It’s the New Year, and that means resolutions, new goals, and a new you! Many people have weight loss goals or healthy eating goals as a part of their New Year’s Resolutions; others go to the extreme with intense diets plans. Crash dieting and hitting the gym ONLY during the New Year are not sustainable practices for actual healthy weight loss. One of the best ways to jumpstart into the new year as a healthier you is with detoxification.

If you think detox is used only by “health nuts” looking to lose tons of weight, you are wrong. However, many of the most popular detoxification programs and cleanses being pushed are extremely unhealthy for your body. Detoxification should be used for overall health, not as a quick weight loss tactic. It is a means to clean the body, rid it of wastes and harmful toxins, and reclaim much-needed energy. Don’t get sucked into the trends out of “peer pressure.” Check out the real reasons why you should detox for health in 2015 and get on the right track to overall wellness.