The Beauty Detox Solution
What can you tell us about the new book, The Beauty Detox Solution?
There are a lot of beauty and diet books because our society makes health and beauty seem so confusing! Many programs focus simply on what I call the “surface” evaluations of foods- how many calories, grams of carbs, protein, etc. a food has. And too many women feel like they have to micromanage and count everything they eat in order to look their best. That’s simply not true.
My program focuses on the powerful link between beauty, health and energy. The key is unlocking our Beauty Energy, the potential energy we all have inside us that can rejuvenate skin, reduce wrinkles, melt away pounds and give us newfound energy. A large amount of our energy is spent digesting, and the more energy we spend digesting, the less energy we have to rejuvenate our cells and fight aging. With The Beauty Detox Solution, you can free up this Beauty Energy, so you can use it to create beautiful skin, hair and nails. And you’ll even have the energy to be able to play with your kids at the end of the day or hang out with your friends.
Sure, there are many programs out where you can lose weight- at least for a time. But what’s the good in being a size 4 if you look 10 years older? My program is not only about losing the weight, but having amazing skin, feeling energized and looking younger, too.
How much pressure it there to look good on the red carpet?
There is overwhelming pressure, especially in our world where there are endless blogs, websites and social media where people comment, discuss and scrutinize every aspect of your appearance.
Outer beauty is a reflection of inner health- what are the signs on the outside that we are unhealthy?
Many of us are stuck in this vicious cycle where the food we think is healthy and helping us look our best is actually aging us more. I bet if you opened up your fridge you’d see foods you think are good for you, like low-fat yogurt, free-range chicken, egg whites. But when you look in the mirror in the morning-- and this is especially ladies, before we put on layers of foundation and concealer--you’ll see just how aging these foods really are in the form of dull skin, dark circles, and fine lines and wrinkles you see staring back at you!
The Beauty Detox program encourages a more natural, holistic approach to food. On the program, you’re encouraged to eat an abundance of healthy foods that are easy for the body to digest, freeing up your Beauty Energy to fight the effects of aging and help you lose weight. For instance, increasing evidence shows that the heavy amount of concentrated protein we eat all day long is actually very aging. My clients start to look younger and feel much better just by swapping that egg white omelet in the morning with my Glowing Green Smoothie, a delicious blended drink made with vegetables and fruits which is one of the foundations of my program. It tastes like the sweetness of fruit, and has all the Beauty Minerals you need to rejuvenate every cell in your body and face. It provides a fantastic boost of energy and chock-full of belly-filling fiber to satisfy your hunger, so by 11 am you’re not reaching for another tea with milk or scone to get by.
Anyone can follow my program though and make it work for their lifestyle- vegetarian or omnivore. Most of my clients eat meat, but we replace some of it and pair it in the diet with other foods, specifically.
Foods to help with a healthy glow?
The Glowing Green Smoothie is the absolute best way to start creating glowing skin. In one delicious drink, you get the fuel to not only lose weight, but rejuvenate your skin, fight aging, and increase your energy! It’s so easy, it’s so simple, and it has worked for all my clients, from Hollywood stars to busy moms and schoolteachers. I often work as the nutritionist on different movie sets, and this amazing thing happens when I do: I start making the Glowing Green Smoothie, and the next thing you know, you look around and all the actors and directors and producers are drinking it every day, because they love the way it makes them feel.
Made up of about 70% green vegetables and 30% fruit, the Glowing Green Smoothie helps you eat far more greens than you ordinarily could. But it is not just the quantity of greens that makes the smoothie so amazing—because we blend the greens and fruit for easy digestion, your body is able to absorb more of the vitamins and minerals without working so hard. It gets right to your skin- where you will visibly notice a glow in as little as three days.
Thanks to all its nutrients and fiber, the smoothie is incredibly filling, so it keeps you reaching for all that mid-morning second cup of coffee and more toast that you really didn’t want to eat.
What can help with acne?
The liver filters toxins and usually pushes the waste into the colon. But when these organs become overloaded with waste and toxins, the toxins have to be pushed out through the skin, another eliminative organ, creating spots and blemishes.
If you want to eradicate acne, besides good skin care products you have to eliminate the root cause by minimizing toxicity in your body and maintaining ongoing cleansing of your digestive tract through better dietary choices.
Fried foods, dairy products and processed and refined foods that contain chemicals and preservatives are among the items that are extremely difficult for the body to digest. They end up creating toxic substances that overwhelm the liver and colon- so avoid them.
