If you’ve experienced any of the health problems I described in the quiz on my detox diet blog, you may already suspect a link between pollution and your health. But even if you’ve been feeling strong and healthy, you should be aware that, like Rome and the others in her study, you’ve almost certainly absorbed an enormous body burden of toxins, most of which are stored in your fat.
That brings me to a profound irony. Many of us decide to lose weight precisely because we value our health. Yet losing excess weight can actually weaken our defenses against these deadly chemicals. As our fat melts away, it releases the toxins that have been stored there, putting us at risk for new health problems, even as losing weight solves some of the old ones.
That’s why I believe our 21st-century slogan must be ‘No Diet Without Detox!’ Finding away to cleanse our bodies of the toxins that flood our environment is crucial for all of us, and even more urgent for those of us who are losing weight. Otherwise, we’re not only at the mercy of toxins in our environment but, by going on our diets and losing weight, also literally poisoning ourselves.
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