{"id":643,"date":"2016-11-14T07:45:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T13:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/heal2016\/?p=643"},"modified":"2016-11-29T02:39:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T08:39:38","slug":"juice-cleanses-the-new-slim-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/heal2016\/juice-cleanses-the-new-slim-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Juice cleanses- the new \u201cslim fast\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever done a juice cleanse? Well I have, and I\u2019m just now learning that apparently they aren\u2019t all what they are hyped up to be. I used it more of a detox, I thought it made my skin clear up and almost felt like hitting a reset button on my diet. According to this article,<\/a> they have been used for a quick way to slim down. Are they effective to the body? Theoretically, yes they should be. Full of nutrients, 100% juice, no heavy carbs, sounds amazing right? But is there any scientific evidence behind this? As a person who has juiced before, I have to confess I never actually researched if it was a hoax or actually had health benefits, I was sucked into the fad of believing it was a good idea. I didn\u2019t know there could actually be some potential health risks to be mindful of.<\/p>\n

Caroline Cederquist who is a physician specializing in nutrition brings up the point that juice cleanses can severely restrict calorie intake. She even goes so far to state that they are neither effective nor safe. That\u2019s quite the statement. Cleanses may appear to work in the short term because you are heavily restricting calorie intake for a designated time length. The issue comes when once people are done with the cleanse, they tend to put weight right back on. That negates the whole juice cleanse, right? But when you really think about it, it makes sense. A person does a 4-day juice cleanse full of natural sugars, natural calories, and nutrients and then revert right back to all the foods that were eaten before the cleanse. Cleanses are also not full of protein, and so if a person is an avid \u201cjuicer\u201d, cleanses can actually cause a loss of muscle and not fat.<\/p>\n

So with all the research out there, and articles<\/a> titled \u201c6 Potential Dangers of Juice Cleanses and Liquid Diets\u201d<\/em> why do people still do them? Is it just because of the short term \u201cfeel good\u201d results? Maybe, but it could also be a good way to clean out the GI system, but my opinion is to just \u201ccleanse\u201d your diet. I believe a person will see better results that actually stick.<\/p>\n

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  1. http:\/\/health.usnews.com\/health-news\/health-wellness\/articles\/2014\/06\/06\/the-dangers-of-juice-cleanses<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/48887-juice-cleanse-dangers.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have you ever done a juice cleanse? Well I have, and I\u2019m just now learning that apparently they aren\u2019t all what they are hyped up to be. I used it more of a detox, I thought it made my skin clear up and almost felt like hitting a reset button on my diet. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/heal2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/heal2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/heal2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/heal2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/heal2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/heal2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/heal2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/heal2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/heal2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}