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Hot Detox: A 21-Day Anti-Inflammatory Program to Heal Your Gut and Cleanse Your Body
Spark Your Digestion, Safely Cleanse Your Body and Speed Up Healing
Hot Detox unifies soothing cooking techniques, scientific rigor and Eastern food wisdom to create a revolutionary breakthrough in how you can fire up your digestive power and cleanse and heal your body. You’ll discover how
- warming food and drink can dramatically increase the digestibility of a meal and the absorption of vital nutrients
- chopping or blending foods such as broccoli can make them more detoxifying
- cooking and dressing your vegetables with oil makes their phytonutrients more bio-available
- using culinary herbs in your cooking can kill yeast and negative bacteria that may be the cause of bloating and indigestion
- warming spices cleanse the liver, and turmeric has been shown to reduce pain as effectively as over-the-counter medications
- warming up your body’s core will boost low immunity, alleviate IBS and chronic pain, balance hormones and help spur weight loss
Hot Detox is the sanest and smartest way to cleanse, with easy-to-follow 3-, 10- and 21-day plans, proven techniques for crushing cravings and over 140 delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes you’ll want to enjoy every day!
Hot Detox unifies soothing cooking techniques, scientific rigor and Eastern food wisdom to create a revolutionary breakthrough in how you can fire up your digestive power and cleanse and heal your body. You’ll discover how
- warming food and drink can dramatically increase the digestibility of a meal and the absorption of vital nutrients
- chopping or blending foods such as broccoli can make them more detoxifying
- cooking and dressing your vegetables with oil makes their phytonutrients more bio-available
- using culinary herbs in your cooking can kill yeast and negative bacteria that may be the cause of bloating and indigestion
- warming spices cleanse the liver, and turmeric has been shown to reduce pain as effectively as over-the-counter medications
- warming up your body’s core will boost low immunity, alleviate IBS and chronic pain, balance hormones and help spur weight loss
Hot Detox is the sanest and smartest way to cleanse, with easy-to-follow 3-, 10- and 21-day plans, proven techniques for crushing cravings and over 140 delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes you’ll want to enjoy every day!
352 pages, Paperback
Published December 27, 2016
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July 30, 2019
Remember the saying, "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover?" There should be one about titles too, because as soon as I saw the title "Hot Detox", by Registered Holistic Nutritionist Julie Daniluk, I was hooked right away. Then, when I flipped through the book, I found lots of beautiful photographs, healthy-looking recipes, and whole chapters dedicated to cleansing toxins from your "gut", liver, lymph system, kidneys, lungs and skin. Julie Daniluk, who is also the author of the Meals that Heal Inflammation and Slimming Meals that Heal cookbooks, explains how she suffered from colitis and joint pain for years until she began to experiment and eat foods that reduced inflammation in her body. In Hot Detox, Daniluk takes her experience and learning even further, by using warming spices in all the recipes, traditional Ayurvedic practices from India, and medicinal techniques from China. Hot Detox provides a 3 day, 10 day, or 21 day detox plan, each complete with suggested menus.
I decided to try the 21 day detox. In the first 9 days of the plan (Phase 1) you are weaned from gluten, dairy, refined sugar and caffeine. This sounds way worse than it is! I did have a bad headache for a couple of days, which Daniluk suggests could be caused by shifting hormones or toxins, dehydration, or caffeine withdrawal. Phase 2 of the detox (days 10, 11, and 12) eliminates animal products and relies heavily on liquids. Phase 3 allows you to choose whether you want to remain vegan or reintroduce animal products again. There is also more of a focus on rebooting and nourishing all the systems in your body.
I have to say I really surprised myself! Not only did I stick to the plan, but I didn't feel hungry or have cravings. I tried lots of new-to-me foods, such as hemp hearts, chia seeds, coconut flour, and coconut milk. My whole family found the supper recipes to be especially good, and some even provided leftovers for another meal. I think the only recipe I really didn't like was called Detox Rocket, which was a smoothie that included boiled beets. Other members of my family, who are counting calories, didn't like the fact that the detox recipes do not include a nutritional breakdown. To save money, I went to Bulk Barn to get only the amounts I needed of ingredients I wasn't sure I would use again after the detox, rather than buy them in big bags at Goodness Me or the grocery store. Some of the recipes also require additional preparation time, so I either chopped up ingredients in advance, or tried the recipe on a day that wasn't as busy.
I lost 12 pounds on the 21 day detox plan. People ask me, "But how do you FEEL?" Other than the obvious answer, "I feel great! I lost 12 pounds!" I think the biggest change happened after the detox was over, when I ate a cookie a friend had made. One small taste of refined sugar and I felt very sick for several hours. This has only given me more incentive to carry on, and I have now obtained Meals that Heal Inflammation and Slimming Meals that Heal.
Hot Detox has been shortlisted for the Taste Canada Cookbook Awards 2017. Daniluk, who lives in Toronto, has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, is a resident expert for The Marilyn Denis Show, and hosts The Healthy Gourmet on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). Daniluk's blog, free recipes and video cooking classes can be found on her website at www.juliedaniluk.com.
