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Article: Detox for a healthy body: is ridding the body of toxins actually good for you? (Health).
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- Town & Country
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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There you are, chatting with your friend Cybele by the holiday buffet. Suddenly, amid the canapes and crudites, she confides that she's reassessing her lifestyle: after this overabundant season, she'll launch into a detoxification regimen (she calls it "detox").You find this at first alarming, then intriguing. Just what is detoxification? How safe is it? How effective? How much scientific evidence supports it?
"Detox?" you say. "Isn't that how alcoholics kick the habit?" Cybele explains that the term also covers regimens for ridding the body of toxic substances. These toxins can be ingested or inhaled (pesticides, heavy metals, alcohol, cigarette smoke and ...