(To skip my long commentary, scroll down to the asterisks.)

It's really, really difficult, I've found, just to Google terms like "detoxify" and get *non-commercial* information about *food* sources, so I'm glad you've given me additional incentive to try looking again--in the past I've just given up my searches in frustration.

I am, on principle, open to alternative therapies, i.e., therapies outside of the allopathic/medical model of health sustenance, but I have little faith in a lot of the particular practices such as liver flushes and intensive chelation therapy and high colonics, not because they're "alternative," but because of *why* they're "alternative": A core value of the medical establishment--and of the academic community at large--is that solutions shouldn't be touted until they can be demonstrated to have consistent, reliable results when they're used: not necessarily perfect results, but not all over the map or unpredictable results, either.

The reason these "alternative" therapies aren't touted by the Western medical establishment is not so much because they'll put the AMA's members out of business as because they're not consistently safe and effective. And some of them, like chelation therapy, can be dangerous: if you're not careful you can flush *too* much calcium out of your body, which can kill you.

Now, I don't trust drug companies very much (even though about nine prescriptions keep me alive every day), but I don't think they really consider naturopathic nutritionists and such to be credible competition. And there are plenty of naturopaths who I'm sure believe they are working for the good of humanity but who also are out to make their lives comfortable by selling Special Formulations of "super" these-and-those to upper middle class white people who believe themselves entitled to turn back the clock because they're better than the billions of poor slobs who are gonna be ignorant and lazy enough to *die* sooner or later.

(Oh, my, how my sentences *do* go on...)

I think food is our last, best hope, just as it was our first.

And *still*, it's hard to find online lists of foods that will help to get and keep our bodies cleansed and whole without our having to shell out big bucks for supplements, books, or interactive DVDs.

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So I ended up just going to Wikipedia, where there's a daunting cluster of links to terms like "phytochemicals" and "antioxidants" and stuff. I think the best starting place is probably this link:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ts_in_food

This entry, like my foregoing sermon, is kind of verbose, but there's a pretty str8forward list at the bottom of the page. I'd start there.

It's important to remember that even though antioxidants are important to slow the deterioration of our bodies, not all that is an antioxidant is necessarily healthful. BHT, for example, is an antioxidant that's banned as a food preservative in several countries, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest says that BHA, another antioxidant preservative, should be avoided completely. So let the buyer beware. (For example, they say to avoid aspartame, but I don't--for me it's the least of several evils.)

But for the most part, if you're eating whole foods that are listed as being high in phytochemicals and/or other antioxidants, you'll probably do okay, and eventually you may wind up with fewer toxins doing you in from the inside.