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Duke Health Connect: The Detox Delusion

The Sprint 2009 issue of Duke University's Health Connect talks about The Detox Delusion.

Give your body more credit. We have evolved over two-and-a-half million years with highly effective detoxification systems -- such as the liver and kidneys. We naturally detox most substances that could be harmful. Our bodies are designed to do this -- if we give them proper food and hydration and don’t stress our systems by eating a diet that includes a disproportionate amount of processed foods.

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Comment by Bert Davich on November 20, 2009 at 10:59pm: I would like to add however, that nutritionism has played a major and insidious role in this industrial diet that is not only killing us, but robbing us of the quality of life that is lived. Nutritionists, who saw great success with treating deficiency diseases, attempted to extrapolate unfounded conclusions (paid for by the food industrial complex) without the efficacy tests they claim others cannot produce using similar extripolation methods.

Beth Reardon seems to be one of the minority of Nutritionists that are working in the proper direction. Her article that you linked can be confirmed by mounds of real data and controlled studies.

A great example is B carotene. Adding B carotene (as well as other anti-oxidants) has never been shown to reduce cancer or any disease, regardless of the claims. In fact, more recent studies have shown that an industrial diet with 'added nutrition' do nothing. Those on the industrial diet and those on the industrial diet 'with added nutrition' fare the same disease outcomes. Those on whole foods, 'organic' or sustainably produced have a significantly lower rate of the same diseases.

Comment by Bert Davich on November 20, 2009 at 10:39pm: Oh my Keith! The very idea that we have evolved over two-and-a-half million years is out dated.... It's more like 4 million years!

And God forbid that we should commit the industrial heresey of giving our bodies proper food and hydration and not stress our systems by eating an industrial diet!

Keep up the good work Keith. It is refreshing.