Can exercise detoxify the body? Health experts are skeptical

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Can exercise detoxify the body? Health experts are skeptical

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/exercise-detoxify-body-health-experts-skeptical-133820456.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/xfVAQt8u7r485f5JsmE95w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-12-17T144239Z_1_CBRE8BG14V600_RTROPTP_2_ISRAEL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Woman practices yoga during a mass floating event in the Dead Sea" align="left" title="Woman practices yoga during a mass floating event in the Dead Sea" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (Reuters) - The word &quot;detoxification&quot; is flung around the fitness community as frequently as kettlebells are swung. Yoga teachers regularly speak of detoxifying twists, aerobics instructors of detoxifying sweat, dieters of detoxifying fasts. But health professionals are skeptical. &quot;If you start talking about exercising to detoxify, there's no scientific data,&quot; said Dr. Elizabeth Matzkin, chief of women's sports medicine at Harvard Medical School. &quot;The human body is designed to get rid of what we don't need.&quot; The same applies to fasting. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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