[VacMan]

Thanks Slamboard, floslib, and funchy,

Yes, basically I am saying: Why do we just dismiss all negative side effects from "trendy" or "healthy" diets as "detox?"

And at the same time, if something feels bad as a result of eating it, we usually will attribute that to something negative, right? Like if I ate some old mayo I might get sick. So I pinpoint it to the mayo. I don't call it "detox" and keep eating the bad mayo.

And furthermore, using the smoking example:

When someone starts smoking, they feel bad... "detox?"

Then they level out and feel fine... "healthy?"

And then when they stop smoking, they feel bad again... "detox?"

No, in those cases it would be "nicotine poison," "addiction," and "withdrawal."

Also, yes, some foods can be contaminated with heavy metals, pesticides, etc. But that has to do with the source and treatment of the food. It can easily happen with a raw vegan diet too. (pesticides)

Just use some common sense.

Not all healthy diets should make you feel bad.

That "feeling bad is good" concept does not make sense to me.

Oh and Slamboard, was that diet called Kimkins?

If so, thank you for doing that! I alerted my subscribers to that scam a few months back.

That is not a cool diet.