Clay and breast milk: 5 dubious trends in healthy lifestyle

Constantly there are new diet and training methods are becoming fashionable, spreads quickly and just as quickly forgotten. Some are based on the achievements of science, others - no. Here are five modern trends in nutrition and physical activity, which should doubt.

People are so concerned about their health and appearance that easily take the most crazy diets and ways to maintain health. These methods are spreading like wildfire, especially when they use celebrities. And if in some diets have a robust corn - health benefits, confirmed by science, the other - a real focal point of delirium, which not only make you healthier, but can also hurt.

Here are five of dubious trends in healthy lifestyle and scientific explanation of their uselessness.

bentonitic clay

Many people, including some celebrities, believe that the bentonite clay helps get rid of toxins. Once it is necessary to clarify meaning bentonite clay that is mined in Greece, parts of Africa and the western United States, rather than the usual red clay for handicrafts.

It's a delusion. Do your body has its own biochemical means destroying toxins.

Kendra Kattelman (Kendra Kattelmann), a dietician and an expert on healthy eating from South Dakota, USA

Despite the fact that the clay contains iron, there is no evidence that it really benefit us. The iron contained in the food, easily absorbed by the body at the expense of protein, which is supplied. As for the clay, it is unclear whether the minerals are absorbed, resulting from it. So leave alone the mud, there are many other ways to provide the body with necessary minerals.

training zone

This method invented by training in prison and is based on a variety of exercises with its own weight. Such high-intensity exercise helps build muscle and burn fat, but this method has its drawbacks.

High-intensity exercise - is stressful for the body.

Stasinos Stavrianeas (Stasinos Stavrianeas), a professor, a specialist in physical education in university Uillametskom

Without preparation and proper equipment perform this entails injury, sprains and tears. So, you may want to choose a gentle program training?

Drinks with activated carbon

This is one of the new trends of cleansing the body. Activated carbon is widely used in cases of poisoning, but recently it began to be added to soft drinks and juices.

Coal is really able to prevent the absorption of toxic substances in the intestine. But he can do the same thing with vitamins, minerals, drugs and other substances that you need. A more coal has side effects such as diarrhea, vomiting and intestinal obstruction. Not very pleasant consequences, is not it?

Breast milk

Adults consume breast milk or make him a cheese and ice cream, citing the fact that the kids just strengthen the immune system via breast milk, it will benefit both adults. However, the benefits of breast milk has not been proven for adults. A receiving milk from an untrusted source, can be infected with HIV, hepatitis and other viral diseases.

Diet werewolf, or a lunar diet

Adhere to this diet by celebrities such as Madonna (Madonna) and Demi Moore (Demi Moore). Its essence is to plan the meal according to the lunar phases. Days of fasting, when only allowed to drink water, fruit and vegetable juices, fall on days of new and full moon.

Intermittent fasting really help you lose weight and may improve health. But how and when you should abstain from food, you need to decide based on the sensations of the body, rather than on the phases of the moon.

What do you think of the trendy diets and training methods? Willing to try them for yourself?