Arugale posted this in another thread:

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Detox is an abused term, it is probably almost always not enough kcals.

Can someone give me more information...if there is any to give? I've always thought the body would to through a detox, never considered it being because of kcals. I haven't been through a detox yet, but when I switched over from conventional foods to all organic (or at least no ingredients I couldn't pronounce or that were bad for me - so all natural) I went through a detox period. I've found that a lot of studies I've read about to me were somewhat discredited because they were only a 7-14 day thing and I had thought that the detoxing period could happen somewhere in that time. But now I'm wondering if it was just not enough kcals?


Now I have a few other questions...
1. I've never been that into the breakdown of it all...so what exactly are kcals? I generally know what calories are but have never heard them called kcals until I started reading about raw.

2. If anyone has time could someone kind of explain some of the medical type stuff behind all of this to me? I hear so much about the RDA and how this thing turns into this within the body and whatnot and I just get overwhelmed and confused trying to figure out exactly what is being talked about.

Guess that's all

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~Christi~
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AP/NL mama to Jacob 10/25/2006

i'm sorry but WHAT are you talking about?

what do you mean?
not enough kcals?
i don't understand

detox is detox
when u detox, you're not concerned about getting kcals or cals or anything
you're just concerned about catabolizing things that don't belong
these two words detox and kcals seem to be in direct diametric opposition

I didn't make the post so don't ask me. I just quoted something that Arugala said.

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~Christi~
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AP/NL mama to Jacob 10/25/2006

I think that what Arugula meant was that when people think they have Detox Symptoms they are more often just the symptoms of insufficient calorie intake.

1 Calorie = 1 kcalorie
1 calorie = 1/1000 of a kcalorie

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