How Important Is Detox to Our Bodies?

Good health, as is well known goes hand in hand with nutrition. What we consume daily can either make or break our bodies' and their functions. Most of what we ingest ranging from food and water are provided by unknown sources. This is due to the unhealthy and busy lifestyles we lead nowadays. Most of those who live in urban areas, large towns and cities no longer have time to find their way into a kitchen to fix themselves a homemade meal.

People are enslaved to eating out and the grub lifestyle due to their hectic schedules. Everybody is fighting to make an extra coin and in the process we tend to forget that nutrition is actually the most important aspect in living healthy. In the end, many actually do succeed in making that pile of money but few do live long enough to enjoy it. Why? Because we are all absorbed in this way of life that we actually forget to nourish the same bodies' that we tire. If only we could be as keen on watching our nutrition as we do our finances!.

Water is a basic part of us. One can go long enough without food but not without water. The human circulatory system itself has a component called plasma which is made of over 90% water. Many at times the homes we live in have tap water. Rarely do we know the sources of the water we drink or what processing it undergoes before it gets to our taps. Or even how clean it is. Talk of ignorance! Tap water is treated in large tanks with large quantities of chemicals so as to kill bacteria and viruses that are unseen to the normal eye and which are also harmful to our health.

Chlorine, Fluoride, Calcium Hydroxide, and other salts are just a few of the components of the water we use. We often forget to question the routes and pipes the water passes through to get to our taps. Those pipes are centuries old and most probably bear more contaminants than we could know. Same thing applies to the fast foods we partake. They are extremely processed and spiced, too oily and overcooked. Everybody is in the business for the money.

It is really important to be responsible for your own health and if at all you have to eat unhealthy, make a habit of getting a detox every often. This helps your body eliminate toxic wastes and leaves you feeling healthier and rejuvenated. One can choose to detox by using pills or natural detox. Natural food detox mainly involves cutting down on oils, caffeine, sugars and alcohol. Always make sure to maintain hydration and up your water consumption levels. Cut out on processed foods and take-outs. Avoid eating in restaurants because you are never sure of how your food is prepared. Exercise often as this helps you sweat. Sweating helps the body release toxic wastes and salts. Completely eliminate or cut down totally on sugar, caffeine and alcohol as these play a huge role in adding toxic substances and unnecessary fats to our systems. Add more fiber and vegetables to your diet. Fiber actually gives your gut exercise and keeps it active in function. Most importantly, get enough sleep as this helps your brain coordinate well with your body systems and functions.

Detox pills on the other hand, are used by many to help them shed off weight. This gets tricky since once you are off them chances are high that one will regain their weight. The difference between detox pills and natural food detox is that the pills are unreliable. Detox pills are also costly as they could need supplements.They are also low in calories and nutrients and they leave one feeling hungry and weak. Pills work by holding back toxins in your body instead of flushing them out.

How Important Is Detox to Our Bodies?

Good health, as is well known goes hand in hand with nutrition. What we consume daily can either make or break our bodies' and their functions. Most of what we ingest ranging from food and water are provided by unknown sources. This is due to the unhealthy and busy lifestyles we lead nowadays. Most of those who live in urban areas, large towns and cities no longer have time to find their way into a kitchen to fix themselves a homemade meal.
People are enslaved to eating out and the grub lifestyle due to their hectic schedules. Everybody is fighting to make an extra coin and in the process we tend to forget that nutrition is actually the most important aspect in living healthy. In the end, many actually do succeed in making that pile of money but few do live long enough to enjoy it. Why? Because we are all absorbed in this way of life that we actually forget to nourish the same bodies' that we tire. If only we could be as keen on watching our nutrition as we do our finances!.
Water is a basic part of us. One can go long enough without food but not without water. The human circulatory system itself has a component called plasma which is made of over 90% water. Many at times the homes we live in have tap water. Rarely do we know the sources of the water we drink or what processing it undergoes before it gets to our taps. Or even how clean it is. Talk of ignorance! Tap water is treated in large tanks with large quantities of chemicals so as to kill bacteria and viruses that are unseen to the normal eye and which are also harmful to our health.
Chlorine, Fluoride, Calcium Hydroxide, and other salts are just a few of the components of the water we use. We often forget to question the routes and pipes the water passes through to get to our taps. Those pipes are centuries old and most probably bear more contaminants than we could know. Same thing applies to the fast foods we partake. They are extremely processed and spiced, too oily and overcooked. Everybody is in the business for the money.
It is really important to be responsible for your own health and if at all you have to eat unhealthy, make a habit of getting a detox every often. This helps your body eliminate toxic wastes and leaves you feeling healthier and rejuvenated. One can choose to detox by using pills or natural detox. Natural food detox mainly involves cutting down on oils, caffeine, sugars and alcohol. Always make sure to maintain hydration and up your water consumption levels. Cut out on processed foods and take-outs. Avoid eating in restaurants because you are never sure of how your food is prepared. Exercise often as this helps you sweat. Sweating helps the body release toxic wastes and salts. Completely eliminate or cut down totally on sugar, caffeine and alcohol as these play a huge role in adding toxic substances and unnecessary fats to our systems. Add more fiber and vegetables to your diet. Fiber actually gives your gut exercise and keeps it active in function. Most importantly, get enough sleep as this helps your brain coordinate well with your body systems and functions.
Detox pills on the other hand, are used by many to help them shed off weight. This gets tricky since once you are off them chances are high that one will regain their weight. The difference between detox pills and natural food detox is that the pills are unreliable. Detox pills are also costly as they could need supplements.They are also low in calories and nutrients and they leave one feeling hungry and weak. Pills work by holding back toxins in your body instead of flushing them out.
Unlike pills, natural food detox can be used anytime and can fall in easily into ones lifestyle and routine. Using detox pills is more like adding toxins to your body and it is quite hard to exercise since your body is doing twice its' work and receiving less. A natural detox will guarantee one better and more satisfying results in the long run

