A detox program as a way to lose weight is a relatively new idea. For decades, the "calories in, calories out" approach was considered the only sound way to lose weight. But awareness has been slowly growing that cleaning the poisons out of our bodies with a cleansing diet just might be a pretty good […]

Yesterday was my first full day of my detox cleanse and it wasn’t bad at all. Obviously, it’s too early to have any report on results. But first, here’s an important question you need to answer before even considering a cleansing diet for yourself … Is A Detox Cleanse A Good Idea, A Fad Or […]

Today we start a multi-article series on detoxing or cleansing: who should do it, how to do it, the rewards and the not-so-fun moments. If you've been wondering if a detox is right for you, we start here with a lot of answers. For decades, those of us who believed in a detox cleanse were […]

The first time I saw Jorge Cruise’s diet, I was thoroughly confused. It’s called the 3 Hour Diet – but what does that mean? Surely he can’t seriously be suggesting that anyone will be thin in three hours? Am I supposed to have lost weight in such a short time … which would be absurd […]

The Lemonade Cleansing Diet isn't new but has grown in publicity and popularity since the increased publicity about fasting as a way of improving health and losing weight. The slim volume that lays out the lemonade cleanse was written by Stanley Burroughs in 1941. Also known as The Maple Syrup Diet and The Lemonade Diet, […]

Recently the BBC announced that detox diets are "useless" and your organs are perfectly able to cleanse the body without any active outside help. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-425739/Detox-diets-useless-say-researchers.html] Junk Science & Cleansing Your Body I am referring to the BBC "study" as junk science, but actually there wasn't much science to it at all. The human guinea pigs […]