The detox diet? For doctors it is a hoax

The detox diet? For doctors it is a hoax

If you have time and money to waste, why not try a good detox diet?
It is the provocation of a group of doctors and researchers who, in a guide available on Sense about Science ( Making sense of Chemical Stories ), dispels the false myths about the detox diet.

The authors state that instead of a diet of juices, fruits and vegetables do better to detoxify the body, along with drinking water and getting some good sleep.

For those who want to know more there is the download guide, and, on the same site, a study on detoxification ( The Detox dossier ) which also includes diets.
From reading both of them, a strong and clear concept emerges: the detox diet for these scientists is a hoax. The body does not need specific diets to detoxify itself, but at the limit of a correct and healthy diet to feel good.

In fact, the body would know very well how to detoxify itself, explain the authors. It would therefore be nonsense to think that specific juices or herbal teas would be able to cleanse us of toxins.

But the fad of the detox diet means that many people buy specific products to cleanse the colon, liver and pancreas of poisons, spending a lot of money on an apparent cure. Among the authors of the document against detox we find a chemist, a dietician and a toxicologist.

They all agree to reject the detox diet as a fad whose effects are useless.

The only advantages of these alleged detox diets are in a massive consumption of fruit and vegetables that does not hurt, allows you to lose a few pounds and fill up on vitamins.
No detoxifying effect, however.

Rather it’s marketing, baby.

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