I decided to try the 21 day detox. In the first 9 days of the plan (Phase 1) you are weaned from gluten, dairy, refined sugar and caffeine. This sounds way worse than it is! I did have a bad headache for a couple of days, which Daniluk suggests could be caused by shifting hormones or toxins, dehydration, or caffeine withdrawal. Phase 2 of the detox (days 10, 11, and 12) eliminates animal products and relies heavily on liquids. Phase 3 allows you to choose whether you want to remain vegan or reintroduce animal products again. There is also more of a focus on rebooting and nourishing all the systems in your body.
I have to say I really surprised myself! Not only did I stick to the plan, but I didn't feel hungry or have cravings. I tried lots of new-to-me foods, such as hemp hearts, chia seeds, coconut flour, and coconut milk. My whole family found the supper recipes to be especially good, and some even provided leftovers for another meal. I think the only recipe I really didn't like was called Detox Rocket, which was a smoothie that included boiled beets. Other members of my family, who are counting calories, didn't like the fact that the detox recipes do not include a nutritional breakdown. To save money, I went to Bulk Barn to get only the amounts I needed of ingredients I wasn't sure I would use again after the detox, rather than buy them in big bags at Goodness Me or the grocery store. Some of the recipes also require additional preparation time, so I either chopped up ingredients in advance, or tried the recipe on a day that wasn't as busy.
I lost 12 pounds on the 21 day detox plan. People ask me, "But how do you FEEL?" Other than the obvious answer, "I feel great! I lost 12 pounds!" I think the biggest change happened after the detox was over, when I ate a cookie a friend had made. One small taste of refined sugar and I felt very sick for several hours. This has only given me more incentive to carry on, and I have now obtained Meals that Heal Inflammation and Slimming Meals that Heal.
Hot Detox has been shortlisted for the Taste Canada Cookbook Awards 2017. Daniluk, who lives in Toronto, has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, is a resident expert for The Marilyn Denis Show, and hosts The Healthy Gourmet on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). Daniluk's blog, free recipes and video cooking classes can be found on her website at www.juliedaniluk.com.
January 24, 2023
This isn't a diet book in the traditional sense, of counting points, reducing calories, some lemon juice and water for a week and other non-sense, this is a food plan. You eat! and you eat well.
It's really about anti-inflammatory eating, and it changed everything for me. I had come across other cook books targeted towards digestive issues, but they all still had a lot of nightshade heavy recipes and that was a huge trigger for migraines for me. This book has a few recipes where you can add some nightshades if you tolerate them, it's a great resource of specific foods and their benefits/side effects, all the recipes have really clear icons indicating if a potential allergen is present in the recipe, or an optional booster to the recipe as well.
It has become my kitchen bible and I started to feel amazing, this came into my life at a time I was struggling to find something to eat that didn't give me a 4 day migraine, make me feel like I was 150 instead of 30, hurt my stomach, make me stay near a bathroom and constantly just felt like shit.
I wasn't sick anymore (previously had constant common colds), hadn't had a migraine since I don't know when, wasn't scared to eat, wasn't hungry (no afternoon crashes, not overly full but not starving, just perfectly content), I was able to live my life again. I lost weight (wasn't the goal), my skin cleared, my brain fog lifted, my cycle was textbook perfect, I had tons of energy and slept great each night and never woke up feeling tired.
I love all the recipes, they've even inspired me to make my own using food combinations and more.
It changed my life, and all I did was make almost all my meals from this book, I can't imagine how great I'd have felt if I had followed her protocol for the anti-inflammatory diet plan.
Some of my skeptical family members have also loved the recipes from this book, huge fans of the hulk pancakes, cranberry almond muffins, super shepherds pie, chicken tikka, I wanted options and this book delivers!
It's really about anti-inflammatory eating, and it changed everything for me. I had come across other cook books targeted towards digestive issues, but they all still had a lot of nightshade heavy recipes and that was a huge trigger for migraines for me. This book has a few recipes where you can add some nightshades if you tolerate them, it's a great resource of specific foods and their benefits/side effects, all the recipes have really clear icons indicating if a potential allergen is present in the recipe, or an optional booster to the recipe as well.
It has become my kitchen bible and I started to feel amazing, this came into my life at a time I was struggling to find something to eat that didn't give me a 4 day migraine, make me feel like I was 150 instead of 30, hurt my stomach, make me stay near a bathroom and constantly just felt like shit.
I wasn't sick anymore (previously had constant common colds), hadn't had a migraine since I don't know when, wasn't scared to eat, wasn't hungry (no afternoon crashes, not overly full but not starving, just perfectly content), I was able to live my life again. I lost weight (wasn't the goal), my skin cleared, my brain fog lifted, my cycle was textbook perfect, I had tons of energy and slept great each night and never woke up feeling tired.
I love all the recipes, they've even inspired me to make my own using food combinations and more.
It changed my life, and all I did was make almost all my meals from this book, I can't imagine how great I'd have felt if I had followed her protocol for the anti-inflammatory diet plan.
Some of my skeptical family members have also loved the recipes from this book, huge fans of the hulk pancakes, cranberry almond muffins, super shepherds pie, chicken tikka, I wanted options and this book delivers!
February 22, 2022
Lots of great information on the body and how it works. The detox plans are slightly daunting at first glance, but given time and desire, you could definitely follow the plans to complete a much needed detox. Looking forward to giving the 3 day detox a try to start.
April 4, 2022
Not a fan of the detox message at all but some of the recipes are very good. She got the answers right but didn’t show her work (lol).
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