Proponents of juice diets say they help detoxify the body and increase nutrient absorption; however, nutritionists are sceptical of these claims. dpa
A juice fast, also known as a juice cleanse or juice therapy, is a short-term diet whose proponents say will “detoxify” your body and help you shed excess weight fast.
It has potential drawbacks though.
So how does it work?
Beginning about a week before the actual start of the diet, you should abstain from alcohol, nicotine and coffee, and eat mostly light fare, says Niklas Schwarz, a nutrition coach and fitness trainer at the German University of Applied Sciences for Prevention and Health Management.
We re constantly questioning what kind of diet is best for our health.
Sometimes, the focus is on the harmful effects of too much sugar or fat, or on the amount of animal products we should or shouldn’t eat.
Something that usually doesn’t get much attention is how, if at all, diet affects our body’s acid-base balance.
But some nutritionists maintain that the typical diet in many societies causes an overacidification of the body that can lead to health problems.
Nutritionist and author Juergen Vormann, founder and head of the Munich-based Institute for Prevention and Nutrition in Germany, calls this latent acidosis, i.e. a non-measurable degree of overacidification in which blood pH, kept slightly alkaline by the body in a process known as acid-base homeostasis, becomes less so than normal.
The German Government’s main scientific institution has updated guidance outlining maximum levels of vitamins and minerals in food supplements and fortified foods that are based on recent findings.
According to The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), revisions were in response to nutrient data suggesting the country’s intake of vitamin D, calcium, folic acid and others did not meet the German Nutrition Society’s guidance.
“The more the better - this is a misconception when it comes to vitamins and minerals, says BfR President Professor Dr. Andreas Hensel. The dose determines whether they benefit or harm our health .
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You don’t have to watch the clock to chow down as research has not found any
conclusive evidence for time restrictions on eating. dpa
In the pursuit of health, there have been countless rules disseminated about food and eating, to varying degrees of accuracy and scientific backing.
Some of the most enduring have to do with what times are optimal for eating, and for which types of foods.
One example would be salad: Some say it’s best not to have one at dinner because it’s hard to digest right before you go to bed.
But these rules belong more in the realm of myth than science.