The Master Cleanse diet has gotten a lot of publicity recently. I am sure that many of you heard about the incredible results from this diet.
This is an incredibly stupid diet to go on. First of all, it is basically only water, maple syrup, lemon juice and cayenne pepper. The only thing in this entire lineup that keeps you from starving too quickly is the maple syrup. There is nothing special about adding maple syrup to this diet – you would do the same thing by adding several teaspoons of sugar or honey to the concoction.
After adding lemon juice to the water along with the maple syrup, all you have is a strange lemonade. Nothing in this diet is special!
Finally, you add the cayenne pepper. Other than to make the very strange lemonade concoction extremely nasty, the only other possible effect of the cayenne pepper would possible be to irritate your gastrointestinal tract and possible cause you to have diarrhea.
In short, this diet is very similar to using laxatives and taking some type of laxative tea is also recommended along with the homemade peppery lemonade mix. Some diets encourage the abuse of laxatives in order to promote weight loss. This is a very misguided effort. The only thing that abusing laxatives will do is to increase the amount of water you lose, not to affect the amount of nutrients absorbed.
Dehydration is a distinct possibility with this type of diet. The laxative effects from both the peppery lemonade-with-maple syrup beverage that you create, in addition to the laxative tea that is recommended, can be harmful to your health and well-being.
There are some who argue that this is not actually a diet. They will say that it is intended to only be a detoxification program. While this might be true, it is being promoted as a diet and jot just a cleansing program.
Truthfully, there are many ways to detoxify your body without following dangerous regimens such as the Master Cleanse diet. Fifteen minutes daily in a sauna can do wonders to remove any toxins that might be in your system, and it would be a whole lot safer than trying to follow this dangerous diet that is really nothing more than a fancy way to starve yourself.
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