Liver Flush & Cleansing Diet
The following diet is recommended to help jump start any weight loss program, liver/gall bladder detoxification program or as part of any regular cleanse.
Breakfast Cocktail:
• 3 tablespoons cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil
• 1-2 cloves fresh organic garlic
• juice of 1 organic lemon
• juice of 1 organic orange
Mix the above ingredients in a blender and drink for breakfast. If you don’t have a blender, chop the garlic finely and stir the mixture, or shake the ingredients in a closed jar. In this case, it is best to chew the garlic bits before swallowing.
Herbal tea: Half an hour to an hour after drinking the cocktail, follow up with two cups of warm herbal tea. Suggested teas include: peppermint, comfrey leaf, fenugreek seed, roasted dandelion root or ginger root. Teas may be taken alone or in combinations. DO NOT SWEETEN TEAS.
Brunch: Have a fruit meal early in the day. The fruit should be organic and fresh. Examples of recommended fruits include: grapefruits, oranges, apples, pears, grapes, papayas, melons, raspberries, blueberries, or any fruit in season. Eat fruits alone or combine similar fruits into fruit salads. For example, do not combine acidic fruits with sweet fruits. Eat all melons alone. Be sure to rinse fruits thoroughly. Do not add dressings or sweeteners.
Lunch & Dinner: Eat fresh vegetables and sprouts, cooked and/or raw. For example, have a salad for one meal with loose-leaf lettuce, sprouts, chopped spinach, green onions, grated carrots, celery, and/or other vegetables. Use a homemade oil-lemon or oil-vinegar dressing. Another meal might be steamed vegetables. Mix several vegetables together, starting with the slower-cooking vegetables. Vegetable soups would be good. A small amount of cold-pressed oil (olive, flax, hemp) over the vegetables is fine. Be sure to include a variety of vegetables such as broccoli, carrots, beets, asparagus, spinach, cauliflower, green beans, etc.
AVOID THE FOLLOWING FOOD WHILE ON THIS DIET:
All meats and seafood, eggs, dairy foods, bread and flour products, sugar, honey, or other sweeteners, peanuts, nuts and nut butters, cooked grains and fried foods. Foods to shy away from while on this diet include potatoes, bananas, and fruit juices (in excess of a small glass).
Occasionally (once or twice a week) it is all right to have some unsweetened yogurt with a fruit salad or a cooked grain with a vegetable meal. Eat as much as you like of the foods in this diet and be sure to drink plenty of bottled water (preferably from a glass bottle).