Add more probiotics and probiotic-rich foods, which can help balance your digestive system and keep it cleansed, digestive aids such as apple cider vinegar, and natural purifying foods with anti-bacterial properties like onions and garlic.
What are foods to help get rid of extra pounds?
Most food programs today are so confusing- count calories, count carbs, count grams of protein. I mean, who wants to bring a calculator to dinner? Being beautiful and our ideal weight is not about micromanaging. My plan is simple- and by following my proven principles you will find your body slimming to its perfect weight, as your beauty radiates from the inside out.
If we want to lose weight we do need to reduce calories in general, but when you follow my general principles that happens naturally, without having to obsess over counting each and every calorie. Here’s why: Calorie counting doesn’t work for the long-term because it doesn’t take into account how a food digests in your body: if it alkaline-forming or acid-forming, whether it is non-processed, contains fiber, etc. When we eat lots of acid-forming foods we create toxicity in the body and tend to hold onto more weight. Alkaline-foods make our body more alkaline, and when our body is more alkaline we are generally more beautiful, healthy and balanced. The truly alkaline foods are fresh fruits and vegetables, which are also loaded with fiber.
By following the program and eating more of the right foods in the right way, you will be increasing your Beauty Energy and intake of Beauty Mineral and flushing toxins that make you hold onto excess weight. The pounds will literally melt away—without counting a single calorie.
Insight from travelling?
Before becoming a clinical nutritionist, I spent three years travelling the world through over 50 countries, visiting every continent but Antarctica. Through my travels, I often visited regions of the world with access to far fewer resources than we have in America, but I noticed something very interesting—the women look much more beautiful. They have gorgeous skin, look much younger, and simply don’t have the same weight and health problems. As I immersed myself in these various cultures and the way they approach health and beauty, I gained a fresh perspective. I could really see how much Western society overcomplicates things with our different diet plans and beauty products.
In contrast, simple beauty practices coupled with a more natural diet gets much better results. When I returned home, I took the best beauty and health secrets I’d collected from my travels, immersed myself in the study of nutrition and backed up my findings with science. My philosophy is the combination of all of my discoveries.
Your body rids the body of toxins, so how is it different from the normal detox?
The Beauty Detox Solution is not about specific foods, but rather teaches a whole different approach to eating that maximized Beauty Energy and increases the beautifying vitamins and minerals you eat everyday. It is about abundance, rather than restriction, and I explain that it is not just about the foods we are eat, but also the order and combination in which we eat them.
The variety of fruits and vegetables and other Beauty Foods I encourage you to eat help flush toxins from the body. And the beauty of this program is that it isn’t a quick fix and you won’t go hungry. I’m not asking you to go on a liquid diet for a week that leaves you tired and hungry. You won’t lose weight and then inevitably gain it all back right away when you go back to your old habits. You’ll eat real, satisfying and delicious food every day, but you’ll be cleansing on an ongoing basis, which is really the only effective way to have a truly beautiful and healthy body for the long-term.
Think of toxicity as rust in a bicycle wheel--it’s so much harder to pedal a bicycle along when the wheels are clogged with rust. Over time, our bodies collect toxins in much the same way a bicycle wheel collects rust. All of that toxicity contributes to weight gain, wrinkles, breakouts, and dull skin, hair and nails. To look your best, you need to clear out that “rust” or toxicity in your body and learn to eat in such a way that you stop amassing toxicity.
Kick start the detox?
The first step is to read the book with an open mind. Since I have created this program from a unique perspective as a nutritionist and world traveler, I introduce many nutritional concepts that might be very new to readers. In fact, my clients often tell me that they go through a paradigm shift in the way they think about food and health after learning the program. And then you can go shopping and whip up some Glowing Green Smoothie to get started!
What is next for you?
My second book, The Beauty Detox Foods, debuted in the United States a few weeks ago at #2 on the New York Times Best seller list. It was a really big goal of mine, so it was really thrilling that it came true! It added more fuel to my overarching goal, which is to make this knowledge available to as many people as possible. Besides all the celebrities I work with, I’ve seen the difference it makes in the lives of readers, and it has made a huge difference in my own personal life. This information really belongs to all.
I do a lot of TV segments, and I want to focus on producing more of my own TV ideas and executing them, so I can help spread the Beauty Detox message further. We are creating and will roll out a whole line of Beauty Detox products- the ones that I recommend and that I can create exactly as I like. The line will include probiotics, digestive enzymes, other ingestibles, skincare and yoga products.
More travel is on the horizon, and yes, more books that will delve into various aspects of the Beauty Detox philosophy!