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Cleases/Detoxes

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  • zillah73
    zillah73 Posts: 505 Member
    What foods have cleansing properties? What specifically do they cleanse?

    The ones I incorporate the most (mostly because they are the easiest to add to recipes) are flax seed & chia seeds (which I just toss into oatmeal), lemons, parsley, garlic, artichokes, ginger and kale. I also take spirulina daily. There are lots of articles online you could research with the exact properties/functions for each but the gist is that they each just sorta help your body do what it does naturally in breaking down foods and expelling waste. Of course, I am sure there are also articles out there dispelling this but that just seems counter-intuitive to me. Food is what our body needs for optimal function – makes sense to me that certain foods work in specific ways within our systems.
  • LissaK1981
    LissaK1981 Posts: 219 Member
    Whatever the stuff is that they prescribe you right before a colonoscopy. Heard that stuff cleans ya out a lot, and fast. :laugh:
  • jbruced
    jbruced Posts: 210 Member
    Whatever the stuff is that they prescribe you right before a colonoscopy. Heard that stuff cleans ya out a lot, and fast. :laugh:
    That is very true.
  • bonjalandoni
    bonjalandoni Posts: 136 Member
    I cleansed myself of soda, I lost 20 lbs in the first month...
  • originalcookiemonster
    originalcookiemonster Posts: 278
    Yes, evolution has given you kidneys. These cleanse/detox you. Unless they are malfunctioning, I would trust to these biological miracles if I were you.......

    ^^^yup.
  • originalcookiemonster
    originalcookiemonster Posts: 278
    Whatever the stuff is that they prescribe you right before a colonoscopy. Heard that stuff cleans ya out a lot, and fast. :laugh:

    BAHAHAHAHA!!!
  • Crankstr
    Crankstr Posts: 3,958 Member
    NO.
  • SherryTeach
    SherryTeach Posts: 2,836 Member
    I've never heard it defined what exactly is in those "toxins" people are trying to cleanse. I think it's all silly.
  • ryry_
    ryry_ Posts: 4,966 Member
    Whatever you hear about the benefits of cleansing or detoxing is a sales pitch not science. The only thing likely to be cleaned out is your wallet
    psychological benefits are science. :)

    and it does have physiological benefits as well, just not any more than eating "clean" would.

    Nope. The five basic requirements for a field to be considered scientifically rigorous: clearly defined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility and, finally, predictability and testability.

    http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/13/news/la-ol-blowback-pscyhology-science-20120713

    I don't think anyone has ever accused this particular poster of being "scientifically rigorous"
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