So, the other day I got an e-mail from my good pal Gwyneth, who recommended a few of her health care practitioners.
This quote is from Dr. Alejandro Junger, a cardiologist who practices integrative healing at the Eleven Wellness Center in New York:
“Approximately eight hours after eating our last meal the processes of digestion, absorption and assimilation are completed and the body enters into detoxification mode, a function we don’t think about often. A healthy body, used to eating natural foods, needs around four hours to cleanse and detoxify itself from all the waste products of normal metabolism. This is without counting the toxic overload of modern life. It’s a really good practice to fast every day for 12 hours after our last meal: eight hours to complete food processing plus four to allow for detoxification. So if your last meal is at 10pm, don’t eat anything before 10am. Breakfast should be exactly that, break-fast, or breaking the fast . . .
. . .In addition to all of the above, one should educate oneself as to how to keep our environment toxin-free. Water and air filters, eco-cleaning utensils, chemical free cosmetics, green architecture, alternative fuel vehicles….”
I found this very interesting, as I am not much interested in eating before 10 am most of the time anyhow.
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