Dangers Of A Detox Diet
Popular detox diets promise to flush poisons from your body, purge pounds of excess fat, clear your complexion and bolster your immune system, but experts say there’s little evidence that extreme regimens such as the Master Cleanse or Fruit Flush do anything more than lead to unpleasant, unhealthy side effects.
Despite the warnings, these types of diets are still very popular. It has been a popular diet at many times in the world’s history and seems to make a comeback into the mainstream at different times. No one knows for sure the amount of dieters who use one of these detox program, but it is a huge industry so there must be some market for them.
There has been research done, but it is still unclear how much damage a person is doing to their body by using a detox plan repeatedly. Because of the very restrictive nature of these programs and the fact that they include drugs to eliminate waste products a person is not getting all of the nutrition they need. The lack of the nutrients may allow a person to be more susceptible to many other conditions that could make them sick or worse.
The scores of detox diet books and kits out there each have their own take on how to cleanse the body, one calls for spices and fruit juices, another for only vegetable purees, and many of them claim to help a person lose fat naturally, but most of them boil down to extremely low-calorie, primarily liquid diets.
The idea behind a detox diet, which can last anywhere from three days to about a month, is to rid the body of toxins absorbed from the environment and the less than healthy foods we eat, and this cleansing is supposed to leave you feeling energized.
The restrictive nature of some programs is so extreme that a person will only take in fluids and supplements for a period of time to cleanse their body. Toxins are removed from us without a person having to resort to these measures according to a few medical professionals. Unless a person has other health problems that prevent it, they can use their natural systems to remove the unwanted chemicals and keep them from being built up in them selves. Another problem that is created with the detox programs is that they do not always discriminate the bad toxins from the good stuff in our body’s and remove it all.
There are also many other aches and pains that a person might have to deal with when following these programs.
Another side effect of the cleansing system is the increased frequency of loose bowel movements, something that is never fun to deal with. Constant bouts of diarrhea will lead a person to many other unpleasant symptoms that might not be worth the effort.
While believers claim they feel lighter and more energetic this is not necessarily the case. If your body is not taking in enough calories for an extended period of time, it will go into a conservation mode that actually makes you feel less energized. The fact that a body is not getting the nutrition it needs also makes it take whatever it can from any source, which means it doe not just burn fat to create energy.
The idea of these cleansing system is not to create the ability to permanently lose the fat on their body, they are meant as a way to jump start a more healthy lifestyle that does not allow the fat to return. The more radical the program, the more likely this is to occur. The detox plans are a great way for a person to get into a weight loss plan, but if they don’t change their unhealthy habits they will regain the weight and probably more over the long term.
The reality of losing weight is that there are no quick fixes, no matter how famous the person is who is telling you about their program a person still needs to follow a proper diet while they exercise on a daily basis to keep their body working the way it is supposed to.
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