Are Detoxing Foods a Real Thing?
“Detoxing” has become a trendy word in the wellness space. As a potential solution for people who have been eating too much sugar, have completely given up on their diet for a while, or who simply want to cleanse their bodies of whatever they consider to be a toxin, detoxing foods and diets are certainly having a moment. But are there really foods that rid the body from toxins, or is this just one more bogus claim made at the hands of the wellness industry?
How your body rids itself from toxins: Before we dig into whether eating certain foods can truly detox the body, we first need to have an understanding of how the body works when toxins are in the body in the first place.
The word “toxin” has different meanings depending on who you ask. In conventional medicine, the term generally refers to drugs and alcohol, and detoxing means getting a person to stop taking these substances and ridding the body of them as well. But in other circles, toxins refer to pollutants, heavy metals, sugar, and other components that enter our bodies.
Excerpted from Eat This, Not That!
