ICB: Magic detox diets - just intoxicating marketing?

Al says:

11:13am | 12/01/12

There is only 1 way to ‘detox’. Stop putting the toxins in.
There are a few things out there that can assist removing certain toxins (say chlorphill can help remove some heavy metals from the body but won’t help long term unless you stop the intake in the first place), but no simple cure all to remove all the different toxins.
De-tox diets are at best fraudulant and at worst dangerous.

Redeker Plan says:

11:31am | 12/01/12

Totally agree.  I felt a little bit yuck after Christmas/New Year, even though I had made an effort not to overdo it with festive food and alcohol. So last week I made a committed effort to drink heaps of water and eat mostly vegetables.  No alcohol, no sugary desserts, but had watermelon and grapes as a sweet treat.  I feel heaps better.

For Jeebus’ sake, your body will tell you what it needs. Listen to it before you invest in caffeine enemas and Latin Seed bullshit.

Macca says:

11:43am | 12/01/12

“The claim doesn’t even abide by the laws of physics.”

Reading the response to that article was just gold.

If you want to detox, go for a run and eat some fruit and veg. And do your best to stay away from the beer. I’m struggling to stay away from the beer

Randy says:

12:03pm | 12/01/12

I like to detox with more beer and chips.  That’s the way I roll.

Jade says:

12:07pm | 12/01/12

Lol I tried the lemon detox diet a few years ago… never ever again will I ever do another detox! Disgusting :S

Anne71 says:

12:35pm | 12/01/12

Ah, yes, the “Detox” diets. Eloquent proof, if any was needed, that fools and their money are easily parted.  The people who fall for it are usually the ones you see at the supermarket with trolleys full of frozen foods, biscuits, chips and chocolates,  who consider that they’re doing their bit to reduce weight by stocking up on whichever “diet” cola is currently on special, and that the walk from the car to the supermarket counts as exercise. 
The best detox I know is to cut back on the junk food and alcohol,  increase fruit and vegetable intake, drink plenty of water and get more exercise.  And yes, I say “cut back” rather than “cut out”  the junk food, because I don’t think the occasional glass of wine or bar of chocolate does you any harm, as long as the rest of your diet is healthy.

KH says:

01:03pm | 12/01/12

The only thing getting cleaned out here is your wallet…............

neo says:

02:06pm | 12/01/12

All I’m gonna say is if you don’t eat for a week and drink laxatives, of course you’re gonna lose weight. Then once you start eating, you will gain it back, naturally. Detox diets are bs.

Detoxing is for cleansing your body, not for losing weight, and never will be. If you want to detox without going too crazy, just eat healthy for a week or so, no fats, no sweets. Drink plenty of cranberry juice and warm water with freshly squeezed lemon. No need to spend big bucks on some pseudo-detox they are selling on the radio.

Brett says:

03:36pm | 12/01/12

Of course the fun thing about ionic foot baths - beyond the ‘violating laws of physics’  thing - is that they change colour *whether your feet are in them or not*.

stephen says:

09:17pm | 12/01/12

Mate if I saw those girls in white at my bedside table I’d shit me pants too.

stephen says:

09:29pm | 12/01/12

I went to a japanese masseuse a while back and when I turned over, she tapped me on the nose with her forefinger lightly and asked ... ‘would sir like lucky strike now ?’

‘Nah mate, I don’t smoke’ ... and the next thing you know I was out the door tripping over me jocks and I didn’t get to pay a thing !

Motto : give up smoking and you can get a touch-up for nothin’.

Sophie Rose says:

05:39am | 13/01/12

if any of this stuff worked there wouldn’t be so many overweight/obese people, and if you read the fine print on most of the ‘detox’ stuff it says that it works best in conjunction with a calorie-controlled diet and exercise program, and that not everyone will have the same results
It’s the same as when all those ab-blaster machines started showing up on infomercials, you’d have someone saying that they lost eleventy million pounds and lost 46 inches 3 nano-seconds after getting on the machine - while in very small letter at the bottom of the screen it would say ‘results not typical’

Diets don’t work and they aren’t designed to, the diet industry is worth billions every year. You do the specific diet, lose the weight you want, go off the diet and straight back to the eating habits that got you to the point of needing to diet in the first place.
I was a yo-yo dieter for years, and each time I gained back more than I had originally weighed before I started.
So last year I made a resolution and didn’t tell anyone. I changed what I ate, when I ate, and made sure that I moved as much as I could everyday - I’ve never been one for structured exercise stuff.
On the first of Jan this year I was pretty impressed to have lost 32 kilo’s, I still want to lose another 15 but I now know there is no miricle to losing weight, just common sense.
As several people have said - look after your liver and kidneys and they will do the detoxing they are designed to do. The detox you buy over the counter? Just send the money straight to the company that makes it, because the product won’t do anything other than lighten your wallet!

