The Beauty Detox Solution (13 page)
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Authors: Kimberly Snyder
If we are going to veer off the plan (as we all will from time to time!) and improperly combine food groups, dinner would be the time to do it. Why? We've learned that improperly combined foods need hours to travel out of the stomach. Since we are improperly combining at the end of the day, we should allow that meal the time it needs to digest by not eating after it. If we have an improperly combined dinner at, say, 7:00 p.m., and we don't have breakfast until 10:00 a.m. the next morning, that is a full fifteen hours that we have allowed that food to move out of the stomach. On the other hand, if we
miscombine
at lunch, we've caused a traffic jam. Even if we eat fruit or a very light dinner later on in the day, those foods will sit on top of the poorly digesting lunchtime foods and will putrefy, ferment and spoil. There simply aren't enough hours in the day to eat a miscombined lunch! One of the easiest ways to compound toxicity is to eat more food of any kind after an ill-combined meal. Therefore, dinner should be our heavier meal, not lunch.
That said, we don't want to eat
right
before we go to bed. When possible, it is best to eat dinner at least three to four hours before bedtime, as food will pass through the digestive tract faster when we are awake. By eating this way, we will wake up feeling refreshed and energetic!
Your
New
Beauty Food Plan
BREAKFAST
New Belief: We won't eat until we are hungry. A lack of hunger means our bodies do not need food. When we do get hungry, we stick to light foods through the morning.
LUNCH
New Belief: Lunch is light and always properly combined so we can maintain optimal digestion and ongoing cleansing throughout the day.
DINNER
New Belief: Dinner is the time when we can relax a bit about our food choices, since we've eaten so well during the day and allowed our bodies to cleanse all day long. We aim to eat dinner three to four hours before we go to bed so that our food has time to digest optimally.
There is another reason that we incorporate heavier or cooked foods later in the day. It's important to transition our diets gradually, making sure we don't make a drastic switch to any kind of diet plan too quickly. By slowing the cleansing process at the end of the day with heavier or cooked foods at dinner, we avoid detoxing too much, too quickly, but we still make incredible progress, since we are staying clear and light during our
entire
day. The extra hours of ongoing cleansing really start to add up the more days we keep the path clear.
BEAUTY DETOX RECAP
It is not just what we eat that counts, but what nutrients we are
able to use
from what we eat. When digestion is slow, a good deal of our food can ferment and putrefy, which creates unusable material for the body.
When we practice proper Beauty Food Pairings, we will free up a lot of Beauty Energy from digestion, which can be used to rebuild our skin and hair, make us feel more energetic in our everyday lives and make weight loss easy.
Photocopy the Beauty Food Pairing Cheat Sheet and consult it until you're familiar with how to optimally combine foods.
Eat Light to Heavy throughout the whole day to free up Beauty Energy and promote sustained weight loss.
Refer to Your New Beauty Food Plan to familiarize yourself with the basic framework of eating Light to Heavy throughout the day.
BEAUTY MINERALS AND ENZYMES
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into a giant oak. Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
âGeorge Bernard Shaw
Now that we've gone through the basic paradigm of our eating plan, let's talk about two key elements that contribute to beautyâminerals and enzymes.
Minerals are one of the keys to beauty, and an incredible 95 percent of our body's activities involve minerals. Our own body's biochemistry is dependent on our mineral sources. As you'll find out in this chapter, it is easy to provide the body with the essential minerals it needs when we are eating correctly.
Enzymes are the catalysts for hundreds of different processes in the body, including the rebuilding and renewal of skin collagen. Certain enzymes do not become truly active until the right quantities of trace and major minerals are present. And, we need living, active enzymes to fully absorb and assimilate our beauty minerals. Minerals and enzymes are best friends!
BEAUTY TIP
Get Your Dream Hair!
