The Beauty Detox Solution by Kimberly Snyder

surface locally and to use prescription topical creams. The issue with that, as with all medications, is that piling them on or in the body merely suppresses the symptoms. They don’t get to the root cause.
    I am a huge advocate of using the right products on your skin, but if you are using the right cleansers and other good, non-clogging products and you still have an acne issue that is affecting your self-esteem and you are considering trying a prescription medication or even antibiotics, then there is probably a much deeper problem going on.
    Our skin is like an external monitor that provides us with information about the internal state of our liver, our blood and our colon. Acne is often a symptom of something happening inside, so we need to treat the cause and not just the effect.
    When our skin has to pour out so many toxins that it erupts into acne, that is a red flag that toxicity, bacteria, and/or yeast is overwhelming the body. Usually, our liver eliminates toxins and impurities by pushing them into the colon. But this works only when the colon is clean and functioning optimally. If the colon is clogged and backed up (which can happen on a deeper level even if we are regularly going to the bathroom), and/or if our bodies have become overly acidic and a fertile breeding ground for unfriendly bacteria, our liver will get clogged and backed up, and toxins will be pushed out through the skin…and then the acne shows up!
    We will uncover how you can cleanse the body internally with nature’s strongest food scrubs and probiotics to kick your acne out once and for all. And when acne crops up, you will know what that indicates and how to eat and cleanse your way back to clear skin.
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    EAT LIGHT TO HEAVY
    Now that we’ve learned about Beauty Food Pairing together, here is the next piece that we need to put the methodology into practice: Light to Heavy 21 It is not just what we eat that matters, or even just the combination, but also the order in which we eat our food.
    Like Beauty Food Pairing, Light to Heavy is designed to make food move as quickly as possible through our bodies. As we’ve been stressing throughout the book, it is all about speed: we want nutrients in the food to absorb quickly and the rest of the food to pass through. Speed reduces fermentation, putrefaction, gassiness and bloating—not to mention wasted Beauty Energy…all the things that contribute to aging.
    SPEED IS POSSIBLE ONLY IF WE AVOID A TRAFFIC JAM
    Imagine if there was a Porsche, a Land Rover, and a sixteen-wheel truck on the highway, and you were the traffic marshal that had all the authority to position each vehicle along the highway to avoid traffic. How would you position the vehicles so that traffic would move efficiently down the highway?
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    ROUTE BEAUTY
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    In this order, all vehicles can speed along and traffic is avoided! But what happens when we switch the order?
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    TRAFFIC JAM
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    Under this second scenario, the highway is all backed up, and we have caused a traffic jam. The Porsche is stuck in the back, spinning its wheels. How does this apply to our food?
    We’ve already discussed that the longer a food stays in our system, the longer it has to putrefy and ferment.
    Therefore, we need to be aware of how fast foods move in general, and eat the lightest food items first, ending with the heaviest food items, to keep the food passing through as fast as possible.
    The lightest foods move the fastest through the stomach and the heaviest ones move the slowest. Fruit passes through the stomach in about twenty to thirty minutes, with the exception of the banana, which takes about forty-five minutes. Starches remain in the stomach a few hours, and proteins even longer, as they are the slowest moving and take the most work to break down. That is why it is generally recommended to wait three to four hours before switching to a different food group.
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    SPEED OF FOOD GROUP
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