Detoxify the body Does this help the detox cure?

Detoxify and lose weight: How healthy are detox cures?

Some people start the new year with a detox cure. This is to detoxify the body after feasting on the holidays and be freed of excess pounds. It also states that it can strengthen the immune system. Does such a cure but in fact something?

Many have increased on the holidays

After feasting on Christmas and New Year's Eve, it is time for many Germans to reduce the accumulated hip gold again. People who want to lose weight often try different diet programs, such as carbohydrates or fat. However, extreme diets are often problematic for health reasons. Experts recommend rather healthy fasting and detoxification, for example in the form of a detox cure.

After feasting on the holidays is at many German citizens to a detox cure. You can not only detoxify the body, but also reduce its weight. The acid-base balance of the body plays a very special role. (Image: M.studio/fotolia.com)

Free body of harmful substances

"Detox" stands for "detoxification" (English: "detoxification") and means detoxification. In such a cure, the body should be freed from harmful toxins.

There are many concepts to cleanse your body from within. In the meantime, you can even have the corresponding menus delivered to your home.

But most will prefer to assemble their menu themselves. There is a lot to be considered.

Basic foods are allowed

The acid-base balance plays a major role in such cures. Certain foods lead to acidity of the body.

According to health experts, this burdens the organism and promotes diseases such as arthrosis, atopic dermatitis and osteoporosis.

Acid or acid-forming foods such as meat, eggs, dairy products, sweets, ready meals, white flour, alcohol, lemonade, coffee, black and green tea are taboo during a detox cure.

Basic foods such as fruits and vegetables, pulses, protein products such as soy or tofu, oils, herbal tea, vegetable juices, water, almonds or unsweetened soymilk and products made from buckwheat flour, spelled flour, millet or soybean meal are allowed.

Different information about the acid load

Alkaline foods are also suitable for better fat burning, which is why they are explicitly recommended by nutrition experts when no real weight loss occurs despite intensive diets and exercise.

However, it is also criticized by experts that counselors make different statements about the acidity of various foods.

The table by Thomas Remer and Friedrich Manz is according to the Association for Independent Health Care e.V. (UGB) a reliable source.

Drink plenty of water

In a detox cure - which may take days or weeks - is often started with a colon cleanse. The intestine is emptied with Epsom salt or a rinse.

This is followed by a diet with a liquid diet. As a rule, only foods such as vegetable soups, smoothies, herbal teas and water are consumed for two days.

On the days after then the basic foods come on the table.

In addition to this nutritional program, plenty of water should always be consumed. Sport is one of them. The body can carry away acids better and excrete.

No scientific evidence of effectiveness

However, studies showing the effectiveness of detox cures are lacking. There is "no scientific evidence that such measures promote the excretion of toxins," writes the German Nutrition Society (DGE) in a statement.

In addition, the experts report: "Different buffer systems of our body regulate the acid-base concentration in the blood and keep it constant."

It is therefore unnecessary to "take extra" base-enhancing "supplements".

Healthy body copes with pollution

Even the head of toxicology at the Technical University of Munich, Thomas Zilker finds the detox diet unnecessary, reported the "Focus" last year. "The body offers the best detoxification program itself," Zilker said, according to the news magazine.

Accordingly, the human body copes well with normal pollution. The liver normally treats the substances and renders them harmless, and the kidneys then excrete them.

In addition, both organs can even increase their performance for a short time under heavy load - for example, if we have drunk a lot of alcohol or take strong medications.

Also, the nutrition expert Monika Bischoff of the hospital Barmherzige brothers in Munich, had in the past compared to "Focus" critical of detox cures: "Scientifically speaking, there is no waste, garbage and toxins that accumulate in the body and therefore detox is nonsense ", So the expert. (Ad)