The Secrets of a Detoxification Diet - By: AlexGates

The detoxification diet is quite unlike the paths preached by the Lord Buddha and it is merely another in the increasing list of programs promoting weight loss. Its endorsement by celebrities and subsequent worship by their fan clubs is what make the diet so popular.

What happens?
A literal “detox” of the body takes place and by following the detoxification diet, we are hindering the entry of toxins into the body, and flushing out those toxins present. Toxins that affect the body come from food, water, from chemicals in the process of growing or preparing food, and even can be contained in the air.

The detoxification diet supports the removal of toxins from the body and results in weight loss, feeling healthier and promotes recovery from all manner of minor but troublesome health issues. The riddance of these problems is the causative force of attraction to the detoxification diet.

How Does It Work?
The detoxification diet includes a list food considerations and herbal medications to be ingested. Herbal supplements could be milk thistle and other detox drinks. ‘Liver’ tonics are recommended quite often.

The various detoxification diets vary in content but most of them contain a fast, that is actually cessation of eating for a few days, and then the slow reintroduction of certain foods, considered beneficial, back into your diet.

The so called allowed and banned foods vary quite widely amongst the selection of diets available, but generally the allowed list comprises:
• Large quantities of water
• Vegetables
• Fruit
• Beans
• Seeds
• Nuts
• Herbal teas

Contrastingly banned items are made up of much loved foods. They are:
• Processed foods
• Meat
• Eggs
• Dairy
• Wheat
• Fish
• Caffeine
• Salt
• Sugar
• Alcohol

A week of eating only the approved foods, is followed by the reintroduction of other foods into your diet - except for some, including red meats and wheat, even sugar and eggs, and all of course all prepackaged foods, including junk foods.

Thorough chewing of food is encouraged, while on the diet, together with the drinking of very little water while eating, with a process of relaxation preceding each meal.

Contra Indicators
Detoxification diets can be short of nutrients, and may lead to deficiencies and lowered immunity. A rigid diet may create an obsession with food and thereby an eating disorder.
Positively, development of healthy eating habits is seen. The eating of more fruit and vegetables, heavy consumption of water and the reduction of junk and processed foods are major pluses. The caffeine and alcohol consumption levels being cut down are other good factors.

Despite the weight loss that makes wanting to follow a detoxification diet so attractive, there is no scientific evidence to prove the need for such a diet to help the body in the process of riddance of waste products. This is, if the subjects are healthy. The claim that detoxification diets work also has little proof.

Most experts are agreed that rigid detoxification diet, followed for a long time, can lead to nutrient deficiencies and associated health problems. The body has to be generally allowed to perform its functions. Try a detoxification diet but don’t obsess on it.

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