Don't juice cleanse
Similarly, you're probably going to want to skip out on juice cleanses."Any weight you lose is because you drastically cut your calorie intake for a time," said registered dietitian Lainey Younkin, MS, RD, LDN, founder of Lainey Younkin Nutrition. Plus, as she points out, juice doesn't actually "cleanse" anything — you're basically just drinking a bunch of sugar.
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Don't try to change your pH
"There is no one single food that can change the pH of your blood — and if it did, it'd be because it was poisonous and you were dying," says English. She further explains that the cells in our body all operate within different tight pH ranges — and if those change even a little bit, they stop working. So that alkaline diet? Yeah, it's probably not going to do much.
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