Juice Cleanses Aren’t All Their Cracked Up To Be
Juice Cleanses Aren’t All Their Cracked Up To Be
The juice cleanse trend that is extremely popular in the U.S. may not be all it’s cracked up to be. Of course, using various vegetable and fruit juices to help reestablish a proper way of eating may not be bad for you, that's if you keep the diet up for just a couple of days.
But studies show that starving yourself for weeks and months on end, with the hope of clearing your colon or your blood with a lot of very expensive juices may not be all that healthy for you.
A juice cleanse would consist of a minimum of 10 days in which people should give up all solid food and drink various types of juices, from wheat grass to celery.
The first days of the juice cleanse diet are meant to clean you out, clean your blood and help you eliminate all toxins that may cause harm. It should “give your colon a break” while helping you clear it out. The latter part of the diet would supposedly help your immune system while “curing” all types of diseases in the bud, including degenerative ones. After the juice cleanse diet, you might lose some weight but the main goal is apparently to increase health and energy.
During the juice cleanse people may feel bad, with symptoms like fatigue, headaches and even nausea. The companies that sell this “miracle cure” say that it is normal and that a body that is detoxifying itself should feel like this.
Biologists Steven Swoap and Daniel Lynch have answered and combated some of the “benefits” that a juice cleanse might have.The claim that by reducing calories and giving your colon a break would make the body concentrate the unused energy on functions like healing and increased brain activity is apparently as false as can be.
When people reduce their calories, Swoap says, their entire metabolism slows down, making all your bodily functions harder, like digestion, and the cleansing of toxins through the liver and kidneys.
In regards to the increased blood circulation and oxygen sent to the brain the biologists say that the brain receives the same amount of oxygen and blood regardless of what you eat or how many juice cleanses you do.
In fact, reducing calories enough that your blood pressure drops is the only circumstance in which the brain will get less blood.
The euphoric feeling that comes with a juice cleanse diet, nutritionist say is also found in people suffering from anorexia.
The two biologist conclude in saying that if people want to spend a huge sum of money on the juice cleanse and fast for a couple of days, it should be fine if used as a motivational tool, however, if the desired effect is to get a total body detoxification and colon cleansing it can be achieved far easier with a balanced diet and some cheap laxatives.
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