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Sally Shalam checks into an Ayrvedic resort in Sri Lanka.(Filed: 04/03/2006)Three months later Day seven of my detox holiday was busy: my body decided to expel all the toxins I had carefully amassed over several years of socialising.

"When Sadie and Kate discover Ayurveda, this is the bit you won't read about in Hello!

," I wrote in my detox diary, after an extended acquaintance with the loo.

In Ayurvedic medicine the body is regarded as a reflection of the universe and its matterI had checked in to the Barberyn Beach Ayurveda Resort in Sri Lanka for three weeks to undergo a thorough detox, hoping to cleanse my body of all the rubbish (fags, booze, too much carbohydrate) I'd been plying it with.

So far the purge seemed to be working; my entry also recorded luminous gr...

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