Book Summary: The Beauty Detox Foods by Kimberly Snyder

“The Beauty Detox Foods” book by Kimberly Snyder was a very inspiring read. The author focuses heavily on a vegan lifestyle, but the overarching principle is the importance of having an abundance of greens and plant foods in your diet to enable your body to function optimally and to be your most energetic and beautiful self.

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Important principles from the book:

• Digestion takes more energy than any other internal function of the human body, so by eating ‘beauty detox foods’ you free up this energy from digestion leading to superior health and radiant beauty.
• The high content of minerals, enzymes, and fiber in ‘beauty detox foods’ also help cleanse and unclog waste from your intestines allowing your body to more optimally absorb nutrients.
• Greens are the most important, nutrient-dense food group in your diet, full of alkaline minerals, chlorophyll, and amino acids to regenerate and purify your cells.
• Drink water between meals, NOT at meals. Too much water with your meals will dilute your digestive juices and slow down the digestive process.
• Blending your greens into smoothies “predigests” them freeing up more energy from digestion.
• Increasing fiber is the very important to cleanse your body!
• Sugar destroys your beauty, contributing to wrinkles, stiff joints, weight gain, and several other negative effects in your body.

The connection between food and beauty is incredibly powerful. Just by changing the foods you eat, you can radically change the way you look and feel. -Kimberly Snyder, “The Beauty Detox Foods”

Some favorite “beauty detox foods”:

• Spinach
• Kale
• Avocados
• Nuts and Seeds (Almonds, Walnuts, Flaxseeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Hemp Seeds, Chia Seeds, Sunflower Seeds)
• Cucumbers
• Lemon
• Carrots
• Blueberries
• Bananas
• Asparagus
• Broccoli
• Romain Lettuce
• Parsley
• Sprouts
• Spirulina/Chlorella
• Dulse
• Raw Apple Cider Vinegar
• Radishes
• Nutritional Yeast
• Coconut Oil

In moderation:

• Sweet Potatoes
• Figs
• Pineapple
• Pears
• Apples
• Bee Pollen

One of the most important assets you have in your quest for beauty is energy. Energy is a key factor in your ability to shed weight easily and permanently, achieve great health and look your most beautiful. Energy regenerates your liver and other tissue cells, flushes toxic waste from the body, helps maintain your ideal weight, keeps your skin’s collagen smooth and your hair healthy… -Kimberly Snyder, “The Beauty Detox Foods”