Our hair is part of our body, and our living hair follicles are rooted in our scalp, where they get their nutrition to be strong and healthy. I have personally experienced a dramatic transformation in my own hair since I started following the Beauty Detox Solution. In the past, my hair was a limp messâI used to have to always pull it into a bun. Or I would have to allow up to an hour a day to blow-dry and style it to make it look presentable. But when I started the Beauty Detox, my hair became thick and bouncy. Now I just comb it in the shower and let it air-dry, and it looks good. Thank goodness it improved!
Thin, lifeless hair is an indication of a larger and more involved issue. We can't just focus on the hair specifically without taking the overall health of our body into account, just as with our skin. Though it is true that we all have different textures and hair types, when our hair is brittle or prematurely turning gray, it can be an indication that the body is lacking specific minerals and our diet must change to meet our body's needs. We can't just depend on expensive hair salon products! Until we work to alkalize and cleanse out some of our internal blockages, we cannot completely absorb the minerals present in our food or specific supplements.
You will find that the principles we apply to make our skin radiant and our weight effortlessly peel off our body are the same principles that will help bring that healthy sheen and bounce back to our hair. Increasing your intake of alkaline and mineral-rich foods, while simultaneously cleansing the clogging, acidic waste matter from your system, will increase your hair's vitality and give you those shampoo-commercial locks.
ESSENTIAL BEAUTY MINERALS
Where do minerals come from? They primarily come from the soil, which is why the quality of soil is so important, and why we want to buy as much organic produce as possible, since organic soil has a higher mineral content than traditional farming soil. Some studies show up to 87 percent more minerals in certain organic fruits and vegetables!
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The minerals filter into plants through the water in the soil, which contains the wide spectrum of soluble minerals that are absorbed into plants, then move through the plants' stems, and out into their leaves. Eating plants is like eating pure sun energy and pure mineral content.
Green plants are our number one food group for providing us with all the minerals that we need for superior beauty and nutrition, while simultaneously giving us the vitamins and the amino acids that we need to build protein. If we eat greens abundantly and get a good variety of them in our diet, we will inherently get the wide spectrum of minerals we need into our bodies. Greens are also among our strongest detox weapons, since their powerful alkalinity helps root poison out the more consistently we consume them!
The High-Mineral Foods chart is a
partial
list of high mineral-containing greens and other foods. Animal proteins, which we learned are complex to digest and leave acidic residue in our bodies, are allowed in moderation for those that really want to keep them in the diet, but are not included below since we do not rely on them for the majority of our minerals.
ENZYMES BUILD BEAUTY
In the mainstream health world we often hear about measuring a food's worth by its protein, calorie and carbohydrate content. But what about enzymes? As you will discover, in the words of natural health pioneer Dr. Ann Wigmore, “enzyme preservation is the secret to health.” Dr. Wigmore isn't the only researcher to underscore the importance of enzymes. Dr. Troland of Harvard University once said, “Life is something which has been built up about the enzyme; it is a corollary of enzyme activity.” And to that quote, I'd like to add that enzymes are also a major secret to beauty!
Live enzymes are the catalyst for every human function. They are, as Dr. Edward Howell, one of the fathers of food enzyme research, said, “chemical protein complexes and bioenergy reservoirs.” Scientists have identified over five thousand different enzymes that
our bodies utilize and manufacture, but there may be far more.
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Enzymes are catalysts of biochemical reactions in living beings and perform thousands of important life-supporting functions. For example, enzymes help repair our DNA, help digest our food and help us assimilate the nutrients within food. They repair and prevent wrinkles, help even our skin tone and contribute to smooth, youthful skin. Enzymes also help speed up weight loss and detoxification as they free up more metabolic energy. We need as many enzymes as possible to support these functions.
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High-Mineral Foods
High-Mineral Foods
We were born with a huge enzyme reserve, but this reserve decreases over time, causing aging and a slowing of the metabolism. Dr. Meyer and his research associates at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago found that the enzyme level in adults aged twenty-one to thirty-one was thirty times greater than in adults aged sixty-nine to one hundred.
