Good Tasting Natural Colon Cleanse?

June 21, 2009 by Michael Richardson  
Filed under Diet

Given all the toxins in today’s world, just thought everyone would benefit from a colon cleanse, especially natural colon cleanse. However a lot of people don’t even consider it because they assume that it tastes terrible and is hard to do.

it’s certainly reasonable to take taste into consideration when considering a colon cleanse. But actually most colon cleanse recipes are at worst bland. Several might actually be considered tasty.

In addition to high fiber foods, spices and herbs are also used in natural colon cleansing recipes. Obviously since we use these to season our food, they can make for a tasty colon cleanse as well.

A lot of natural colon cleanses depend on natural high fiber for part of their effectiveness. Some high fiber foods are actually quite tasty.

You very frequently will find spices and herbs as ingredients in homemade colon cleanse is. Since you use spices to season our food, it’s not hard to imagine that some cleansing recipes might actually taste good.

Garlic is well-known for its healthful properties so many people include it in their cleansing recipes. If you like garlic as much as I do, this is a good thing. Ginger and cayenne pepper are the spices that are commonly used as well.

Recently I’ve been seeing a number recipes that include cinnamon, one my favorites.

Some schools of cooking routinely use many different spices, so meals prepared in this tradition have cleansing properties just because of the spices and herbs used in the preparation of the food.

If you can develop a taste for Indian curries, you’ll be doing yourself a favor. A traditional curries prepared by adding several different spices at different stages in food preparation. Many of these spices have both anti-inflammatory and cleansing properties.

Many curry recipes are vegetarian. Depending on the combination of vegetables used the cleansing properties can be further enhanced.

In my opinion, carefully prepared Indian food is one of the healthiest cuisines available.

After you have some experience with colon cleanses you recognize why a certain ingredients are included in a given cleanse. You be able to make substitutions that are more suited to your tastes and goals.

A lot of times you can create your own good tasting cleanse recipes if you keep some to general principles in mind and combine ingredients that please you.

For example, if you don’t like the strong taste of raw garlic you can chop it and let sit for five minutes or so and then gently took it to soften its flavor. Part of garlic’s healthiness comes from compounds that are formed when enzymes within the garlic are activated when is crushed or chop. If you cook the garlic you need the after chopping it, those enzymes are inactivated by the heat before they’ve had a chance to make the transformation. This simple step let’s you get the benefit of garlic without as much of the strong taste.

Of course, if your doing a colon cleanse it doesn’t make any sense to purposely put toxins in your body. So if you drink alcohol or smoke consider giving those habits up. Also remember that drinking plenty of pure water helps flush toxins from your body.

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