Crash Course

Here’s how you can detox your body to look your best for the upcoming festive season.

- Nandini Banerjee

While adopting a holistic and healthy, everyday lifestyle is the ultimate aim, it is often difficult to sustain habits that promote it. In those times, short-term detox diets and exercises can help you get results faster. However, as nutritionist Neelanjana Singh of Delhi-based Heinz Nutrilife Clinic, cautions, “Detox diets only work for a limited time as they tend to deprive the body of some nutrients and the food becomes unbalanced. These should, hence, be tried only once in while. ”

It’s all in the food “When the liver and kidneys function normally, the body detoxes naturally. These organs flush out all the toxins and help cleanse the body so that it functions efficiently. But, sometimes, you need to speed up the process,” says Neelanjana. Out of the plethora of fad and crash diets available today, here are some of the popular, result-oriented ones: 

1 CLEAN EATING

This one could well be the diet you adopt forever. Clean eating doesn’t deprive you of any food group. It is simply about eating whole foods that are minimally processed or refined— like wholewheat bread, oatmeal, wild brown rice and organic vegetables—and, therefore, closest to their true nature. There are many cosmetic benefits too: Glowing skin, shiny hair and strong nails, for instance.

2 JUICE CLEANSE