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Don’t let business travel ruin your detox!

Being a business traveller needn’t mean throwing your well-intentioned New Year detox out of the window – just follow DialExpotel’s simple tips for a sin-free January.

Whether it’s giving up cigarettes and alcohol or foregoing fast food, 1 January means a detox for many of us. But even if you can’t fit a juicer in your suitcase, there are still things you can do to help you stick to your New Year resolutions.

Go green

Dr Enid Taylor, a naturopath at the Taymount Clinic for Digestive Health in Hertfordshire, recommends stocking up on greens, to get your system back on track. To increase your quota, why not take an apple or two for your journey, drink a lime-based smoothie or have an extra side order of veg at the hotel restaurant?

Ask your chef

“Never be too shy to ask if something can be prepared specially when you’re staying in a hotel,” Edin says. Whether you’re swapping cow’s milk for soya milk, white bread and biscuits for rye bread and oatcakes or cutting down on meat or carbs, check what’s possible – hotels are very accommodating!

Drink wise

If you’re looking to replace your daily cuppa, give the Yogi Tea Fit 4 the Day programme a go (£3.49 for 24 tea bags). Its flavours are designed to match your body’s daily needs, including green tea and guarana for morning get-up-and-go, and fennel, chamomile and cardamom to help you catch 40 winks.

Digestion aids

Although fasting or faddy meal replacements are a definite no-no for the business traveller, drinking lemon juice and warm water before a meal is an easy way to help you digest. Give your tum an additional boost with a supplement, such as digestion aids Cynara Tumeric and Cynara Artichoke (£14.99 for 60 capsules, and £7.99 for 30 tablets, respectively, from Boots).

Water wonder

Drinking water is one of the quickest, cheapest and most effective ways to cleanse your system! It’s also easy to add into your day-to-day life on the road: travel with a bottle of water in your bag; when in meetings, skip the coffee in favour of a glass of water; and when raiding the mini-bar in your hotel room, side-step the Beefeater’s and choose the mineral water instead.

Booze ban

Cutting out alcohol is a great way of detoxing. However, if you’re finding it difficult to ban the booze, hypnotherapist David Allen offers downloadable sessions that can be played on your iPod while on the road (from £4.95 – to find out more, call 0800 458 8014).

Bathing beauty

And finally, after a hard day of travelling and meetings, make the most of your hotel’s facilities – and we don’t mean the bar! Grab your togs and head to the spa – a cleansing treatment or even a 15-minute stew in the sauna will go a long way towards keeping your detox on track.

This feature was written by DialExpotel for Expotel, the UK’s leading hotel, travel and venue booking agency. To find out more about Expotel, call 0844 793 7300.

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