First detox tip for the summer holidays: Drink water!
Lazy transit when traveling: Drink half a bottle of magnesium Hepar upon waking.
Patron as soon as you change power: Select Arvie or Badoit for their bicarbonates.
Sporty: Drink before you are thirsty (Eau de Queyzac, Volvic, Vichy St-Yorre), because amputating your water reserves by 2% is enough to provoke pumping. Specifically: 20% less heat and an increased risk of cramps and tendonitis.
Detox program for the summer holidays: take the time to eat!
"Lose weight or stabilize it chewing cheerfully our meals," is the advice of nutritionist Arnaud Cocaul in his latest installment, "chewing diet" (eds Thierry Souccar): "Choose dense foods, farms, the least processed possible because, depending on the texture of what you swallow, you get fatter or not: in fact, at equal calories, slack and small-sized foods (pasta, bread, rice, couscous ...) make you fatter than The reason: we forget the chewing, yet essential to install satiation and trigger digestion via saliva secretions.In addition, these foods disrupt the signals of satiety, which need 20 minutes to set up . "
The principles : Choose foods with high masticatory index (MI): raw vegetables (at least two portions per day); leavened bread rather than baker's yeast; pasta and rice al dente, legumes (even if their size allows them to swallow "all round", like lentils, chew them). All meats have a high IM, except for chopped steak, sausage meat and other stuffings. Prefer the ham to cooked.
In the delicacies department, yes to only dry biscuits.
Among the fruits, bet on pineapple, orange and granny apple. Pair them with dried fruits: almonds (a handful a day), walnuts, apricots ...
Do not forget to put your cutlery every three bites to slow down.
Detox smoothie recipes for a healthy summer
Delicious, they have virtues à la carte. To mix with the blender:
- Passport life in pink
1/2 l almond milk 3 walnuts 1 banana 2 tbsp. to s. cocoa the pulp of a vanilla bean
This nectar is a precursor concentrate of serotonin - the neurotransmitter that governs our emotions - magnesium and vitamin B6, one boosting the other.
- Relaxing
1/2 l of soy milk 3 slices of fresh pineapple 1 handful of almonds 2 drops of orange blossom
- energizing
1 orange juice 1 tray of raspberries 2 tbsp. to s. honey 1 tsp. to c. of propolis 1 tsp. to c. of orange blossom 2 Bulgarian yogurts 2 pinches of cinnamon
These anti-aging foods: to use without moderation this summer in your detox program
- Parasol anti-radical
To amber your skin without burning and preventing damage, swallow a shield of carotenoids and vitamins A, C, E, red, orange, dark green and yellow plants. Vitamin A puts a starter to the secretion of melanin, especially when we know that our internal stock flanks 15% each decade. The right daily dosage: 4 apricots or 3 broccoli flowers or 2 carrots or 1 half-mango or 1 half-melon or 1 guava or 1 half-red pepper. Eat them fresh (antioxidants in the fridge) and if possible with the skin.
- Pulp effect
Tomato lycopenes nourish and densify the collagen fibers. Result: a velvety peach and firm edges. To consume cooked with a trickle of oil, because the hot lipids boost its virtues.
- Co-drivers of your sunglasses
Vegetables and fruits blue, violet and dark red (aubergine, blueberry, blackcurrant, raspberry, plum, grape), as well as spinach, sorrel and egg yolk. Their flavonoids protect the eyes from opacification of the lens, which can evolve into cataracts, and the zeaxanthin-lutein duo protects the retina.
Detox program: our tips for sleeping well
Most of our hormones readjust their reserves during the slow deep sleep phase, hence the importance of drawing a first class flight plan.
- Zero wave chamber
At the hotel or in the rental house, exit any arsenal geek-electronic-video stuffed with parasitic cables, especially near the bed. The magnetic fields of the devices blur the sleep. In the hour before bedtime, do not put your laptop directly on your comforter or on your legs, even if you are sitting on the couch: " The live devices generate an electrostress that keeps you, too, under tension, "decrypts psychotherapist Christine Sarah Carstensen , author of" Zen in the blink of an eye "(First ed.).
Zap the mirrors: they think like a boomerang the negative emotions that the sleeper gets rid of during sleep, according to feng shui.
- Fragrances doudous
Breathe deeply for 3 to 5 min two drops of essential oil placed on a tissue.
l Wave to the nocturnal soul: ylang-ylang.
l Stress keeps you awake: basil.
Anxious, you come back: bergamot.
Insomnia due to nervousness: lavender.
With each inspiration, feel the perfume flood you, follow its diffusion in your nostrils, in your head and your body. Conversely, when exhaling, materialize your breath as to drive out tiredness, annoyances and tensions of the day.
