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Some people say that detox drinks help remove toxins from a person’s body and promote weight loss. Typically, a person includes detox drinks as part of a detoxification diet. However, there is little substantial evidence that these types of drinks and food have any detoxifying effect.
Detoxification is based on medical science. Doctors would often use it when a person is addicted to certain drugs that cause harm to them.
In this context, however, detoxification refers to the medically supported management of a person with acute intoxication. Detoxification also helps with any withdrawal symptoms that a person may experience when they try to stop taking drugs to which they are addicted.
It is not always appropriate to use the word detox. Detox drinks may boost health, aid weight loss, and support the body’s natural detoxification processes, but this is different from medical detoxification.
Does Detox Actually Work?
A study notes that commercially available detox diets can improve a person’s liver from removing toxins from their body. However, the article also points out that these studies had incorrect methodologies and small sample sizes.
A study in Current Gastroenterology Reports, on the other hand, found that a detox diet can help a person lose weight, but only due to the fact that the diet is low in calories.
Furthermore, the authors note that diets that help a person lose weight by significantly reducing the number of calories they consume are unsustainable. Typically, people who take on such calorie-restrictive diets return to their weight in the medium to long term.
Are Detox Drinks a Bad Thing?
Although they do not detoxify in the medical sense, detox drinks can be healthy.
As per the Office for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 75% of the population do not consume enough fruit and vegetables. Consuming drinks containing fruit and vegetables as part of a balanced diet can be a good way to help a person get the nutrition and fibre they need.
Nevertheless, perhaps a better description of these drinks is a healthy drink. Normally, people use a food processor to turn fruits and vegetables into smoothies. As well as being an easy way to consume fruit and vegetables, the use of fresh ingredients preserves the fiber in fruit and vegetables that the juice itself lacks.
The Food and Nutrition Service recognizes that smoothies can play a part in child nutrition programs aimed at helping children to maintain a healthy diet.
Detox Drinks
How healthy a detox drink is will depend on the ingredients. For instance, a lemonade detox drink, containing lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup sounds healthy, but contains few nutrients and is also high in sugar, which a lot of people should try to lessen.
A green smoothie containing carrots, calves, celery, beets, turnips, spinach, cabbage, parsley or cloves, contains many nutrients, but with little sugar, salt, and fat.
Some people may find some combinations of ingredients in green smoothies a little overpowering. It can be a good way to find a combination of ingredients that tastes good while also being rich in nutrients following well-reviewed recipes online.
Summary
There is scientific evidence supporting claims that detox drinks can help remove toxins from the body. However, detox drinks can be healthy if they contain plenty of fruit, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. A diet rich in fruits, fibre, vegetables, healthy proteins, fats, and fibrous carbohydrates promotes the body’s natural detoxification system and creates overall balance.
Drinking nutrient-dense smoothies can be a good and convenient part of a healthy diet. They can help a person consume more vegetables, fruit, and whole grains.
