Real Life: Clean up your act with Dr Detox
MUCH of modern living is toxic, and we suffer for it, with symptoms ranging from fatigue to weight gain and digestion problems. Now, one programme claims it has found a way to get rid of the poisons with a regime that has inspired its own global cult following, with a website, a TV show and support from the likes of the glowing Gwyneth Paltrow who rhapsodises: "I feel pure and happy and much lighter. I enjoyed learning about the incredible benefits of resting your digestive system."
While not long ago, shunning food at lunch in favour of a green juice might only have been the prerogative of wealthy Hollywood types with private chefs at hand, our cultural fixation on cleansing and detoxing means more of us are pleading to purge, despite the fact there's little medical evidence to prove it's good for you.
The push to 'cleanse' is sparked by the theory our bodies have hardly evolved since caveman days, and can't cope with a diet full of refined, processed food and caffeine-laden drinks, not to mention the pesticides, heavy metals and other junk we unwittingly ingest.
Enter 'Clean', a 21-day detoxification programme designed by Dr Alejandro Junger, which has topped the ' New York Times ' best-seller list and is now sweeping the globe.
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"The programme requires you to be off coffee for its duration," Dr Junger tells me by telephone from his busy practice in New York, where he is also a cardiologist.
In addition you have to consume a lot of smoothies and ditch wheat and dairy, plus a whole lot of other foods (see panel p5), for the duration.
Still, such restrictions were obviously no impediment to Gwyneth Paltrow , who is one of Junger's biggest fans.
On finishing the three-week plan, Paltrow (38) said: "I followed it to the letter, and it worked wonders. I feel pure and happy and much lighter -- this is amazing."
The 57-year-old Junger, who moved to New York from Uruguay for postgraduate training in 1990, came up with the programme through trial and error.
Much of it is based on his experiences working at a health retreat in California , and supervising a medical team in India where up to 400 patients a day flocked.
The medic regularly does the three-week detox programme himself.
"The hardest aspect is finishing," he tells me, taking time out from his busy schedule in New York. "During the programme there is so much structure -- you know what to expect from food throughout the day. Your mood becomes stable, since it is not subject to the ups and downs of blood sugar, cortisol and adrenalin, among other influences, hormonal and otherwise," he says.
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There he started to observe the impact diet and meditation had on people with less money and means than his previous patients. Now, some 20 years later, he's written 'Clean'. Put simply, it consists of two liquid meals a day and solid food at lunchtime
The current American epidemic of obesity (its prevalence has doubled since 1980) owes much to large portions—especially sweet, liquid ones. “Sugared beverages are the single most important source of needless calories in the US diet,” says Willett.
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