Do detox diets offer any health benefits?
There are an infinite number of diets claiming to provide detoxification or cleansing health benefits. Is their scientific evidence that these diets do this and actually help your health?
80%Negative
From 5 verified experts:
4 answered Unlikely or higher
Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz has answered Unlikely
An expert from University of Wollongong in Epidemiology, Public Health, Diabetes
There are numerous challenges with detox diets - both the ideas that underlie the diets themselves as well as the evaluation of the diets scientifically. Broadly speaking, the idea that an intervention can 'detox' someone, or even that there are things in your body that you can and should 'detox' from is not well-evidenced. Most of these diets reference vague 'toxins' that, even if they were harmful, would not be removed by the chosen methodology of the diet.
That being said, there are demonstrable health benefits to weight loss, so any diet that helps you to lose weight may also improve your health. However, this is a very general statement about diets overall, not something that can be applied easily to 'detox' diets over any other.
Answered almost 6 years ago
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