Cleansing Diets: Why or Why Not?  Cleansing diets are trendier
than ever. But do they actually provide any of the claimed
benefits?  Filed under Consumer Ripoffs, Fads, Health  Skeptoid
#335 November 06, 2012 Podcast transcript | Listen | Subscribe
Also available in French Bookmark and Share  These days, just
about everyone has some friend who is doing a "cleanse".
Cleansing is the process of severely limiting your intake of
food for some period of time, usually around five days or so,
often replacing food with a fruit drink. Believers in cleansing
consider it to provide a whole long list of health benefits;
however, doctors never seem to prescribe it for anyone. There
are, in fact, two schools of thought on the matter. On one side
you have the alternative health marketers, nutritionists,
naturopaths, chiropractors, and other alternative medicine
providers who sell cleansing drinks or books; and on the other
side you have doctors and dietitians who never mention cleansing
to anyone at all. Unfortunately, righ