How to Detox Your Body

It is important to keep in mind a few things as we navigate detox and cleanse messages during this time of year. First, our body has a pretty amazing system in place that detoxes your body on the daily. And second, all those packages of juices, shakes, and supplements are trying to profit off your fears. The very same fears that those products are perpetuating in their marketing. One way to avoid the pitfalls of very convincing messages cultivated to help us part with our hard-earned dollars in exchange for a box of green juice or a canister of powder is to know more about how the body works.

Gentle NutritionAmber HansonMarch 18, 2021gentle nutrition

How to Approach Picky Eating

It can take 15 or more exposures to a food before it is accepted. Try serving it in different ways too – roasted, sautéed, raw (for things like veggies and fruit), shredded, cubed, etc. Flavors and textures of food change depending on how they are prepared. Just keep serving it! You can also introduce foods during non-mealtimes to take some of the pressure off from eating it. Talk about foods you see while prepping, grocery shopping, in a garden, on the counter. Let kids touch and play with food to get more familiar with it.

Eat Lower on the Food Processing Chain

Instead of refined pasta pick whole, intact grains like quinoa, farro or brown rice. Instead of fruit snacks choose no-sugar added fresh, frozen, or dried fruit. Instead of puffed veggie stix pick actual vegetables (fresh, frozen, heck – even canned). Instead of chicken nuggets grab a package of chicken thighs.

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