Urban Detox Club
Welcome to the all-new look Urban Detox Club website. We strive to help you find that happy balance between healthy and having a life. Our food-based detoxes help you make small shifts that stick. You will feel better, look better and live better.
You really can EAT tons of absolutely delicious food the entire time. Just make sure it's all natural, wholesome food and absolutely, definitely NO processed foods or drinks containing any artificial additives of any kind. That kind of rules out most of what you can buy in the supermarkets and food stores, but who cares about making them more profits?
Your health is more important than profits!
No Quick Fix
UDC is not about quick fixes or fast results. You will get the tools and knowledge (and recipes) to create a long LASTING healthy lifestyle that will serve you forever.
You can work, exercise, and have a social life on our cleanse.
Dying for a Starbucks latte?
Your coach is just a text or email away to talk you out of it.
Have a headache? Your coach is there to help.
Juicing for Health
Primarily juice and liquid based, this detox method can create a cleansed inner digestive system for your body that it needs and wants. However, don't get hung up on the idea that juicing is the be-all and end-all of healthy dieting and nutrition intake.
While juicing serves a purpose, most juice-based cleanses last just a few days and don't equip you to make long-term lifestyle changes. Jumping into a juice cleanse can be a shock to your system and cause intense fatigue which can interrupt your work, fitness and social engagements.
For what you paid for that juice, it should be able to talk. But it doesn't.
Food is Medicine
Whether you realize it or not, the food you eat can either be an amazing form of medicinal benefit to your health or it can be a toxic fast-track to an early grave. Here's a simple A-B test to see roughly which direction your diet is heading.
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A. You're eating mostly fresh produce prepared and cooked at home (home cooked meals). You buy whole organically grown vegetables that you need to wash, peel and then cut up before cooking, or even eat some of the tastier ones like carrots, raw!
If you eat meat at all, you opt for grass-fed beef or lamb, or organic, free range chicken that is sourced from a local farmer and not transported halfway across the country. Or you just don't eat meat any more.
Same goes for fish, if you eat it. You go for fresh caught fish from traditional fisheries. Or you don't eat it.
To flavor your food, you like to use fresh picked herbs from your garden and add spice from fresh chopped onions, ginger, turmeric and garlic. For condiments, you like fresh ground black pepper and you are aware of how much salt you add, which is only ever fresh ground sea salt.
You like fresh fruit and berries for dessert, and buy these from local organic farm stores or organic farmer markets. You might like to add some locally produced yogurt made from the milk of grass-fed, free grazing cows or goats or cheese and butter from the same source.
You add fresh (unroasted) nuts, seeds and pulses to your meals or snacks and if you fry anything, you use extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil. Your bread is whole-wheat and fresh baked locally, or you make and bake it yourself at home.
You drink fresh water mostly, either home filtered or bottled, sometimes adding the juice of whole lemons or limes for extra taste. If you feel like some alcohol, it is red wine or the occasional malt whiskey or good quality bourbon or brandy. -
B. You can't be bothered to prepare or cook food yourself and don't have a mom at your beck and call to cook it for you. So you live on mostly ready-meals or takeouts consisting of mostly processed foods and you have no idea where the ingredients are sourced from or what additives are included in the food.
Vegetables? Yuk! You prefer pizza anyway.
Fresh fruit and berries? Yuk! You prefer to comfort eat cookies, cup cakes, pastries and processed desserts with loads of sugar, cream and chocolate.
Nuts are roasted and salted, as are other savory snacks that come in packets. You like to eat a lot of potato chips and nachos too. Bread is always white as is any pasta you eat, which is usually part of a packaged meal from the store anyway.
You only drink soda for refreshment. Water? Yuk! You drink beer and/or spirits with soda mixers socially.
A-B Test Results
If your diet is primarily made up of the things in the "A" test, chances are you are relatively healthy, rarely suffer from any illness and feel well with plenty of energy. You should expect to live a longer, healthier life than is considered average and your weight will tend to be within acceptable limits for your height and build.
If your diet is primarily focused on the "B" test, you're in the fast lane to obesity, diabetes and a shorter-than-average life beset with a variety of debilitating medical conditions. If you're compounding the problems associated with that terrible diet by smoking and drinking excess alcohol regularly, you either have a death wish or you should go see your doctor or medical expert and get some heart-felt advice before it's too late.
Not too late? Great! The chances are that even several years of bad diet and unhealthy lifestyle can be brought under control and the damaging effects undone to a certain extent by detoxifying your body and weaning yourself off the oxymoron you call a "lifestyle" to switch to a healthy alternative.