When Life Gives You Lemons...

When life gives you lemons, you have two options:

1) Squeeze them into peoples' eyes x(

2) Use them to cleanse your body naturally =D

Lemon juice (in its natural form, not that stuff you buy in the green bottle) has many natural detoxifying qualities.

• Its acidic qualities help break down food in your stomach for better digestion in two ways. Obviously it is acidic in and of itself, which breaks down food, but also, it stimulates the stomach to produce more digestive juices. The more efficiently your stomach breaks down food, the less work your liver has to do.
• Lemons aid in digestion by ensuring that all food gets digested; sometimes food particles find their way into the bloodstream and then to the liver. This puts a heavy strain on the liver causing the liver to need detoxing. The digestive aid of lemon juice prevents food from entering the bloodstream. 
• Your liver is part of your body’s built-in filtration system. Lemon juice is a natural antiseptic, so it helps control harmful bacteria. Not only does this help aid your liver function, but also promotes healthier skin, and even helps soothe minor throat and respiratory problems.
• Lemon juice cleans the liver by aiding in the removal of toxins that can build up in the liver.
• Lemons contain high amounts of vitamin C, which acts as an antioxidant inside the body. The liver filters toxins from the blood; after the toxins are filtered out of the bloodstream, they turn into free radicals. Free radicals present a harmful effect on the liver; the vitamin C from a lemon and water mixture counteracts the effects from free radicals.
• Lemon mixed with water is a very alkaline substance, and restores the body's pH balance. Remember that when the body is acidic it can't absorb nutrients, and when we don't absorb nutrients our body tells us to keep eating, and then we get more calories than we need, and then we get plump.

You never knew them little lemons were so powerful now did ya?!  I bet if we had all posted this on our lemonade stands as kids we would have made a lot more money! ;)