Super Detox Diet

Super Detox diets can help you lose weight quickly for a special event or can be used as a tool to help get a new diet off to a promising start. Detoxification can also help you to curb cravings and can help you to overcome a sugar or caffeine addiction.

Function

• Super detox diets are primarily used by people looking for a way to lose weight as fast as possible. According to researchers with the Mayo Clinic, people would rather diet than exercise their way to weight loss. Detoxification diets make this a valid possibility.

Time Frame

• The time you are on a detoxification diet is determined by the diet that you have chosen to follow as well as how long you wish to be on the diet.

  The most common detoxification diets are for three, seven or ten days. The longer you are on a detoxification diet the more weight you are going to lose. After the first week, weight loss will slow considerably. It's for this reason that many dieters choose to detox several times during their diet.

Benefits

• The obvious benefit to a super detox diet is the rapid weight loss. There is also evidence, mostly anecdotal, that super detox diets will help you to curb cravings for both sugar and caffeine.

  A super detox diet is also very easy to follow. There is little to no variety or cooking involved with a detox diet, making it very simply to follow.

Features

• The primary feature of detox diets is a single food. Most detox diets focus on juice, raw vegetables and fruits or soup. This makes planning them and following them relatively simple. You will eat or drink the required amounts on a pre set schedule.

  Super detox diets will normally have you begin the day with a glass of water that has lemon juice mixed into it. You will drink a great deal of water on a detox diet. There is no maximum limit but the minimum limit is normally 10 glasses.

Considerations

• You should discuss following a super detox diet with your primary health care provider before beginning. If you begin to suffer any ill effects during the detox diet, you should immediately stop the diet and seek medical attention.

  Super detoxification diets are a way to start a diet plan or to lose a small amount of weight quickly. The majority of the weight lost is water weight and it will be regained quickly once you begin to eat normally.

Theories/Speculation

• There are widely held beliefs that a super detoxification diet can cure illnesses, end caffeine addictions and sugar cravings. There is no scientific proof that a detox diet will cure illness.

  There is some evidence that detoxification diets do end both cravings for sugar and an addiction to caffeine. However this is more common sense than anything else. For the duration of the detox diet, you are not able to have either sugar or caffeine. Once you have not ingested either of these items for several days, you will naturally no longer have any physiological addiction. The ability to deny yourself these things for the duration of the diet will likewise break any existing psychological addiction.