A three-day raw detox cleansing diet is sometimes highly beneficial in the search to clear dangerous pollutants from your system and also provide a great jump start to a raw food regime. The body boasts the instinctive ability of filtering out environmental and diet toxins via the liver, kidneys, lungs, and skin. The secret is giving it the raw (no pun intended) equipment to do just that.

While there are many variations to the three-day detox diet, all of them follow these basic key points:

- quit smoking cigarettes, consuming coffee, consuming processed foods and table sugar, and drinking alcohol
- eat lots of ripe vegetables and fruit
- eat soaked nuts and seeds
- drink lots of clean water

Following a three-day raw diet simply involves enjoying raw fruits, veggies, herbs, and / or nuts and seeds for your nutrition. Eliminating beef and dairy helps to further cleanse the system of dangerous bacteria and toxins that enter into the body as a consequence of consuming dead animal products and / or processed food. Detoxifying your body helps to clean the blood which in turn aids in renewing the filtering organs helping to optimize their functions.

This detox diet will give your body an opportunity to flush noxious waste material without additional toxins entering the system at the same time. As well as the raw food, a successful raw detox may include raw herbs that may further help in the internal cleaning of the body.

Infusions using products like:

• milk thistle
• ginger
• star anise
• fennel

and other herbs can be made with hot water and can really help your body release toxic substances and poisons in as little as a few days.

Besides raw detoxing foods, one must consume plenty of water on this detox. Raw living food contains masses of water in them, but to replace a body that’s just about eighty percent liquid, plenty of pure clean water is advantageous. Each critical chemical process that happens in the body needs water, including the removing of toxins, so it is of the greatest importance that pure water consumption stays high. Drinking plenty of water also helps the kidneys and liver in processing and removing the toxins you will need to get rid of during your detoxing diet, permitting you to release a lot of them by way of urination and sweating.

Just like someone who is making an attempt to detoxify from an alcohol addiction, drinking plenty of water and relaxing in a sauna can truly move this toxin release to a higher level. Please talk about these suggestions with your GP before giving them a try. The sauna detoxification might be one to add to your detox regime when you become more experienced.

Pamela is a raw foodist and mother of 3. See her other publication: Raw Food Diet For Weight Loss and her site: Raw Food Health