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- noun informal A person on
detox ; somebody attempting togive up drugs .
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detox + -er
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Unless you have an actual illness (coeliac disease or Crohn's, for example) - as opposed to being told that you should cut out bread by the "nutritional therapist" in your local health food shop - ruling out whole food groups, whether it be dairy or wheat, for whatever length of time, is unlikely to provide the kind of health nirvana to which the detoxer aspires.
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