Dubbed as a cleansing and reducing diet, the master cleanse diet is on the top of lists of different kinds of diets.
The hype could also be attributed to how the diet has helped a number of popular celebrities lose weight. But the appeal is also strengthened by how the regimen is really easy for ordinary people to follow.
Alternative medicine practitioner Stanley Burroughs who created the master cleanse diet designed it to be that a special lemonade be drank by the dieters during the entire period of the diet which is usually 10 days.
Together with the lemonade, dieters should also take laxatives to help them effectively cleanse their system of toxins and wastes.
This lemonade is no ordinary kind of lemonade in that it is a mixture of lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper in water. The ingredients were specially selected for their properties.
The lemon has active cleansing properties and also allows the mucous linings to loosen up. These properties are quite similar to that of the cayenne pepper in that it allows for the cleansing of the digestive, respiratory and circulatory tracts and also loosens the mucous linings.
The only ingredient that is of secondary importance is the maple syrup. The maple syrup is only there to increase the calories of the drink. This is especially important in that the people going through the master cleanse diet will not be able to take in any kind of solid food. For this matter, they will need to get their caloric requirements from the lemonade so that they still get the energy that will make them last throughout the day.
You can even decrease the amount of maple syrup you put in or skip it altogether if you want to increase its effectiveness as a reducing diet.
A prime part of the master cleanse diet is the consumption of laxatives by the dieter in order to effectively remove toxins through excretion. Since you will only be on the lemonade for the entire 10 days you will not have any fiber in your system at all. The importance of fiber is that it will make you remove your bowels.
Dieters have two options with regards to the laxatives. The first option is the intake of tea. Tea that contain senna are very effective laxatives. The more popular option though that most dieters take is the salt water flush. The salt water flush is prepared simply by adding organic (no iodine) sea salt to water. The diet will then have to drink this mixture.
It won’t take long for the dieter to want to go to the bathroom so make sure that you have an available one before you go on with your salt water flush. Learn more