Living Beauty Detox Program: The Revolutionary Diet for Each and Every Season of a Woman's Life

by Ann Louise Gittleman

Overview

SPRING — time to rejuvenate. Leafy green vegetables, dandelion root tea, dill, mint, and chlorophyll-rich parsley cleanse the system, balance energy, and aid digestion.

SUMMER — an active season. Rose hips tea, garlic, cayenne pepper, and oregano, along with the Living Beauty Elixir, promote vitality, make the heart strong, and increase nutrient absorption.

AUTUMN — time for inward reflection and preparation for the darkness of winter. Fenugreek tea and warming foods and spices like cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg protect the lungs, aid in elimination, and boost the immune system, leaving you with vibrant skin.

WINTER — a season of stillness and rest. Getting enough sleep and eating cooked or warm foods spiced with ginger sustains body heat and immunity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062516282
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/10/2001
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Ann Louise Gittlemanis an award-winning author of thirty books and a highly respected health pioneer. She has appeared on 20/20, Dr. Phil, The View, Good Morning America, Extra!, Good Day New York, CNN, PBS, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CBN, FOX News, and the BBC. Her work has been featured in national publications including Time; Newsweek; Harper's Bazaar; O, The Oprah Magazine; Seventeen; Fitness; Cosmopolitan; Parade; USA Weekend; Woman's World; the New York Times; and the Los Angeles Times. Gittleman has been recognized as one of the top ten nutritionists in the country by Self magazine and has received the American Medical Writers Association award for excellence.

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Turning Beauty Inside out

you really can be beautifully transformed and unlock your individual potential. And you don't have to have those illusory perfect-ten features to do it, either, Just by following the Living Beauty regimen in this book, true beautyis just weeks away. No kidding. You'll actually start to see improvements in those troublesome ailments you've been fighting,whether it's cracks around your mouth, a pimply face, a sallow complexion, thinning hair, premature wrinkling, blotchy skin, fatty deposits likecellulite, splitting nails, soft bones, or even unhealthy gums that are ruining your smile. The key to developing a beautiful physical appearance is to start from the inside out by clearing a way physical and emotional toxins. Simply slapping on moisturizers and coverups just won'tdo it anymore, especially with the overload of waste materials and poisons inundating all of us in this new millennium. The truth is, in today'stoxic world you have to go deeper to create total beauty, which means properly cleansing your body on all levels. Which is why detoxifying your system has never been more important or more urgent to your overall well being and looks.

That's where this book promises help. Filled with cutting-edge science, ancient wisdom, and common sense, it will show you how to turn your present approach to beauty and health around -- or rather, inside out.

You'll begin by starting fresh with a clean slate, cleansing your way to beauty with a clear-cut detox diet plan designedin harmony with nature's seasons. Both the Living Beauty Detox Diets and the maintenance pro-gram (which you can alter to suit your individual needs) includebeauty-building foods, herbs, spices, and essential fatty acids to help repair,strengthen, and invigorate cells so you have a rejuvenated, youthful glow.Then to further enhance your newly acquired radiant looks, you'll also find a number of natural beauty tips and routines that have been specifically designed for your special concerns during your particular stage of life. You'll also discover ways to take your quest for beauty to higher ground,because beauty goes far beyond the physical. I've found that beauty actually emanates from your spiritual, emotional, and mental being, so I've included some innovative methods to help you remove the "inner" toxinsfrom your deepest I self. In addition, you'll learn how to identify and protect yourself from unsuspected "outer" toxins that lurk about in your home surroundings and thwart your beauty on a daily basis. Finally, we'll wrap it upwith a review of the Living Beauty Alphabet of Vitamins and Minerals,showing where they are found and what is the optimum beauty dosage that will help you sustain your new beauty foundation and continue to secure younger -- looking skin, silky hair, strong nails, and a trimmer body. As you embark on this journey to create a more glorious, beautiful image in side and out, you can be sure of one thing: you'll be enveloped in a joyous and rewarding experience of self-discovery that will undoubtedly transcend the media-manufactured beauty values you once held so dear.

