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

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

it's wrong to sell people the idea that their body is full of 'toxins' and eating raw food and drinking water will 'flush them out'. It's just bad biology.

Oh, I definitely agree on the bad science part. But what concerns me is that it is the diet, which in itself is fine (the raw food/veg example) and has existed long before anyone gave it the name "detox", which will be the casualty, rather than the practice of making up non-scientific "science" terms to sell stuff to people. It would be a shame if what people took away from the research was not "marketing people are often underhanded and know sweet FA about biology", but "oh, bugger that raw food diet, apparently it's all nonsense anyway so I'm going to have another sausage".