Is Detox Diet Harmful?

The concept of detox diet is detoxifying or purifying the body from harmful toxins since most food is contaminated by various ingredients considered needless for human, like food colorings, flavor enhancers, and preservatives. This concept has already been known for centuries and returned back as hot diet trend nowadays.

Every detox diet book and kit usually has their own way to cleanse the body such as spices and fruit juices, or vegetable purees. Mostly their methods are boiling food to extremely low-calorie, above all liquid diets. For about three days to a month, these methods are believed able to rid all toxins absorbed from the environment and unhealthy or junk food.

Some methods for detox diet forbid solid food and survive only allow low-calorie beverages for days. While Joshi holistic diet restrict acid-forming food – including seemingly healthy veggies and grains-  for  about three weeks.  Popular detox diets even claim that this method can wash out all toxins in your body, reduce the excess fat, enhances the immune body system and good for complexion.

However experts say that there is not enough evidence to prove that such radical methods like Master Cleanse or Fruit Flush will work out as claimed and the worst thing is they can cause unpleasant as well as unhealthy side effects. In addition, nutrition experts expressed the dangers of prolonged or repeated detox diets among others vitamin deficiency, muscle breakdown and blood-sugar problems as well as frequent liquid bowel movements.