The Living Beauty Mainstays

When you are feeling your best, you look your best. In fact, unless you are nutritionally supported from within, it is virtually impossible to look really good because real beauty isn't just skin-deep. Beauty isn't about how thin you are, about smearing some cover-up on your face, or even about wearing the right kind of lipstick. Achieving true beauty-even in our media-swayed, visual society-begins by turning things inside out. Here are the dynamic seven beauty fundamentals every woman needs in her life.

a cleansed, detoxed system

purified water

powerful proteins

beautifying oils

energizing, immune-boosting veggies and fruits

revitalizing vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants

balanced hormones

When you look in the mirror and notice beauty problems-dull, grayish skin, brittle hair from hell, and thin, splitting nails-you're actually seeing outward reflections of inner imbalances caused not only by a lack of the vital Living Beauty essentials mentioned above, but also by toxic overload and mental, emotional, or spiritual blocks. These beauty thieves manifest themselves throughout the different ages and stages of our lives and are heightened by everyday stress and natural hormonal shifts. Let's take a closer look at each one.

Toxic Overload: Beautify Your System

Beautiful definitely begins by detoxifying your body. It is the first step toward a healthier, more radiant you. After all, every day you're immersed in a chemical war -- outside and inside your body. A sea of toxins surrounds you, from environmental chemicals in solvents, plastics, and adhesives to poisons in makeup, moisturizers,. nail polish, hair dyes, and shampoos. Even food and soil are inundated with pesticides and herbicides, not to mention the contaminants and parasites lurking in water, Everything you touch, taste, breathe, and eat is propelling the leading engine of the detoxification process, your liver, into overdrive. And once your liver becomes overwhelmed by all the poisons it has to neutralize, transform, or process, it loses its ability to function properly. This in turn leads to a cascade of disastrous health consequences and causes vital body systems to malfunction-as well as the quality of your beauty to suffer.

A lean, mean, chemical-clearing machine, the liver cleans one and one-half quarts of blood every minute of the day so that other organs can be nourished by purified blood, and it neutralizes toxic wastes, sending them off to the next detox organ, the kidneys, for elimination. The liver also, chemically deactivates vital hormones (such as estrogen), thereby maintaining hormonal balance, sustains the body's major detoxification pathways, makes bile salts, produces cholesterol and amino acids, stores vitamin A, D, B12 and iron, metabolizes fat for energy, and regulates blood sugar for energy. Alcohol, prescription or over-the-counter drugs, fatty foods, smoking, and a plethora of environmental toxins (from pesticides and exhaust fumes to hair spray and gasoline) thwart the work of this blockbuster workaholic.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	1
1	Turning Beauty Inside Out	5
2	The Road to Ruin Is Paved with Good Intentions	13
3	Seasonal Beauty: Internal Cleansing and Support for Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter	27
4	Spring Seasonal Detox Diet	49
5	Summer Seasonal Detox Diet	62
6	Autumn Seasonal Detox Diet	78
7	Winter Seasonal Detox Diet	95
8	Beauty Routines for Ages and Stages	108
9	Detoxing the Inner	147
10	Detoxing the Outer	162
11	Living Beauty Alphabet of Vitamins and Minerals	177
Appendix	The Two-Week Fat Flush	203
	Selected References	211
	Resources	221
	Index	235

Editorial Reviews

Proper detoxification of the body is vital to maintaining good health and exterior beauty. This book provides four seasonal detox diets -- each one delicately attuned to the body's needs for that time of year -- as well as a wealth of information about the best methods for keeping your body cleansed and healthy, inside and out. The list of "good intentions" that actually wreak havoc on the body, thus causing a number of health and beauty problems, is quite surprising. For instance, did you know that complete lack of exposure to sunlight may do more harm than good? The detox diets Gittleman recommends are full of vegetables, lean protein, dietary supplements rich in fiber, and a Beauty Elixir to stimulate the liver's detoxifying process. And the fact that the diets do not require fasting and can be adapted to each individual's needs will make this excellent program attractive to women of all ages and lifestyles.

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Ann Louise has literally turned the secrets of beauty inside out. The book is a must for every woman's beauty library.

Earl Mindell