frankenfoods, as I like to call them, create an enormous amount of inflammation.
If your gut and brain are inflamed, you are going to have brain fog fatigue, bloating, joint pain, hormonal imbalances, and be at greater risk for autoimmune disease. The detrimental impact of these food sources to your health cannot be underestimated. Weight Gain there is an obesity epidemic it's all around. Processed foods have played a huge role in this epidemic. Processed foods are packed with calories which lead to weight gain. They also contain numerous addictive substances make you more prone to overeating and cause further weight gain.
Avoid processed foods for the next 30 days. This will help protect you against toxins within these processed foods and help boost your health and your energy. If you currently eat lots of processed foods, and need some help giving them up here are four tips to get you started. Get your sugar from fruits and honey. One of the main reasons people eat so many processed foods is they want a sugar fix sugar is highly addictive. by filling up on fruits and honey, you can satisfy your sweet tooth while also providing your body with lots of essential nutrients.
Replaced fried meat with wild salmon, black bean patties and marinated meats. Fried meats are one of the most popular foods around, however, by switching to healthier protein sources. Season with a mixture of spices and extra virgin olive oil. You can enjoy a bountiful flavor without any toxic chemicals. Replaced chips with roasted nuts and seeds. Chips are another highly addictive processed food that many people consume by roasting your favorite nuts or seeds in extra virgin olive oil and your favorite spices you can replicate the great taste of the chips and replace their harmful ingredients with a dose of health.
The fats. In the recipe guide included in this program there is a wonderful recipe for spice nuts and even kale chips. Replace soda with fruit infused water or herbal tea. Soda is one of the most damaging processed foods around the goodness is that there are plenty of sweet but healthy liquid alternatives to soda available including fruit infused water and herbal teas. Both of these options contain no calories, and no harmful chemical ingredients. There are several options available for you to try included in your detox your body and mind in 30 days recipe guide.
Okay, let's move on to habit three. Avoiding the news. You may be surprised to see avoid the news listed as something you should do as part of your detox program. After all, the news is something Many of us turn into every day. It is often perceived as an essential and positive tool that keeps people informed and up to date and lets them know what's going on in the world around them. However, when you take a closer look at the news, it's easy to see how it can become a mental and physical toxin that has a detrimental effect on your happiness and well being.
It would be nice if we heard and saw more good stories than bad stories. However, this is not the case. There are many harmful effects the news can have on the body in mind. First of all, it's a negative influence. Well, there are positive news stories out there an overwhelming amount of what gets covered in the news is negative. War, terrorism, murder and corruption constantly make the headlines and get the majority of coverage in the mainstream media.
This negative time can have a detrimental effect on your outlook in life and cause you to become increasingly cynical towards other people, situations and circumstances around you. It can make you fearful and promote a feeling of helplessness. It damages your body. The negative stories that get covered in the news are designed to incite anger, fear and stress. For example, when you see a story in the news about a terrorist attack, your initial reaction is often a strong, angry fearful feeling towards the people responsible for the attack. These reactions cause cortisol, the stress hormone, to be released into your body.
If the levels of cortisol in your body become excessive, they can damage your body and ultimately lead to chronic fatigue, heart disease, unbalanced blood glucose levels, weight gain, and a weakened immune system. And even more than that it's addictive news stories are structured in a way that leave you wanting more. If a crime is reported, you're encouraged to keep following the story to find out what happened to the people involved. If a war breaks out, you're encouraged to keep coming back to see how it develops. This can cause you to unknowingly develop an addiction to the news and become reliant on it as a daily source of fulfillment. It wastes your time.
Boy, we live in a world where we are way more sedentary than we need to be. And this creates its own health risk. Many people don't realize how much time they are actually spend consuming the news. However, if you spend 30 minutes each morning and evening, consuming the news and then check it sporadically throughout the day, in five or 10 minute intervals. You can easily split Then an hour or more per day on the news. When you consider that many news stories are repeated and you consume very little new information while you're reading or watching the news, it's easy to see how this time could be used more productively.
It inhibits your creativity. The news is filled with bias agendas. Every story is reported in a way that influences your opinion and makes you think about it in a very specific way. This bias and influence from the news affects the way you think about other things in your daily life. It prevents you from approaching tasks and projects in an objective way, which has a detrimental effect on your creativity. by stepping back from the news for the next 30 days, you'll not only free up a whole lot of your time in that busy schedule of yours, but you'll quickly start to feel much calmer and more positive The best way to avoid the news will depend on your own personal consumption habits.
Having said that, there are some effective ways you can use to shield yourself from the news during the next 30 days. Assess your current news consumption habits. By making a list of the times you consume the news each day and the mediums you use to consume it, you will get a better understanding of the best ways for you to avoid the news and then create an effective action plan. For example, if you realize that you watch the news nightly, you can turn off the TV and schedule another activity during this time. If you notice that you always read the news on a certain website, you can actively avoid the website. Avoid news conversations.
Even if you're not directly consuming the news, it's likely that there are people in your Like we talked about it regularly by identifying these people and then either telling them that you're avoiding the news for the next 30 days, or shifting the conversation to a new topic, you'll cut out this indirect news source. Block news websites. While setting the intention to avoid news websites is a good start taking extra precautions and blocking these sites act as an extra line of defense during the time to get tempted. There are lots of apps browsers, extensions and software programs available that can be used to block updates from news sites. So find one that works for you. cancel your newspaper subscription.
If you have a newspaper subscription, it's important that you cancel it for the duration of your detox to avoid any potential temptation or just throw it in the recycle bin if you don't want to cancel it. unsubscribe from news emails. emails are another source that can potentially reintroduced the news into your life when you're trying to avoid it. So if you're subscribed to any emails that provide news updates, unsubscribe or simply delete them once or source of stress that we are all inundated with is too many emails in fact, so having a few less emails can help reduce your stress level further. Remove news apps from smartphones and tablets. If you have any news apps on your smartphone or tablet, they'll need to be removed.
Even if you turn off notifications from these apps. Having the news just one click away is a temptation you don't want during your detox. Substitute TV news consumption. If you watch TV news at specific times each day Turn off the TV and choose another activity to do during this time instead. There are a lot of things you can do during this time, such as reading a book, going for a walk or spending time with your friends and family or taking up a new hobby.