BEAUTY TIP
A Few of the Top Beauty Minerals
SILICON:
Makes our hair thick, our nails strong, and increases our vitality. It is also excellent for smooth, beautiful skin and can improve wrinkles. Silicon also strengthens the connective tissues and bones and helps keep us flexible.
ZINC:
Helps rebuild our collagen to make the skin healthy, glowing and smooth, and helps prevent wrinkles, stretch marks, radiation damage and other signs of aging.
IRON:
Generates a magnetic blood current, as iron is the center of the hemoglobin molecule, which carries oxygen throughout the body. Healthy, oxygenated blood stimulates healthy circulation, resulting in a gorgeous, highly attractive glow in the skin. Iron also boosts our energy levels and immunity, while encouraging restful sleep.
MAGNESIUM:
Opens up three hundred different detoxification pathways in the body and is a key mineral for keeping our bowels regular, a crucial part of our ongoing cleansing program. A strengthening beauty mineral, magnesium helps the bones absorb calcium and plays an important role in converting vitamin D to its active hormonal form.
POTASSIUM:
Is an essential balancing mineral. Since potassium is an electrolyte, we rely on it to maintain our body's proper fluid levels. It helps balance the levels of other minerals, especially sodium. Potassium is needed for cellular cleansing, as it regulates the transfer of nutrients into cells and is crucial for the elimination of wastes.
CALCIUM:
Is a strengthening mineral, as it helps keep our bones strong, our posture upright, and enables us to move gracefully.
True Beauty Story
PAT DAVIS IS A CLIENT OF MINE WHO IS THIRTY-NINE YEARS OLD AND HAS
three children under the age of twelve. She spends the majority of her time running after her children, including the youngest, who is two years old. When she drove into the city from New Jersey to meet me for the first time, she was thin and paleâalmost fragile lookingâwith a dusting of freckles. Her light brown hair was incredibly thin and full of split ends. But what I noticed most of all was her skin. It was uneven and dull, she had dark circles under her eyes and her face looked droopy. My first thought was that this woman was way too young to be aging this quickly!
Overeating and losing weight were not the issues; restoring her beauty was. I could tell that she was eating a diet deficient in alkaline minerals, and her skin publicly announced that to the entire world. No amount of makeup could make up for the lack of radiant skin and a healthy, toxin-free blood flow to her face. She had spent over a decade focusing on the health and well-being of her children, and now she was ready to start focusing on herself and liking how she looked again.
Her diet turned out be very rich in highly refined starches and had hardly any greens or other vegetables. It was made up of Cheerios, bagels, tuna fish or ham sandwiches on rye bread, Pop-Tarts, and pretty much whatever her kids liked eating. For dinner she made a lot of chicken and rice dishes, mac and cheese, rice and beans, or any other combo that was easy to make for her large family.
We started exploring ways she could bring in more Beauty Minerals, such as by consuming a much larger amount of greens and other vegetables. She started having the Glowing Green Smoothie every morning, making it in batches to last two days, so she could save time by making it only every other day. I showed her how to make easy, tasty green salads that she could toss together while making her kids' lunches and dinners, so she wouldn't feel like she was making two completely different meals. We also incorporated some cleansing aids, including eating lots of Probiotic & Enzyme Salad, and taking a daily probiotic supplement and digestive enzymes. We always have to address not only adding
in
healthy new foods but also working on cleaning
out
the old sludge.
After a few weeks her skin already looked more smooth and plumped up, and many of the fine lines on her face had diminished. Her eyes shone with an inner light, and the cracked edges of her lips had healed and her lips had started to plump up. Now it has been over eight months since we started working together. Her hair has developed a gorgeous sheen, and her face literally looks ten years younger. While she is actually making different foods for herself and her kids for many of their meals, she still feels like she has
more
energy and
more
time on her hands. She is now one very sexy mom! I look forward to being a witness to her growing younger and younger as the years go on.