Taylor Swift told Access Hollywood earlier this week that she’s not getting on board with the detox trend that many of Hollywood’s starlets are trying.
“I don’t really do anything [like that],” Taylor said at the Costume Institute Gala Benefit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday night in New York City when asked if she’d ever taken part in a detox cleanse.
Good girl. Wish other celebrities shared her point of view.
But that’s not the case. Juice fasts and detox diets are all the range — and their popularity is being fueled by Gwyneth Paltrow, Beyonce, Donna Karan and other bold-face names.
The latest to join the ranks is Salma Hayek. So disappointed to see this respected actress get behind a new company called Cooler Cleanse. It turns out that Salma is a veteran of the juice cleanse and has used the regimens to prepare for big events — from walking the red carpet to walking down the aisle (which she did recently).
Salma paired up with long-time friend and juice master Eric Helms (no relation to me!), the founder of Juice Generation, to bring her detox diet right to your door step. The products are currently only available in New York, but they’ll be shipping nationally in June.
For $58 per day, you can have the fresh-pressed fruit and vegetable juices delivered every morning for a 3, 5 or even 30-day detox. The varieties include a green juice with cucumber and spinach, a grapefruit mint, a red juice with beets and apples, carrot juice, young coconut water, and nut milks sweetened with dates. The company also offers a four-course raw food cleanse made by a vegan chef for $62 a day.
The Cooler Cleanse site features all sorts of praise for the program, including an article that quotes Vogue staffers who say they use the drinks to get in shape for the summer “with visions of string bikinis, exposed thighs and cropped tees…”
I much prefer this article in Vogue magazine that does a great job of debunking some of the myths about detox diets. Here’s a summary of how they’ve broken down the claims and busted them wide open… [click to continue…]
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