Linda Page - Healthy Healing’s Detoxification

Following a healthy detoxification program a few times a year is one of the best ways to stay well in the modern world. Every day, Americans are exposed to synthetic, often toxic chemicals on an unprecedented scale. Industrial chemicals and their pollutant run-offs in our water, pesticides, food additives, heavy metals, drug residues, and environmental hormones are trapped within the human body in greater concentrations than at any other point in history. More than 25,000 new toxins enter our environment each year.

We are all affected by the environmental toxins and stresses present in our world, and we all make unhealthy life choices now and again. Over periods of time, the toxic burden catches up to us. A detox program helps clean out the chemical toxins, drug residues, and collected waste matter trapped in our bodies.

Healthy Healings Detoxification highlights the critical importance of body cleansing in todays world. However, detoxification should not be undertaken haphazardly. Dr. Linda Page, Americas foremost expert on natural health, offers safe body cleansing choices for anyone who is interested in living a healthier life.

- Ellen Tart-Jensen, Ph.D., D.Sc., author of Health is Your Birthright: How to Create the Health You Deserve.

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- Patricia Bragg, N.D., Ph.D., health pioneer and author of Bragg Vegetarian Health Recipes.

Healthy Healing, 12th edition

In its first edition nearly 20 years ago, this book was the only one of its kind. Constantly updated and expanded, Healthy Healing is still the easiest to use bestselling natural health reference book on the market. Customize your own personal healing program using natural therapies for more than 300 ailments through diet, whole herb supplements and exercise. 12th Edition, 664 Pages, Illustrated, 1884334-92-X SRP: $32.95 Spiral Bound Edition - 1884334-93-8 SRP: $35.95

Diets for Healthy Healing

Food is powerful medicine. Sometimes its your best medicine even for difficult diseases. Dr. Linda Page, Americas foremost nutrition and herb expert, has worked with this healing principle for over two decades and has written this book as your primary guide to using food as your best medicine. 1st Edition, 256 Pages, Illustrated, 1884334-83-0 SRP: $18.95

Healthy Healings Herbal Pharmacist

Herbs may be our most powerful 21st Century Medicines. Learn how to use whole herbs to heal your whole body. Features whole herb healing programs for over 150 ailments! 3rd Edition, 256 Pages, Illustrated, 8 1/2 x 11 SRP: $18.95

Do You Want to Have a Baby? by Sarah Abernathy and Dr. Linda Page

Millions of Americans struggle with fertility problems. Most can overcome them with simple lifestyle changes and natural therapies. Written by two experts in the field of natural health, this book covers optimal nutrition for conception, the best fertility-enhancing supplements, and the documented success of bodywork therapies. 1st Edition, 176 Pages, Illustrated 1884334-39-3 SRP: $14.95

This book is dedicated to all those who are on the journey to renewed health through the ancient practice of body purification.

LINDA PAGE, Ph.D.,

Traditional Naturopath

This reference is to be used for educational information. It is not a claim for cure or mitigation of disease, but rather an adjunctive approach, supplying individual nutritional needs that otherwise might be lacking in todays lifestyle.

First Digital Edition, December 2012

First Edition, September 2008

Copyright September 2008 by Linda Page. Published by Healthy Healing Enterprises LLC

www.HealthyHealing.com

Cover and book design by Michael Kohler

ISBN 1-884334-56-3

EAN13 9781884334566

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Our bodies do it naturally every day. Detoxification is a normal body process of eliminating or neutralizing toxins through the colon, liver, kidneys, lungs, lymph and skin. In fact, internal detoxification is one of our bodys most basic automatic functions. Just as our hearts beat nonstop and our lungs breathe continuously, so our metabolic processes continuously dispose of accumulated toxic matter. But in our world today, body systems and organs that were once capable of cleaning out unwanted substances are now completely overloaded; thus many unwanted substances stay in our tissues. Our bodies try to protect us from dangerous material by setting it aside, surrounding it with mucous or fat so it wont cause imbalance or trigger an immune reaction. (Your body stores foreign substances in its fatty depositsa significant reason to keep your diet and body fat low. Some people carry around up to 15 extra pounds of mucous that harbors this waste!)

Ideally, we should live in a pollution-free environment, eat untainted foods and drink pure water. But, since humans are born with a self-cleaning system, we know this has probably never been possible. Today, it isnt even practical, so the next best thing is to keep pollutants to a minimum and to periodically get rid of them through a detoxification program.

Detoxification through special cleansing diets may be the missing link to disease prevention, especially for immune-compromised diseases like cancer, arthritis, diabetes and fatigue syndromes like candida albicans. Naturopaths have used detoxification therapies to achieve health and wellness for over 100 years! In Europe, detoxification has long been an integral part of the flourishing spa industry. Our chemicalized-food diet, with too much animal protein, too much fat, too much caffeine and alcohol radically alters our internal ecosystems. Research shows that about 20% of the U.S. food supply is contaminated by toxic pesticide residues, and Americans have up to 68 exposures to these substances every day! Further, the average person consumes over 4 pounds of food additives a year! Even if your diet is good, a cleanse can restore immune strength against toxins that pave the way for disease-bearing bacteria, viruses and parasites.

A detox program aims to remove the cause of disease before we ever get sick. Its a time-honored way to keep immune response high, elimination regular, circulation sound, and stress under control, so your body can handle the daily toxins it encounters. In the past, detoxification was used either clinically for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts, or individually, as a once-a-year mild spring cleaning for general health maintenance. Today, a regular detox program two or three times a year makes a big difference not only for health, but for the quality of our lives.