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Thursday, January 22, 2009
“Detoxing” your way to good health?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The use of herbal formulas for cleansing, detoxification and organ support has become wildly popular, according to a recent New York Times article. It says that nearly all of the 15,000 health spas nationwide offer some type of detox program. How its said to work: by avoiding certain foods, adding nutritional and herbal supplements and cleansing your innards, you can cure the body of all sorts of evils.
But critics — many of them, mainstream doctors — emphasize what they say is a lack of scientific evidence that detoxification actually works. “I advise patients that these detox programs amount to a large quantity of excrement, both literally and figuratively,” one doctor said.
Have you tried any of these detox programs? What was your experience?
