Top 15 Cleansing Foods

Celery and Celery Seeds. Celery and celery seeds are excellent blood cleansers and contain many different anti-cancer compounds that help detoxify cancer cells from the body. Celery seeds contain over twenty anti-inflammatory substances. It is particularly good for detoxifying substances found in cigarette smoke.

Cranberries. Cleanse your body from harmful bacteria and viruses that may be lingering in your urinary tract with cranberries since they contain antibiotic and antiviral substances.

Flaxseeds and Flaxseed Oil. Loaded with essential fatty acids, particularly the Omega-3s, flaxseeds and flaxseed oil are essential for many cleansing functions throughout the body.

Garlic. Eat garlic to cleanse harmful bacteria, intestinal parasites and viruses from your body, especially from the blood and intestines. It also helps cleanse build-up from the arteries and has anti-cancer and antioxidant properties that help detoxify the body of harmful substances. Additionally, garlic assists with cleansing the respiratory tract by expelling mucous build-up in the lungs and sinuses. For the health benefits, choose only fresh garlic, not garlic powder, which has virtually none of the above properties.

Grapefruit. Add a ruby red grapefruit to your breakfast to benefit from pectin fiber that binds to cholesterol, thereby cleansing the blood. Pectin also binds to heavy metals and helps escort them out of the body. It also has antiviral compounds that cleanse harmful viruses out of the body. Grapefruit is an excellent intestinal and liver detoxifier.

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4:52AM PDT on Apr 19, 2013

Thank you for sharing

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Laurel F.

12:12PM PDT on Apr 18, 2013

Very informative! Thanks for sharing!!

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Monica M.

10:27AM PDT on Mar 18, 2013

good ideas

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Mia R.

12:04PM PDT on Mar 16, 2013

Thank you for sharing. I am eating almost all of them, including seeweed.

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Margarita G.

3:17PM PDT on Oct 10, 2012

Wonderful! Thank You!

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Joy W.

5:10AM PDT on Oct 10, 2012

Thanks for all the great info.

Dale O.

8:23AM PDT on Jul 31, 2012

Since most of these are already part of my regular diet it is always good to eat these foods in non toxic organic form, especially for the ones a person can grow at home. Too cold to grow my own lemons and tropical items but some of these are grown locally and organically.