July 11, 2013
Should you detox?
As a nutritionist I get kind of annoyed when the term "detox"is used wantonly. Detox from WHAT, exactly? Meaning, the term only really applies if you have poor and somewhat toxic eating habits. Even then, a healthy person's liver and kidneys are quite capable of eliminating most of the things we ingest. Your liver and kidneys are the power centers of elimination for your body and almost everything that enters your mouth passes through them. It can take many years of serious abuse and/or sudden, acute toxicity from poisoning and/or onset of disease for your liver and kidneys to fail you. So that being said, what are some things that are processed as toxins?
View the list of 3 below, in order of importance:
- Alcohol
- Some supplement ingredients
- Some additives in processed food