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Want glowing skin like Gwyneth’s, or a body like Beyonce’s? Then follow the latest trend in celebrity circles, and try a detox diet. According to Hollywood’s hottest gossip, stars are shedding both pounds and poisons from their bodies by going on radical mainly liquid fasts. No-one says it’s easy, and the weight loss tends to be temporary. But many stars will say that a good detoxification pays real dividends, improving their skin, upping their energy levels and supporting their liver and kidney function.
Sceptics suggest that there’s no need for detox diets, and that the organs of healthy bodies function perfectly well without the need for lemon or carrot-juice “cleanses”. It is also a fact that, on a liquid-only diet, most of the weight loss is liquid too, and the pounds will return once normal service is resumed.
But there’s something appealing about the idea that you can look a bit like a stunning celebrity, if you follow the stunning celebrity’s personal diet plan.
Take Gwyneth Paltrow. She always looks good on the red carpet, and is a glowing advertisement for healthy eating. She has said that she likes to fast and detox for a week a couple of times a year to cleanse her system. OUT go all dairy, caffeine and processed foods, and IN comes a juice made of beetroot, carrot, apple and ginger, plus broccoli and arugula soup and – reportedly – “chicken teriyaki without the soy or sugar.”
Victoria Beckham (aka Posh Spice) is another detox devotee, who like Gwyneth spends a week at a time on her body-cleansing regime. Victoria, it’s said, favors an intake of hot lemon water, enlivened by organic fruits and vegetables. It doesn’t sound much more restrictive than her usual diet of brown rice, soy beans and steamed fish – and the big treat snacks of nuts and seeds.
You might think that Beyonce adores her food. But every now and then she follows the Master Cleanse diet, which is also known as the lemonade or maple syrup diet. This involves the ingestion of a special recipe featuring hot water, lemon juice and maple syrup, for days at a time. Beyonce told interviewer Ellen Degeneres that she followed the Master Cleanse to lose 20 pounds for her role in Dreamgirls, and it wasn’t easy. “I was very hungry,” she recalled. “Therefore I was EVIL.”
Actress Anne Hathaway, like Beyonce, decided to cleanse her system with a lemon juice recipe – hers was concocted by celebrity trainer David Kirsch. In Anne’s case, 48 hours of radical detox was in order to look her best for the 2009 Golden Globes.
Detox devotees say that the regime eliminates so many refined and acid-forming foods that the digestive system is given a chance to rest and become revitalized. They even claim that a detox gives such a pleasant shock to the system that previous cravings for fatty foods such as chips and chocolate will disappear forever.
But even though so many celebrities swear by the benefits of detoxing, dieticians and toxicologists warn against going too far. The near starvation involved in some of the diets is never good, they say, and can even cause the metabolism to slow down, which slows weight loss. And, left alone to get on with things, the body’s organs do a pretty good job of “cleansing” and “revitalizing” all by themselves. So though our hottest, trendiest Hollywood stars may think they’ve beaten Mother Nature, she can detox all by herself.
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