About The Master Cleanse Diet

What is the 'Master Cleanse Diet'?

The Master Cleanse Diet, also known as the Lemonade Diet, consists of a liquid concoction made of maple syrup, lemonade, and cayenne pepper. You drink this, doing a fast for ten days. This is the only substance, liquid or food, that you consume over those ten days, so essentially it's a fast.

What makes the lemon,syrup or pepper combination so special?

The lemon, cayenne pepper and maple syrup all serve different purposes. The cayenne pepper, there's an element in cayenne pepper, capsaicin, that has been known to slightly raise metabolism a little bit. When we have something that's very spicy and we sweat, you know, you're burning some calories doing that. The maple syrup gives you some calories, some glucose, because we need glucose for the brain. The lemon juice makes it palatable.

Are a cleanse, detox, and fast the same thing?

They are not official words. They are the words that authors and fad diet experts like to throw around, because they sound like they are really going do something to your body. Detox is in a fast. A fast can be the same thing, depending on what types of liquids, or what types of foods or what types of restrictions, are on that fast or that detox.

What does the Master Cleanse Diet claim to do?

Master Cleanse reports to make you happy, possibly cure diseases or prevent diseases, give you more energy and provide you with a nutritionally sound diet.

How do people lose weight on the Master Cleanse?

This form of weight loss works, because you are on a very low calorie diet when you start the master cleanse. When you are on a low calorie diet, you are going to lose weight in the beginning. It's not completely starvation, but you're definitely taking in fewer calories than your body needs. So you're kind of going into that halfway starvation mode depending on how low your calories really are.

Why are cleanses and detox diets so popular?

These detoxes, like Master Cleanse is very popular, because we have that sense that our bodies are full of toxins and that we need to get rid of them and we've got to do some kind of diet or fast or detox or cleanse to get rid of them. And it sounds very scientific, it sounds like it's going to make us healthy, so we try it.

What role does Hollywood play in the Master Cleanse Diet's popularity?

Any celebrity that losses weight quickly, usually losses a significant amount of weight. We all want to know how he or she did it. And when we find out how he or she did it, we try that.

Why is the Master Cleanse considered a fad diet?

The Master Cleanse is considered a fad diet because it's very restrictive. There are not a lot of foods on the diet that you can actually eat. It's mainly a liquid diet and it's not a diet that you can do long term.