Stanley Burroughs’s Master Cleanse diet, also a same-titled book published in the 1970s, remains to be a popular fast to nutrition experts and dieters. The good name that it has is not in any way obtained from advertising forms, but amazingly from simple word of mouth.
The Master Cleanse, also tagged as the lemonade diet, is a fast done in not more than 10 days. During the diet, 10 to 12 glasses of a lemonade concoction composed of 2 tablespoons of fresh-squeezed lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of grade-B maple syrup, and 1/10 teaspoon of cayenne pepper needs to be drunk. The serving suggestion is needed to be followed so that the 1,200daily caloric requirement will be met. In addition to the lemonade concentrate, salted purified, non-fluoridated water should be taken in the morning for hydration, as well as an herbal laxative tea in the evening for bowel removal. Another plus point of this diet, aside from its particularity with the measurements and ingredients, is that it has a manual that dieters can follow throughout the slimming process.
From its initial vogue in the 1970s, Master Cleanse has again become a vogue in the present not only on the Internet but especially in Hollywood. Several celebrities have tried the fast themselves and were able to see amazing results, making the news spread through the grapevine over Hollywood stylists, writers, artists, singers, and to faraway assemblages. Perhaps, the perpetrator of its getting back into the limelight is Beyonce Knowles, announcing in her Oprah guesting that she had shed off 20 pounds on the diet in preparation for her role in “Dreamgirls.”
However, the multi-awarded singer-actress is not alone in experiencing the miracle of this diet. Teron Beal, a songwriter and actor-aspirant, said that he tried it and ended up reviving his abs. Another one is Howard Sterns’s sidekick Robin Quivers, who said that he shed off 145 pounds from the former 218 when he tried it in 2004. Personalities like David Blaine, Kristina Wong, and Denzel Washington are also witnesses to the effects of the said diet.
However, there still remains some who do not approve to taking the Master Cleanse diet. One is author-nutritionist Joy Bauer, who said that dieters taking the Cleanse only get half the total amount of calories that they need in a day. She added that the fast will prove effective because people are starving themselves. Medical school director Samuel Klein also commented that these kinds of diets have no approved medical benefits, and that fasting does not aid in detoxifying the body of toxins. He further cautioned that fasting for a long time can deteriorate the muscle and heart tissues, as well as organs like the kidney and liver.
Like its immediate rise to the limelight in the ’70s, the lemonade diet is destined to have more support and approval from people, much more now that it owns the trust of famous names that tried it and emerged as certified converts to the Master Cleanse diet.
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