An Offence That Didn't Happen

For the most part, on Cam Ranh Bay we never had any drills: nights, mornings, forenoon, evenings, none at all. We drove here and there, now and then for rifle practice, everyone sooner or later had guard duty; some of us visited village girls, and in-between drank and smoked ourselves to a frenzy, or virtually dead state: one or the other; and by and by had ourselves a youthful good time, and by and large, had honestly good meals: then back to our regular duties, happy and content like a Minnesota Prized Hog, at the State Fair. And to add to that, one might say, for the longest time life in a war zone was idly delicious, per near perfect, even movies on bed sheet held tight against our wooden outside wall, a part of our dayroom, or lounge where we usually could find a can of warm beer after duty hours: hence, the sheet was stretching across the wall, and we saw the latest movies, at 611th Ordnance Company. There was little to mar it.

Then came the alarm one day. It was reported, no, more like rumored that Charlie, the enemy was advancing on us, here at Cam Ranh Bay, in all directions; from the surrounding hills, - digging in for an offence. The result was near panic among us, an all encompass concentration.

It was by far, a rude awakening from our pleasant day, every day trance like tranquility.

The rumor was not definite, nothing concrete; so we didn't know what to anticipate, where to retreat to if we had to retreat, all that was certain was, the South China Sea was on one side of us, and in a horseshoe shape, the inland peninsula surround us on the other side. Consequently, we were sitting ducks-so was our circumstances; but we all tried to maintain an attitude of laisser-faire, to put up a front of not yielding to the unknown.

And so the captain, Captain Rosenboum, yielded the point and called a counsel of war, for one and all, all being 160-soldiers in or Ordnance Company.

The question was: do we fight or retreat, which is more like running. Nobody appeared to have even a guess to offer, but the Captain.

He explained in a few chosen, and well selected words, calm and slow: "Insomuch as Charlie approaching us in the hillside, in fox holes only big enough to breathe out of, we know he is there, but will he attack in force?"

And we all looked at one another, our course was simple, there was no direction to go in-; the Captain's face how true this was. It was now decided that we would stand our ground, right here, never fall back because, back was into the sea, although we had ships out there, somewhere, wherever.

And so our rifles and our magazines were full of ammunition and were within a hand's reach; close to that anyways.

The hills were rough and hilly and rocky, with lots of foliage. And into them the night always grew very dark, and rain began to fall. So surely if they were to attack it would be burdensome, if not troublesome, struggling and stomping along the narrow muddy pathways in the dark to get to us; and we all slept with our arms and legs ready to jump up and out of bed to the muddy slop in front of our campsite; of course, we were half drunk, or if not drunk, missed up by dope of some kind. And there was among voices dismal to hear and take part in, low voices. And the enemy maybe coming at any moment. And so the growling and complaining continued night after night, unabated.

An Old Traveler's Ways (an Essay)

These nights are a hundred years long for me, perhaps for any old travelers accustomed to being on the road, or in the sky. I lay awake and miserable till that hour every night arrives that I must be put to sleep; and grow older and more rickety waiting through the silent, stone-still hours of the night, forever and a day waiting and waiting, as the clock-strikes each hour, on the hour, to fall to sleep.

This is no life for old seasoned men like me of travel.

It was four years ago now, when I last traveled, when at last it was with something very like joy that I could afford to put the enemy to rest, and get on track again and travel, that year I went to Cape Horn (Chile), and Argentina, and then to Israel, with a new kind of birth of the old warrior spirit in me; it all sprang out of me like I was in the line of battle, back in Vietnam, back in '71.

