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    Spring Clean Your Diet

    CN Digital StudioSarah Jio, Glamour magazine

    Happy spring! If your wintertime diet was a little blah, consider these three, easy steps to cleaning things up...

    1. Switch from soda to lemon water:
    One of the easiest ways to clean up your diet is ditch the soda, gals. Diet-soda or regular, there are plenty of health warnings about the stuff. A favorite drink among detox enthusiasts is lemon water--warm or cold. Just squeeze the juice of a half of a fresh lemon into water and sip. I swear by this beverage when I've had a few glutinous days.

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    2. Kale:
    A dietician I spoke to recently described antioxidant-rich kale as nature's scouring pad for its ability to scrub your cells (or some variation of that--I didn't get a direct quote). My favorite type of kale is dinosaur kale, which is darker and denser than some of the other varieties. Loaded with that dark green pigment, kale is chock-full of antioxidants that fight disease and cell damage.

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    3. Swap out refined sugar and add in more fruit:
    If you normally sprinkle sugar on your cereal in the morning, try slicing a banana on top instead. The goal here is to think of fruit as your sweetener of choice--and get creative with it! Try apple slices on your almond-butter sandwich instead of jam, or kiwi slices in your Greek yogurt in place of honey.

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    P.S. More to inspire you: Lemon-poppyseed pancakes, smothered in berries. And, this amazing pudding is made with tofu! Plus, 4 ways to clean your house ... with a lemon!


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