For the life of me, I cannot figure out how you might have understood anything in that article that was related to any benefits to "detoxing" (whatever that means). Did I miss something?

Also--- and perhaps it was my frame of mind when I read it--- the essay seems to focus on how we can become slaves to our scales and to what extremes some of us will go to achieve a weight that we perceive to be desirable.

What was your reading of the essay?

Whammy