This kind of thing sounds odd to many, and perhaps impossible to some, to travel at will, I have done it all my life, but there is no surprise in it for me when it comes around, at the time. On the contrary, it is a perfectly natural thing to do, for me.

I have traveled to fifty-six countries. It is-so I feel, quite within the probabilities of most people I know to do this, if indeed, they put heart and soul, and one third of their bank account money into it. And I figured it out early in life, it didn't take a lot of money to travel, I was a modest-salaried person, professional later in my life, it takes some savings that is all, and the act of letting go of those savings, and planning.

I'm from Minnesota, a Midwestern boy. Often times when I travel, have traveled, as to India, or Egypt, or some far-off destination like Iceland, the first hours upon arrival, if not the first full day, my inners get a deep woodsy stillness, it nearly overcomes me: it is a kind of an excitement, strong enough to enable me to mark a destination and go directly to it, as in Egypt, I went right to the Pyramids when I got off the plane. As when I went to Lisbon in 1998 for the World's Fair, within three hours off the plane I was walking the grounds of the Fair. The first time I was in Paris I hardly knew what I was doing, I spent $240-dollars on taxies in 24-hours, back in 1997. I was dazed with excitement, hardly audible the first hours, when directing the taxi to where I wanted to go. My first time in Rome, it was an uncanny kind of excitement; late night smells, dim lights cafes, restaurants; afternoon heat, all rising and pervading.

When you travel alone, everyone seemingly has a reproachful look, shadowy eyes, but it is not really so, people are just people and most folks never did me any harm. Even though a few tried in China, and Greece, and Germany, and Spain and Lisbon.

A Long Monstrous Sleep (1960)

The sun was down some when we reached the fairgrounds, Lamoure and I, it was after five o'clock. We laid there in the grass behind the iron fence, and a building, the building somewhat hiding us, in the cool shade, it had been a hot day, and we had both told our parents we were staying over at each other's home, and taken off to find a new adventure, and so here we were, snug as a bug, in the fairgrounds, camping out, thinking of things, and getting rested for the night, and rather at ease and satisfied.

I could see the sun going down at the other end of the fairgrounds, looking through an opening in the branches and leaves of a nearby tree, while laying on my back, and the moon fading into sight, with its gloomy gray interior.

There were arc lights from the streets that spiffed light through the iron bar fence, and down and across our faces, somewhat breaking up as it bartered its way around the fence's open spaces. And from somewhere came a little breeze. A couple of gray doves, were perched on a branch of a tree nearby, jabbering as if in trying to settle a dispute.

I was potently sluggish, tired and for the most part lazy, and comfortable-I didn't want to move from this spot. Didn't want to get up. Well, after a half hour of this laziness and Lamoure and I talking about this and that eating some beef-jerky and drinking some water from my canteen, Lamoure dozing off, we both thought we hear something, "Perhaps a bum!" I said to him. He stirs some, rouses up and looks about. A moment later, I hear it again, and Lamoure looks down the street some, towards the midway area, we're both smoking Camel cigarettes. He looks at me as if he knows what the matter is now.

"Police!" he said.

Well I knew, no police came into the fairgrounds, it had to be the grounds man I figured.

I could see his white shirt, as I tried to sit upright, to greet him. So I sat there cross-legged and waited. Thinking how it always happens, adults come around once you get comfortable, and spoil your fun. I knew he'd chase us out. But I had a good enough time I figured up to now, and just seeing him coming quicksilver trying to figure out how he was going handle this, that is, to chase us out of here, was worth the wait, I was too tired to run, and I suppose that's what he expected.

So, says I, when he got a few feet in front of me, and Lamoure standing up looking awkward as a jaybird trying to find his nest, "I suppose we got to leave?"

"Yup, but what in tarnation are you doing here in the first place?" He asked, in a rather friendly tone.

I changed to a more humble posture, thinking maybe we're in luck, he'll let us sleep here for the night, so I says, "We're just camping out, and we're not going to disturbed anyone!"

He wasn't very well satisfied with that, and there wasn't any doubt in his face now, we were leaving. And we left.

With our canteen, and jackets, and a blanket, we trekked down alongside, outside, the fairgrounds fence, it must have been a mile, and a few past that, we were per near five miles from home. I was pretty hungry, but it weren't going to do for me to start complaining, neither one of us had any money, just a pack of smokes between us. Then when we got down a ways, by the University Farms, it was pretty late, and we found a carrot garden, and we didn't lose no time, we pulled a half dozen of those carrots from their roots, we went and looked for a place to sit down, found an old log, at the edge of the garden, looked out across the field, the sky looked black as driftwood, the stars twinkling, like little lanterns, then wiped those carrots clean and ate them as if they were T-bone steaks.