Natural Colon Cleansing - Fuhrman Eat To Live Program

How Fruits and Vegetables Act Naturally to Detoxify the Colon

By George Mitchell
DuPage Digital Health and Fitness Writer

Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Eat To Live weight loss program does not promote itself as a colon cleansing program, but it is clearly a weight loss plan that will help keep your colon clean and detoxified naturally.

Just about every diet that helps you lose weight accentuates the importance of eating more vegetables, fruits, nuts and grains while eating less meat and other animal-based foods. Fuhrman's Eat To Live program is no different, but only in a broad sense.

Dr. Fuhrman zeroes in on foods and rates them according to their nutritional value or "nutrient density.". There are several pages of his Eat To Live book in which he assigns scores between zero and 100 to a list of almost every food you're likely to eat. He recommends that you can eat as much as you want of foods closer to the 100 score, and as little as possible of the foods that are closer to zero.

You won't be surprised to learn that dark, leafy green vegetables score in the 90s or even 100 in nutrient density. Red meat, many baked goods like cake and doughnuts and a number of other popular consumables rank closer to zero.

Obviously, many of the vegetables Dr. Fuhrman recommends contain a lot of fiber, vitamins and minerals that cleanse the colon naturally. Not only that, but vegetables and fruits generally have a high water content that keeps stool moist and promotes regularity. This, of course, also helps keeps "gunk" from building up in the colon.

Find out more about Dr. Fuhrman's Eat To Live weight loss plan by clicking on Eat To Live or visiting his Member Center. You can also explore some of his meal suggestions by clicking on recipes.

Meanwhile, here are two videos that tell you more about Eat To Live. The first is about the success Alanis Morissette has enjoyed with the program. The other features Dr. Fuhrman talking about weight loss and dieting with Dr. Mehmet Oz.