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"Detoxing Tea Weight Loss" just overpriced laxatives pushed by endorsers on social media - pRICE cUBE - 04-30-2016
http://www.racked.com/2016/4/27/11502276/teatox-instagram
All of these brands more or less sell the exact same product: tea that comes in colorful pouches and breaks down into two categories, morning tea (the "skinny" tea) and evening tea (the "detoxifying" tea). The ingredients are essentially the same, regardless of brand — some combination of green, chamomile, and peppermint tea leaves; licorice, dandelion, rhubarb, ginger, and ginseng roots; and cloves, cinnamon bark, and dried goji berries. A 14-day starter pack usually sells for around $30, a 28-day pack for about $55, and a deluxe combination pack somewhere between $100 and $120.
On the packaging, these brands promise the tea "promotes fat burning," "reduces bloating," "makes you feel light," and "cleans the digestive system." In other words: these teas act as laxatives. The primary ingredient in nearly every single evening "detoxifying" tea is senna, an FDA-approved plant found in Ex-Lax and a number of its stimulant laxative competitors.
"It can cause cramping, indigestion, dehydration, and is also just not particularly pleasant," says Scott Gavura, an Ontario-based pharmacist and writer at the medical watchdog site Science-Based Medicine. "Taking a laxative when you think you're bloated or overweight is not something you want to do from a medical perspective. That's not healthy to yourself, and if you take it for a long period of time, it can be disruptive for your digestion and to the bacterial flora in your colon."
A product like a teatox is "problematic because it's not science-based," says Jim White, a registered dietician with the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics. "It also promises quick fixes, which is what worries me." As the Guardian noted in a much-shared piece about the myth of the "detox," so-called detoxification is just a "pseudo-medical concept designed to sell you things."
Re: "Detoxing Tea Weight Loss" just overpriced laxatives pushed by endorsers on social media - Numo - 04-30-2016
People will buy just about anything if it's priced high enough.
Re: "Detoxing Tea Weight Loss" just overpriced laxatives pushed by endorsers on social media - freeradical - 04-30-2016
Snake oil abounds...
- Nutritional supplements
- Organic food
- Candling
- Colonic irrigation
And much much more...
Re: "Detoxing Tea Weight Loss" just overpriced laxatives pushed by endorsers on social media - ka jowct - 04-30-2016
There was a green tea-based weight-loss product that put people in the hospital; some needed liver transplants. It contained just insane amounts of whatever substance in green tea is good when consumed in normal amounts.
Re: "Detoxing Tea Weight Loss" just overpriced laxatives pushed by endorsers on social media - Lew Zealand - 04-30-2016
detox = bull**** scam to separate you from your money
Re: "Detoxing Tea Weight Loss" just overpriced laxatives pushed by endorsers on social media - Filliam H. Muffman - 04-30-2016
Colon-Blow