- In emergency SOS Rescue Night
Composed of six essences of Bach flowers with relaxing virtues (clematis, white chestnut, helianthème ...): 2 sprays of oral spray or 4 drops in a glass of water. In pharmacy.
- Warm immersion
Have you noticed that on long-haul flights, it's cooler when the cabin is in the dark? The crew reduces the temperature for you to sleep. Same process in the shower or in the bath, the freshness sends the starter of falling asleep.
- The good night plate
Plants cooked at dinner, more digestible than raw wines, facilitate intestinal work. Add " slow carbohydrates (rice, pasta, potato, bread), which allow better physiological regulation throughout the night and optimize, in fact, sleep, " says Professor Joel Paquereau, president of the Institute National Sleep and Vigilance (Insv).
Tips for a journey without fatigue and stress
Before / after: the best tricks of globe-trotters:
Zero motion sickness (car, boat, plane): The ginger rhizome is an anti-nausea 100% green without any drowsiness to the key, so effective that NASA prescribes to its astronauts. On the eve of D-Day and half an hour before departure, swallow two phyto capsules with a glass of water.
Anti-Jet Lag Passport : To ride time zones without disrupting your biological rhythms and recovering great V speed, play sports. From the whole body, muscles are the first to set their record straight. They will therefore coach the resynchronization of internal clocks. Provided you move early in the morning. The process ? Between the rise in body temperature and the release of certain hormones, muscle activity deceives the genes specific to circadian rhythms. Those who are supposed to stay on stand-by - car based on your departure schedule - take action earlier than planned.
Anti-swelling of the legs : Three weeks before, adopt the good veinotonic agents of the circulation which reinforce the walls of the vessels and prevent the heaviness in the legs: red vine, butcher's broom, sweetclover, horse chestnut, ginkgo biloba. In capsules or beverage of herbal medicine. On the day, swallow 100 to 200 mg of aspirin to thin the blood and prevent the risk of venous thrombosis (unless personal medical contraindication). Put on compression stockings (reimbursed by prescription): "They intensify the circulatory speed and reduce the risk of edema by preventing water from escaping to the tissues," says anemologist Michèle Cazaubon.
Drink plenty: at least 1 l of water in 4 hours. Walk every two hours and flex-rotate with the ankles.
Detox program for this summer: get hold of yourself and just be happy
A relaxation by the minute
" Looking at the stars or closing the eyes, inhale by swelling the belly and then the chest, then slowly exhale a thin stream of air. If you had a candle flame in front of you, it should not go out, "says psychotherapist Christine Sarah Carstensen . With each prolonged exhalation, feel your muscles relax and your body to calm down. The more you blow slowly, the deeper the relaxation. Renew seven times.
Love and sex
Making love or exchanging passionate strokes releases morphine naturally produced by the body - the endorphins - as well as oxytocin, to which one owes the well-being after hugging. It is also the latter that makes the brain "in love", which makes the libido waver and promotes attachment to your other half. How? Oxytocin interferes with the reward and pleasure circuits of the brain, taking the same path as a drug.
Anti-fatigue detox program to set up this summer
Stimulating tips collected around the world.
Siberian : Eleutherococcus is a weedy cousin of quackgrass on which the ice of the tundra has no impact. The "it" for those who arrive on vacation leached. This kind of physical-psychological ointment sweeps stress and fatigue while distilling serenity. In phyto capsules or extract to be diluted (1 to 3 drops) in a fruit juice.
Russian : The Tsarines loved horse milk, which shark at full speed. The forty nutrients it contains are very close to those of breast milk, less lipids. In tablets, in cure of 3 to 4 weeks. For its coconut flavor, organic mare milk from the SuperDiet lab.
Japanese style : Shiitake, a mushroom that boosts the immune system, is the "must-eat" of the centenarians of the Okinawa archipelago. In phyto capsules.
The detox cure that drains and boosts for this summer
Objective: to unclog the filters of the body (liver, skin, kidneys, lungs) from pollution, pesticides and free radicals to restore the traffic of our energy highways.
For a week : Organic clay cure . It acts as a toxin blotter, which it evacuates by natural means. To drink on awakening, but to prepare in the evening. Dilute a tablespoon of clay powder (in health food stores) in a glass of spring water. Stir with a wooden spoon and let stand overnight. In the morning, drink the water over the clay deposit.
For 10 days : Cure black radish with a glass of birch juice in the morning, salt crunch, starter, lunch. During the day: depurative infusions, iced or warm dandelion, artichoke, boldo and / or ash.
All summer : Sweat while moving, but also with strawberries and raspberries. They promote the drainage of uric acid and toxic residues. Their richness in vitamin C gum, as a bonus, the blows of fatigue. Panache with melon, diuretic and laxative.
