Is Detox Water Effective?
Put the word ‘detox' on any product after Christmas and it'll fly off the shelves. If the trend continues and the detox brigade continue to buy into these overpriced and over-hyped items, before long we'll have detox chocolate, detox lard, even detox Merlot on the shelves and without doubt they will sell by the truckload.
Detox is another one of those marketing terms that leads people to believe they are putting something healthy into their body when in actual fact the opposite is often true. This is especially so with Detox water. I could not believe my eyes when I walked down the bottled water aisle in a well-known supermarket one January and saw the conventional bottled water shelf full and the ‘detox' bottled water shelf virtually empty. Curious as to what the fuss was all about, I took a bottle off the shelf and read the contents label. I was speechless.
The theory of detox is that you are supposed to cleanse your body, especially the liver, by eating and drinking pure and natural foods that help to eliminate toxins. So which type of water do you think is more beneficial for detox? Is it plain and simple bottled water with nothing but good old H20, or special detox water containing:
- Maltodextrin (sugar)
- Lactose (sugar found in dairy products)
- Fructose (sugar found in fruit)
- Artificial sweeteners and preservatives.
The body is incredibly effective at detoxifying anything it is exposed to, so do not fall into the trap of buying a product with the word ‘detox' on it without looking at the label first.