What is the Master Cleanse Diet?
The master cleanse diet is commonly known as the lemonade diet or the maple syrup diet. It is an diet of choice for many, due to it being relatively low in cost and can shed up to 2lbs of fat off you a day. It does a great job in eliminating toxins from your body, as well as removing cravings for bad foods, alcohol, drugs and tobacco.
The basis of all disease is a build up of toxins within your body. The toxins build up due to bad diet, lack of exercise, negative emotions and stress. Keeping your body clear of bad toxins will help our energy increase and assures good health for many years to come.
How does it work?
The master cleanse diet has the same principles as most detox diets, to detoxify the body of harmful toxins. Because it is such an extreme diet, where no solid food is consume, people who use it regularly say that it helps them refocus their healthy eating habits and eliminate cravings for foods that are classed as bad.
What is in the Diet?
The ingredients of the diet are very straight forward and can be picked up from your local stores. The main thing you need to remember when buying the products is to make sure you get organic products. If you do not this defeats the whole object of the diet, as you are trying to move away from foods containing pesticides.
- Organic lemons are used, this have to be fresh not concentrated lemon juice as this is full of sugars and preservatives. Lemons are packed full of vitamins and minerals.
- Grade B maple syrup is also full of vitamins and minerals. This can not be pancake syrup.
- Cayenne pepper adds the recipe a bit of a kick. Most importantly it helps break up the mucus, melt fat and increase healthy blood flow. It is also a great source of vitamins B and C which are known as super vitamins, thanks to there many benefits on the body.
- Sea salt - unrefined for its laxative properties.
An Optional extra that you can incorporate into the master cleanse diet is laxative tea. These work along side the sea salt to increase the eliminations of toxins.
How do you make it?
Once you have all of your organic ingredient, follow the simple instructions below to make your master cleanse drink. It is more practical to make your whole days worth of lemonade, rather than just one glass at the time, so the measurements below are for around 8 glasses.
- the juice of 4 lemons
- 12 tablespoons of Grade B maple syrup
- 1.8 liters of filtered water
- Around 1/2 to 1 tablespoon of Cayenne pepper, but the more your mouth can handle the better.
- All you need to do once you have all the ingredients prepared is to mixed them all really well together. Each time you go to have a glass, make sure you give it a shake as the cayenne pepper likes to settle on the bottom.
You are suppose to drink around 8-12 glasses of this recipe per day, NO OTHER food or drink should be consume during this time or you will not see any results. Do this cleanse for 10 days, but people have been known to do it for 40 days with no harm to their body.
At bed time, it is advise this is when you have the sea salt and/or laxative tea. This will help keep your bowel movements coming along and aid the cleanse. For the sea salt, have around 1 teaspoon of salt to one liter of water. Laxative tea can be found from most supplement stores.
Who should use the Master Cleanse?
Any responsible adult can par take in the master cleanse, it should be carried out a few times a year to give your body a thorough detox. Especially when you are sick with a cold or flu as this cleanse will get your back on your feet again in no time.
If you struggle with weight, you can try the master cleanse as it does melt away the fat within your body. Although make sure you research the cleanse thoroughly as when you go back to solid food again you may put weight back on if you do not know how you should be eating to keep the weight off.