A short Q&A-style YouTube clip (Dr. Sanda Moldovan, Feb 19, 2019) offering practical detox-food guidance and swaps. Key advice: avoid starchy/sugary potatoes during detox because they raise blood sugar; prefer beans for fiber, nutrients, and iron; use celery root or cauliflower pureed (with curry) as white-vegetable substitutes; olives and olive tapenade (e.g., Trader Joe’s) are acceptable; unsalted rice crackers are fine with tapenade; bone broth is recommended for minerals during detox. The clip encourages persistence through early sugar cravings and invites viewers to tweet questions to @rsanda for more suggestions.
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Hi, everyone. Happy detox. Lichane had some great questions, so I thought we would share them with all of you. So, Lichane, tell me, what are your thoughts about food? Well, I'm hungry, which is normal. But usually that goes away after two, three days. Because your body's gonna crave the sugar. Because all of us usually eat more sugar than we should. And your body will continue to crave the sugar. So stay with it. That'll go away.
Thank you. Thank you, Doc. I want to make a kale soup. So in my kale soup I put potatoes.
Okay. Try not to eat potatoes during this time. The reason is they're very starchy, so they have a lot of sugar. They'll raise your blood sugar level. So instead choose something like beans, for example.
Okay, so I can have beans?
You can have beans.
Next on my list.
They're full of fiber and nutrients and iron, so definitely healthy.
Is there any substitute for the potato? No.
Good question. You can actually have celery root as a substitute or cauliflower. You know, it also has the white. And you can puree it. You can make a nice cauliflower soup pureed with some curry, which is anti inflammatory. Yeah, that's why I come to her with these questions.
Olives. Olives are fetri.
No problem.
Can I have the olive tapenade at Trader Joe's or is that too processed?
Yes, you can. No, really?
And can I have it with the rice crackers? Unsalted?
Yeah, that'll be fine. All right.
Awesome. And then can I use bone broth?
Bone broth is great for the detox because it gives you a lot of the minerals supplements. So see, there's many, many foods and many substitutes that we can use. If you have a question, go ahead and tweet us rsanda so we can find you great tasting food during your detox.
