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Some Thoughts About Body Detox

May 6, 2009 by Isabelle S. Mihajlov  
Filed under Weight Loss

If there were a generation to give, en masse and complimentary, decades-long supplies of body detox, it would be those of us who were in between the Generation X-ers and these new Millennial children. The Millenials were born during the era of abstinence education and anti-drug commercials that involved sweetners deflating into flattened puddles in the middle of their living rooms. They grew up without having to fight over whether we were descended from apes and have no idea what we mean when we talk about cigars or blue dresses.

Part of the rationalization behind getting detox– one of the central arguments you’ll hear on health and fitness websites, on day-time talk shows, maybe even at the YMCA when you’re taking your kid to a swim class or something– is that these people want to be able to live longer. I don’t know whether that’s really a good thing. This is an over-populated country as it is, and in a certain sense it’s rather selfish for any of us to want to live longer.

Failure to do so will rob those Millenials of their parents. And by “their parents,” my friends, I mean us. Our last-ditch efforts to hold onto the ripple-effects of the sixties and seventies (since we were born in the seventies and eighties) is resulting in higher obesity rates and dramatic increases in health problems like heart disease, lung conditions, hypertension, and diabetes. And the last time I checked, none of us were getting any younger.

In essence, mine is the last generation to need to make sure our hearts aren’t going to give out by the time we’re thirty-five. Body detox is one way to help ensure that.

Life expectancy across the country is rising, due in large part to the dramatic decrease in infant mortality. On the other hand, obesity, Diabetes, and hypertension are all also on the rise. That means that there will be more people eventually in hospitals for things that– at least in the three cases mentioned just now– there will be more people in those hospitals. If you could decrease the possibility of being in that position just by taking a body detox treatment, wouldn’t you?

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