Detox diets are on everyone’s lips. After the recent passage of Christmas, many women have started to follow eating routines -without any professional advice- in order to achieve in a few weeks what should be done calmly throughout the year. These cleansing eating routines are based on the idea of replacing the main meals of the day with a series of cleansing juices and smoothies made from fruits and vegetables. Given this configuration, doubts can quickly arise about the period of time that a regime of this type should cover.
Recommended duration of a detox diet
- Detox diets, especially those promoted by celebrities from the world of fashion and cinema, tend to be excessively restrictive when it comes to the contribution of certain macronutrients -such as proteins- for example. This issue, according to medical experts, can lead to the development of certain symptoms that can negatively affect all those women who carry them out. Certain anomalies such as nausea, fatigue, vomiting, headaches or digestive problems can occur in the event that we do not know exactly how to follow a cleansing eating routine.
- For this reason, both doctors and nutrition professionals recommend that a detox diet should not last more than two days. Otherwise, the impact on the body of a routine based on juices and shakes could destabilize it on many levels. If our goal is, for example, to lose weight, we must know that the weight lost with these routines has more to do with a clear deterioration of muscle mass than with an effective loss of accumulated fat.
- Thus. we should not extend such a regimen beyond the time frame set by the doctors. In addition, it is possible to achieve the same purposes that a detox diet advocates without exposing the body to this kind of unnecessary effort. A healthy lifestyle and a balanced eating routine combined with daily moderate exercise is a much more effective basis for both losing weight and eliminating toxins from the body.
