Liver Cleansing Diet

The Liver Cleansing Diet by Dr. Sandra Cabot, was one of the first detox books written. After release it quickly became a huge bestseller.

After seeing numerous overweight patients, many with sluggish metabolisms, Dr Cabot decided that liver function was impaired - due to poor diet and nutrition. Dr Cabot claimed that improving liver function led to weight loss. After 2 years of working successfully with 1540 patients she professes a 100% success rate.

Liver Cleanse - Cure for all ills?

The following symptoms could benefit from a liver cleanse:

• Abdominal bloating
• Obesity
• Poor digestion
• Frequent fatigue
• Headaches
• Unpleasant moods
• Bad breath and coated tongue
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Sluggish metabolism
• Overburdened immune system
• Excessive body heat
• High cholesterol
• Gall bladder disease
• Fatty liver
• Allergies
• High blood pressure
• Sugar cravings
• Intolerance to alcohol
• Excess alcohol intake
• Inability to lose weight

Dr Cabot seems to attribute poor liver function to a vast range of symptoms, some of which could be diagnosed by any number of conditions.

Liver Cleansing in Brief

• The diet is strict, with all vegetables to be eaten raw.
• Recipes are included.
• Supplements are recommended.

The premise of this diet is good, but it seems to be too simplistic to blame a single organ for most people’s weight and health issues. Detox diets are useful, but don’t necessary aid or teach you in forming lifelong good eating habits. There is also a lack of scientific evidence proving that detoxifying diets are as effective as they are claimed.

If you have to continually ‘reach’ for a detox diet, then something in your everyday nutrition and lifestyle is not right.