Drinking white clay would make you lose weight: in the US it is fashion

White clay and ventilated green clay are qualities of clay that can be drunk, that is, they are edible. Why should one drink clay? Well, the ventilated green clay, dissolved and drunk in a glass of water, seems to have purifying properties, and gives the body some minerals such as iron, silicon, magnesium, etc., in short, a lot of beautiful things that would have the ability to renew the dermis (therefore purify the skin), deflate the belly , reduce the stagnation of liquids, fight stomach acid, prevent inflammation, strengthen the immune system, purify the liver and biliary tract.
On the other hand, it seems that white bentonite or white clay not only has the same properties as green clay, but also makes you lose weight. Or at least this is what they say in the United States, where the so-called “clay diet” is depopulated : who used it for purification purposes (would it make heavy metals go away from the body !?) and a group of starlets also testified a noticeable weight loss . In short, white clay has become the stars’ slimming secret.

From here it was a short step to create a fashion. And here I want you. The Huffington Post has published two articles on the phenomenon of white drinking clay, making some considerations that I believe are important.
Given that the clay, be it white or green, is not drunk like this, simply, butit should be placed in a glass with water, mixed well with a wooden spoon (never plastic or metal), kept to rest overnight so that the insoluble matter settles on the bottom and what remains afloat can be drunk (the clay gel), experts recommend caution. Because?
Because drinking clay is not for everyone, and even edible clay (including the ventilated green one ) can turn out to be toxic: the story that ancient peoples drank it to purify themselves does not mean that it is necessarily good for you. If we think about it, it is a fallacious logic, a bit like saying that all grandma’s remedies work: commonplace suggests this, practice doesn’t, science doesn’t either. According to experts, the “purifying effect” of edible clays would cause the body to lose other useful substances, while once upon a time, in populations that certainly did not have today’s diet, it could actually pass as a tonic, and so it is currently used by some populations indigenous. Furthermore, associations recommend caution for the possible ingestion of arsenic present in white clay, and the bentonite that composes it is not considered safe.
In short, in spite of all the sites that recommend its use, I think that a normal calcium, iron or magnesium supplement can perform the task of white, green or colorful clay very well.