Halloween detox in 5 easy steps
After a night of gathering candy, there are ways to rebuild your body once the sugar rush is over.
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Halloween detox in 5 easy stepsAfter a night of gathering candy, there are ways to rebuild your body once the sugar rush is over.By Kimi HarrisTue, Nov 01 2011 at 2:15 PM EST
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We all know that Halloween is celebrated with plenty of candy and sweets. While it can be fun to indulge in caramel apples, candy bars and suckers, you may feel sluggish afterwards. As your kids continue to sort through their loot, you can create a Halloween detox plan (unbeknownst to them) to help pump them with nutrition after all of those sweet, but empty calories.
The following tips are not meant to lead your family to a serious detox diet; rather these tips will work to rebuild and replenish the body after all those sweets.
Tip 1: Serve and eat plenty of protein. If you experienced sugar highs and lows after eating candy, protein will help stabilize your system. Protein also helps your mood, partly by giving your body the building blocks (that is, amino acids) it needs to rebuild. Plan on eating high-quality protein three times a day.
Tip 2: Eat healthy fats. Yes, some fats are healthy! I eat traditional healthy fats, like coconut oil, grassfed butter and extra virgin olive oil. Fats help make you feel satisfied, so you don't feel the need to reach for the candy jar. Fats also help stabilize your blood sugar.
Tip 3: Eat lots of vegetables and some fruit. All of those refined sweets are hard on your blood sugar, and they also use up minerals in your body to process them, according to Sally Fallon in Nourishing Traditions. Eating plenty of produce will get your mineral intake back on track. Fruits are delicious as well as nutritious, but after all of those sweets, concentrate on vegetables, which have very little natural sugar in them.
Tip 4: When I feel especially behind, I love drinking vegetable juice because I own a juicer. It helps me regain my energy when I have the sugar "blahs." As nice as it is to use a juicer, you could certainly use this method of juicing with a blender.
Tip 5: Healthy soups are a great way to get a lot of vegetables and mineral-rich homemade chicken broth into your family. Popular ones in my family include this Simple Chicken Noodle Soup and Creamless Creamy Zucchini Soup.
So how does that translate into a daily menu? Here is one example of a simple sample menu using traditional ingredients.
Sample menu
Upon rising: Drink a big glass of filtered water with fresh lemon juice in it to help get hydrated. You can also start the day with a freshly made vegetable juice. Wait 30 minutes before eating breakfast.
Breakfast: Oatmeal served with grassfed butter and real maple syrup. Serve Apple Chicken Sausage on the side.
Lunch: Simple Chicken Noodle Soup with toast and a green side salad.
Dinner: Roasted Chicken served with brown rice, steamed broccoli and Avocado, Bacon and Egg salad.
Snack ideas: An afternoon vegetable juice, carrot and celery sticks, hard boiled eggs, or fresh fruit.
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Cierra Riley
11/07/2011 09:42 AM
Thats a great idea and I love how you put in perspective i.e. the food timeline lol
Enter your name
11/06/2011 14:13 PM
This article was clearly not written by a Registered Dietitian.
Anonymous
11/06/2011 20:53 PM
That is why it is such a good article!! We all need to eat this way..no more obesity and a much healthier country!!
ks
11/06/2011 10:16 AM
12 and even older kids should trickortreat because It's good clean fun and a chance to be and act like the kid they still are!
LG
11/05/2011 11:07 AM
Why do kids older than age 12 go trick-or-treating? And why are adults indulging in Halloween candy?
Anonymous
11/05/2011 19:58 PM
Because You sound like an absolute kill joy.
Jo
11/05/2011 10:45 AM
Sample diet with chicken for breakfast, lunch and dinner?? I thought one of the keys to healthy eating was to eat a variety of foods.
Duh
11/04/2011 16:05 PM
Um, does it say 'DIABETIC' Halloween detox in 5 days? Seriously dumb?
Enter your name
11/04/2011 14:25 PM
Grassfed butter? Whatever.
Anonymous
11/04/2011 16:01 PM
Means the cattle the milk was derived from were grass fed instead of the mash pellets or other processed feeds ( which are often not vegetarian like a normal bovines diet.) It produces a better milk, lower in bad cholesterol. In India the cooking oil of choice is Ghee made from rendered butter. Readily available at any ethnic food supply and takes high temperatures well, provides a subtle flavor and has a nominal effect on fat stores in the body. Think about it, even in America how many.... More
Duh Novel1!
11/04/2011 12:56 PM
Why would diet conscious diabetics need to detox from binging on candy after Halloween? I'd say those who do have much more to worry about than the daily menu suggestions. Based on the title alone, this article OBVIOUSLY was not directed toward a diabetic diet. Take your indignance elsewhere.
Novel1
11/04/2011 12:38 PM
Apparently you do not take into account the needs of Diabetics when making such menu suggestions... none of this would work for us
Anonymous
11/06/2011 20:48 PM
This a a great diet for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics, plenty of protein, fruit and vegtables. I have been a mother of a type 1 diabetic for over 8 years and when we eat like this, her blood sugars are in great range!
Anonymous
11/06/2011 15:45 PM
If you would eat like this you wouldn't have the disease! The medical money machine does not want to help peopel manage their own diabetes... go ahead and eat sugar and carbs and have fun sticking yourself with insulin every day. Theis country is hopeless when it comes to healthy living... big pharma will take care of you
Anonymous
11/04/2011 21:44 PM
and when would diabetics need a detox from a binge on candy? they would need a hospital!!
B Jackson
11/01/2011 17:45 PM
Love this! and perfect timing....I was 2 Milky Ways away from losing it.....
Heidi
11/01/2011 15:12 PM
I woke up in the wee hours of the morning with a PIERCING headache, from all the sugar, I presume. I quickly applied essential oils - and poof! It was gone! Never eating sugar again.
Anonymous
11/06/2011 08:02 AM
you know there's sugar in fruits and some vegetables... and starch is basically sugar's cousin (i.e. rice, pasta, bread, etc.)
Anonymous
11/04/2011 12:24 PM
No sugar, ever? Good way to die I guess. Add your commentSign in with one of these accounts or just add your comment below. |
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