More and more companies want to make us believe that some combination of fruits and vegetables (the more exotic best) us "desintoxicará", will compensate our bad habits or will cure a long list of disorders. Real smoothies "detox" cleanse the body or rather it is a "superstition à la carte"? Are the Green smoothies a substitute for a good lifestyle or are a hoax with arguments similar to the of fairy tales? In this article elaborates on these issues.
Fruits and vegetables are healthyfoods. The problem is when we trust the health to a milkshake of colours that promises to detoxify us rather than review the diet, become aware of what we eat, and ask ourselves how we could improve. The risk is to find solutions specific or magic to global problems, such as not leading a healthy lifestyle, and wanting to make up for it with a product - in this case, shake-that makes us "feel better" without giving up unhealthy habits.
Thus, a series of products based on vegetable smoothies is making its August thanks to impeccable advertising campaigns, which combine a blend of medical and nutritional grounds with alternative proposals. Your thread on the premise of that if we eliminated certain "toxins", will achieve the "cleansing" of our body. An example of this are the products called Drink6, which ensures that "clean" the body "in 1, 3 or 5 days".
Detox Smoothies: illegal and baseless promises
Drink6 - to continue with the example - offers six products "to purify yourself" from "100% natural" ingredients. First, as explained in the article 'dietary supplements: Beware of 'natural'', legislation prohibits linking "natural" word "intended preventive or therapeutic effects". In fact, such proposals always fail to comply with one or more sections of the Royal Decree 1907 / 1996 on advertising and commercial promotion of products, activities or services intended health purposes.Secondly, any declaration of health must be approved today by the European authority for food safety (EFSA). At all occurs in the case of this company, and many others that also boast that their programs are "backed by nutritionists", when it is not always true, something that violates the law 44/2003, of 21 November, management of the health professions. In all case, even if it were true that had nutritionists (which would not be anything other than false gurus), in reality this type of companies they do not provide evidence supporting the hypothesis that consume its products will have demonstrable health benefits.
Detoxify, purify... what?
The word "Detox" has a medical connotation: is a process that eliminates harmful substances from the body, such as narcotics. However, when to advertise their products, makers of the lucrative "the detox industry" they don't reference toxicants, but incomprehensible entelechies and without scientific basis.This expands on the article 'cleansing diets: superstition à la carte'. For doctor Abel Mariné, reputed Professor of nutrition and food science at the University of Barcelona, the concept of debugged "does not hold scientifically". Says Professor Edzard Ernst, similarly as it justified in research published in 2012 in British Medical Bulletin .
Most recent is the work ' diets detox to eliminate toxins and weight control: a critical review of the scientific evidence ', published on December 18, 2014 in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. It is noted that the words detoxification or cleansing, always present on these proposals, are nothing more than "unfounded claims". As well noted by astrophysicist, writer and science popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson, "the chances of a person to use the word 'toxin' correlate strongly with how much chemistry 'do not' know that person".
The main risks of shakes detox
When lacking scientific evidence supporting the benefits of a health proposal, it is time to look closely at possible risks. They are as follows:Can be used instead of effective therapies. As explained Dr. Syed Amin Tabish in January 2008 in the journal International Journal of Health Sciences, people who believe have succeeded with an alternative therapy for one minor condition can extrapolate that so-called success to other alternative therapies and use them in severe illness, something which, in his words, is "life-threatening". I.e., if those who consume these products do to treat a serious health problem, it will take to use methods with scientific and health guarantee. This can have serious consequences.
Can generate adverse effects. Encourage the intake of these products can cause fatigue, as well as deficiencies of vitamins and minerals, according to said the clinic in March 2015 may in an article titled 'do you offer any health benefit "detox" diets?'.
Can move away from a healthy eating pattern. Believe that a single food is able to improve health translates into a confusion of unpredictable consequences. Thus you learn not to eat healthy, but it will perpetuate the current patterns of power, in which, instead of subtracting unhealthy foods from the diet, they tend to add others that, in theory, "outweigh" our bad habits (that we resist to resign).
Can make us lose money. Or vegetable smoothies and supplements who sell these companies are not at all cheap. That not to mention Stud that usually charge in its consultations charlatans that promote this kind of dreams.
Can promote weight gain. There is evidence to believe that regular consumption of juices not only will not act as a "purifying" or "fat burning", but could also predispose to an increase of body weight in the long term.
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