About Detox Diet

Have you ever heard of a detox diet? Some people say this diet works, because they lose quite a lot of weight. But is it really that effective?

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Detox diet remains a controversy everywhere. One research indicates that our body itself has its own 'detox machine', so without any detoxing intended, it can removes all the unnecessary toxins. Some research already compared two people on diet; one with regular diet, and one with detox diet. In a few days, they compared the urine and the feces, whether they contain some toxins or minerals. Turned out, there's no difference between the two of them. From that research, we can conclude that detox diet is not useful, because our body has its own way to detoxify.

The second approach of the detox diet is to find out the cause of allergy. For example, you only eat some fruits for a few days, and eat some other foods the day after, and some protein in the next, to review the body's reaction to those substances. In some cases, this method can find out which food is the allergen to your body.

The other result from this diet is significant weight loss, because, well, eating fruits will definitely turn your calorie intake to the minimum, and this will make you lose a lot of weight. However, this method is not healthy because the weight you lose is actually your muscle mass (and this is something you should definitely avoid). Weight loss from fat-burn is not that fast. Sadly, this is what people want, to lose weight quickly, even if that's not what detox diet was originally meant to do.

So we're back to the question whether detox diet is a good choice to lose weight. Well it's not, because the weight you lose in detox diet is your muscle mass, this also degrades your metabolism. Not long after losing a few kilos, you will gain weight - in what some people call "the yo-yo effect". There are still a lot of ways - healthy ones - to lose some weight.