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Your Detox-Product Shopping List
From the car fumes we breathe to the pesticide residues on our foods, toxic contaminants are, sadly, a daily reality. Your local health food store is your best source of the wide range of natural foods, herbs, and supplements needed to support natural detoxification.
Cranberry
Cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon, is known more as a colourful fruit than as a medicinal herb. But First Nations used the tart, red berry of this perennial for food and medicine, introducing it to early settlers as a treatment for scurvy, stomach ailments, urinary problems, and as a blood cleanser.