any one tried a fruit detox?

[Semidevil]

I'm in need of revamping my diet just for overall health. Not obese or anything, just need to be in better shape. 5'6 140 pounds, belly heavily visible.

Has any tried one of those fruit detox diets, where you eat nothing but fruit for xx amount of days? any feed back? did you get any benefits just from those days?

I'm not sure if I can sustain my life on a fruit diet, but I was thinking of making fruits the main driver for my meal. I.E, still have the lean chicken or whatever, but don't stuff myself with it. Make Fruit the meal that keeps me full. That way, I still get that protein that I need. I think this will give me the caloric deficit that I need, and along with exercise, should make me a bit leaner.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

It's my general sense that these "detox" diets are not very well supported by any meaningful research, and are rather mostly fads and marketing hype.

I'm not an expert, by any means, but at first blush to me it also seems that overloading on fruit (as opposed to green, leafy, fibrous vegetables) introduces a lot more simple sugars into the diet than would be ideal. These might be a bit better than refined and processed sugars in candy and such, considering their source, but still can be too much if not consumed in moderation.

As far as I know, the best way to "detox" is to make sure your diet includes a healthy amount of antioxidants. While there are certainly plenty of good sources in fruits (blueberries, pomegranates), I'm pretty sure foods like spinach and broccoli have even higher antioxidant contents without all the extra sugars.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Any diet that recommends only taking in one food group for any period of time is crap. Like Cerpin Taxt said, there's no reputable research backing those diets. Most of them are pretty bad for you. This one loads you up on fructose, which will increase the amount of fat stored within your liver, reduce your insulin sensitivity (leading toward diabetes), and likely put you in an unnecessary caloric deficit. If you're worried about your overall health, this isn't something you should consider. You need to eat a balanced diet. If you want to detox, eat a diet of wild caught, free range chicken, lean beef, grass fed beef, veggies of all color, some fruit, lots of seeds and nuts, etc.

 

[Exodist]

I am not a believer in most all ho cuss po cuss detox BS. But eating fruit for a day will clean you out At least it does me. Which is why tomarrow is a sugar free Jello and fruit day. Gota get that thankgiving meal out of me.. hehe

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Don't do this. In fact, as a general rule, it's unwise to do anything that labels itself as a 'detox' unless it's for alchohol or drugs.

The idea behind the whole detox fad is that inside your body there are bogeymen, in the form of unidentified 'toxins', that cause some unidentified damage to your body. It's apparently a good idea to get rid of these toxins (whatever they are) and replace them with more 'wholesome' things (whatever they are). Basically these diets try to get you to do too much of a good thing - for example, fruit are on the whole good for you. But eating fruit, to the exclusion of everything else, is bad. You miss out on a lot of protein, fat, and various minerals and vitamins depending on the exact fruit you eat. The other major objection to these kinds of diet are that the toxins that are supposed to be cleansed have never been identified, isolated, or correlated with disease.

If you want to improve your image, then exercise and a balanced diet will help out much more than eating nothing but fruit.