Down with detox!

[ciphergoth]

Don't bother with detox diets - they are pure superstition. You might as well turn to crystal healing.

Don't take my word for it - ask the chief scientist of the Food Standards Agency.

(of course, this might not be a bad time to eat slightly more healthily than normal in between the bouts of eating much less healthily than normal, but that's rather different...)

Comments

[gothbabe.livejournal.com]

He's right. Those things do a lot. I also agree about the home-cooked food. A diet without e-numbers and preservatives can make you feel a lot better.

In some cases, however, I believe that herbs/supplements can help your health as I've known people who've had really bad liver conditions that were helped by herbs like Milk Thistle. Frankly though, I think that people shouldn't experiment with herbs, vitamins, etc except under the care of a trained professional.

I'll leave my comments at this... but if you ever want to discuss diet and health, just let me know... tis a subject I like to discuss and have strong opinions about. ; )

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

If you've got a liver problem, then it makes sense that certain herbs/vitamins/medicines could help. However if you don't, expecting any supplement to create a SuperLiver sounds like a hiding to nothing except a depleted bank balance.

Telling the difference is the real art, especially when swallowing pills is easy while changing habits of a lifetime isn't.

Now if only I could get an extra hour of sleep a night prescribed on the NHS...

[gothbabe.livejournal.com]

Now if only I could get an extra hour of sleep a night prescribed on the NHS...

Hehe, that's what people dose up on melatonin for
; )

Btw, 'what's a kumquat like you doin' in a place like this'? ; )