Daniel says:

07:58am | 13/01/12

Its called the capitalist economic system. People are allowed to peddle rubbish and dumb people will buy it.

A says:

08:10am | 13/01/12

Acupuncture and cupping exist in their own rights for specific problems, but for detox? Haha. Hilarious!

The only way to “detox” is to stop eating and drinking junk and eating clean while drinking lots of water while committing to a good exercise regime.

It’s hardly rocket science!

Kelly says:

09:05am | 13/01/12

Husband and I have decided to wean ourselves off our sugar addiction. We’ve stopped buying anything with added sugar, and even those things which have hidden sugars that hide under other names. Once you actually start reading labels, it’s quite shocking how much is in our food, and in things you don’t expect would need them. Society’s obsession with ‘low fat’ has meant adding sweeteners to make up for the lost taste! We aren’t worried about buying low fat products anymore and in fact have gone back to full cream milk, normal Greek yoghurt etc. It’s not like we drink glasses of it. It’s been tough but we are starting to lose some blubber and are feeling much better. My skin has improved beyond belief. We’ve always exercised but as the years go by the kilos are harder to budge.

I seriously can’t believe colonic irrigation! Disgusting, paying someone to shove a tube up your arse and flush out the contents. If we’d have been meant to have a reverse flush, we’d have had an inlet valve!

I once lost 10 kilos using one of those chemist diet things (not Ferguson’s). But I needed to lose some weight before I had surgery as I knew I’d be immobile for a while. It worked, but 3 years later I’ve regained it plus more.

Don’t detox, just don’t tox in the first place!

Tony says:

09:10am | 13/01/12

Why is it that in an age where ‘science’ has become the idol of worshippers, we also seem to fall for scams more than ever before? It never ceases to amaze me just how many people are sucked in by absolute rubbish. Diet fads, get rich quick schemes, pyramid schemes, party plan marketing….......The list goes on and on. Trying to ‘detox’ the world’s atmosphere is exactly the same mentality but try explaining that and listen to the gullible scream.

Anthropomorphic says:

09:28am | 13/01/12

What I want to know is, why has Peter Foster been jailed so many times for his BS slimming/detoxing miracle products such as Bai Lin Tea and yet this entire industry of charlatans (from what I hear, you can add the up-your-nose and up goes your wang cures to that list) has been allowed to flourish? Is it easier for the so-called regulators to target one notorious conman so they can be seen to be doing their job than actually protect the community and regulate this hocus pocus? I call BS and also call the regulators piss weak.

Miles says:

10:05am | 13/01/12

Isn’t it funny how these ‘toxins’ are always so non-specific?  I’ve yet to see them clearly identified, how they affect your body, and how the de-tox scam being sold specifically removes them from your body.  Really though, it’s just feeding on the ‘I want it now with minimal effort’ mentality that pervades society today.

Brynnin says:

10:15am | 13/01/12

I did actually try the lemon detox diet and at the end of my second day in I was pale as a ghost, could barely stand for feeling weak, and had a fever. Ever since then I haven’t considered going near a diet. Do it the old fashioned way - exercise and healthy eating. There is no quick fix.

the digger says:

03:35pm | 13/01/12

An old friend of mine ended up in hospital after doing one of those chemist detox boxes and her health has not been the same since.  Be warned.  Don’t claim you are “detoxing” when all you are doing is starving yourself.  No detox is a good detox.

Lorraine says:

03:44pm | 13/01/12

I remember when the word ‘diet” meant, the food you ate… it did not mean the restrictions you place upon yourself in your efforts to lose the weight you gained from eating too much of everything.
Get real, eat quality food in moderate amounts and turn off the current affairs programs who give us at least one new restrictive diet per week usually talked up by a few women who have lost 3 kilos in the first week and then we never hear from them again.

NESLIHAN KUROSAWA says:

09:31pm | 13/01/12

Hi Tory,

The best book I ever purchased was the Liver Cleansing diet by Dr Sandra Cabot way back! Which was so much more than I expected to ever know & could handle at the time.  It kind of stayed with me believe it or not!  If we all have balanced diets based on natural products rather than processed food, which happens to be something to begin with. Good health might just follow naturally.

However, all the other fancy work outs & cleansing diets seem to be a bit of a joke & a money trap as well. There is always genetic factors at play as well as our life styles!  Meaning getting enough sleep, physical activity such as cleaning your house & being happy have always worked for me!  I could not ask any more than that for having healthy minds & as well bodies.  The rest is history & a bit of a fiasco sometimes, most unfortunately!

Being all stressed about staying young & healthy in an almost obsessive way, is just another major stress trigger & factor!  Do not worry & be happy!  Kind regards to your editors..

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