Harrison Lauren - Clear skin detox diet : a revolutionary plan to heal your skin from the inside out

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NOTE TO READERS: This book has been written and published strictly for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to serve as medical advice or to be any form of medical treatment. You should always consult with your physician before altering or changing any aspect of your medical treatment. Do not stop or change any prescription medications without the guidance and advice of your physician. Any use of the information in this book is made on the readers good judgment and is the readers sole responsibility. This book is not intended to diagnose or treat any medical condition and is not a substitute for a physician.

To Marsha, Brookie, and Kristen, the best mother, sister, and friend a girl could ask for.

Thank you for loving me always, despite distance, diets, and my crazy forever quest for the truth.

Contents

Hello, my beautiful readers! I could not be more excited to welcome you. These pages were created to guide you in discovering the youthful and radiant skin and complexion you desire.

In order for you to fully understand how to achieve both short-term results and long-term success, start by reading for background information.

In the appendix you will find additional invaluable tools to help you grocery shop and dine out, as well as a quick reference guide for all your basic needs.

May this labor of love serve you well. You deserve to know the truth about beauty.

You were created to shine!

With thousands of new beauty products hitting the shelves each year, it is no wonder that the beauty industry is one of the most profitable and crowded markets.

Products range in price as well as promiseluring us to buy into the idea of perfection in a bottle, suggesting that we can erase time and aging and cure all imperfectionsunder-eye circles, lines, blemishes, and various disorders of the skinwith the latest concoction or treatment. We continue our current lifestyles and cut costs on our grocery bills, opting for faster and cheaper choices, but splurge on the personal care products that carry empty promises and fake longevity.

Regardless of our expenditures in the beauty department, it is too often that we feel inadequate and unbeautiful, yet hang onto the things keeping us from achieving our goals. As you delve into these pages, the answers will unfold. May you find that what is really holding you back from being your most beautiful self is as simple as the food on your plate.

This book is designed to teach the importance of our dietary choices, how they affect our internal balance, and how we can use food to our advantage and naturally detoxify the body to deliver a beautiful and radiant complexion.

For both rapid and lasting results, I recommend reading this book from beginning to end.

Highlights

Finally discover the beautifying secrets and solutions you have been searching for.

Toss the expensive topical creams and prescriptions.

Understand how your skin can be representative of what is really going on inside your body and what to do about it.

Become empowered with the knowledge you need to get the health, body, and skin you deserve and crave.

Watch as imperfections and signs of premature aging melt away from your skin, your mood elevates, and your body becomes effortlessly slender and tight.

Enjoy delicious and satiating foodsold favorites and newand never have to worry about counting calories, fat grams, or carbohydrates again.

Acknowledge that you deserve to be and feel brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous. Playing small does not serve you, or those around you. Why suffer?

Find that a beautiful you is much easier than you thought.

Your only regret? That you did not come across this knowledge sooner. May this book ignite your passion for natural healing and beauty, and may it make up for the years and time spent wishing you could change what you saw in the mirror.

The skin is the bodys largest organ. Skin is unique in that it not only acts as a shield for our internal organs but also reflects our internal health. For instance, a zit is not merely a clogged pore, but rather the bodys way of explaining that something is not right within.

Until we find ourselves ill, it can be hard to visualize and comprehend the complexity of what is occurring on a regular basis inside the body. The skin is our looking glass. The human body is a beautifully designed powerhouse that has the ability to process the food it is given for nourishment and energy, and eliminate, to the best of its ability, the toxic waste that remains. The skin is one of the bodys main channels to eliminate waste materials and toxins.

Toxic waste is removed from the body in a multitude of ways, including when we sweat, breathe, and go to the bathroom. The skin, in particular, helps us strive for internal health and balance by eliminating both natural and man-made toxins through perspiration. This is why we focus so much on our pores.

The pores, however, are not the issue. The body functions as a whole organism instead of the sum of its parts. What this means is that an imperfect complexion is not the result of poor skin, but rather a much larger issue, or internal imbalance. The outer appearance of the skin is thus brilliantly designed to help us better understand what we cannot see. Poor diet and internal and external stressors can manifest themselves as acne, dermatitis, aging, discoloration, puffiness, and lack of elasticity. Acne, or dermatitis of the skin, for instance, though emotionally debilitating, suggests a much larger problem than just a topical or bacterial issue. Disorders of the skin are the bodys cry for help, and many factors can contribute to a less-than-beautiful complexion. Luckily, you have the power to alter the cards you have been dealt.

Beautiful skin starts on the inside and radiates outward. When we provide the body with more quality foods and substances than those with less nutritional value, the results are astounding. In the following chapters, you will learn how to define quality food.

Food Matters

A youthful, radiant, and clear complexion can only be achieved with optimal diet and digestion. The best foods for skin health, and overall health, are those that are closest to Mother Naturefoods that are whole and unprocessed. Mother Nature never intended for us to require the amount of medication that we have today. In fact, purchasing an over-the-counter pain reliever is about as easy as grabbing a soda, a bag of chips, and a candy bar. Each one of these products will be absorbed into the body and bloodstream, having some sort of effect on the body. Medications, over-the-counter remedies, antacids, prescriptions, and even vitamin supplements can create imbalances in the body by avoiding the root cause of a problem, pain, or discomfort, and masking the symptoms without treating the underlying issue. Although we like to think that we are helping our body or current predicament by swallowing a pill, we have to be aware that anything we add to the body has a reaction, good, bad, or neutral.