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Diet Trend Detox Cure It should detoxify and let the pounds tumble
Teas, smoothies, mueslis: all sorts of products are now also available for detox cures. Detox is "in". Such cures are supposed to detoxify the body. In addition, they can help to lose weight. But what about the new trend?
Healthy fasting and detoxifying
When people want to reduce their body weight, they 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.
Detox cures are trendy. 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: Syda Productions / 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.
Depending on the form and duration, detox represents a kind of intestinal cleansing and detoxification treatment. Detoxifying the liver is also suitable for such a cure.
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 would therefore also 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, reports the "Focus". "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 "Said the expert in the news magazine. (Ad)