This is a link to what the salt water diet is.. it's drinking a glass of salt water everyday for 7 days. it is supposed to clean out your system and poop out all the bad stuff. I ate unhealthy for a little and I'm trying to get back on track. Has anyone tried this or does this work?
http://www.natural-cure-alternatives.com/salt-water-cleanse.html
How long ago did you eat this bad stuff? I'm pretty sure you pooped it out already.
most likely, but the cleanse talks about how it cleans your colon and stuff, i wonder if this would be good for me and my overall health
Look, salt water is hypertonic to intracellular fluid, so it pulls water out of your cells. I find it unlikely that it would pull anything other than water out to any significant degree since aquaporins are actually pretty selective in only allowing water molecules through. Sooo, you will lose weight, but it will be water. All you will end up doing is dehydrating yourself, and as soon as you drink some regular water, you will gain it back. You won't lose any fat from this. I strongly advise against it. Just eat better in the future. Your body is pretty good at getting rid of bad stuff (with MSG, artificial sweeteners, and trans fatty acids, and fat soluble chemicals being exceptions). Eat healthy and stay away from unnatural chemicals and you should be fine.
Here is some advice for the future: if a person or website is selling something that claims to "detoxify" your body, stop listening.
drink more regular water
laughingostrich wrote:
Here is some advice for the future: if a person or website is selling something that claims to "detoxify" your body, stop listening.
What are they selling, salt or water.
I followed the directions exactly and gained weight the first time.
I tried once more six months later, from another website, with slightly different directions, and some message board postings that the first method led to weight gain. I had the same result. I gained two pounds both times.
The two pounds came off in about a week, returning me back to the same weight I was before I drank the "salt water cleanse" or "salt flush."
It was one of the stupidest things I ever did. It hurts some, is messy, degrading and, for me, counterproductive.
Salt intake causes water retention, so you will gain weight.
I'm not going to claim to know any of the physiological or science behind it or whether it is healthy or not, but a friend of mine did something similar at the urging of his wife (I think she did it as a joke primarily). Anyway, he drank an epsom salt solution and basically ended up crapping for about 16 hours straight. He said he saw stuff come out of him that he had no idea what it was. Pretty funny to hear him tell it. And he is actually a healthy guy - exercises and eats fairly well. Probably won't hurt you too much, but probably won't help much either?
Before Al Gore invented the interweb, there was a spam fax going around promoting a "miracle diet" for weight-loss.
People dropped several pounds in a couple of weeks and the diet spread like, well, a virus.
On further examination, it turned out that all the foods recommended in the diet were high in salt and none of the weight-loss was related to fat, just water.