The latest trend in diets is the Master Cleanse Diet, proponents of which diet include Demi Moore and Ashton Kutchner.
It is not an easy diet as it severely restricts you, is extremely difficult to keep up and ought to be stuck to for a minimum of ten days. The purpose of this diet is detoxification of the body, cleansing the colon and rejuvenating your health .
Detoxification can be quite painful, as cleansing your body of toxins can leave you feeling quite physically weak, mentally confused, unhappy and irritable. However, once all the toxins are released, apparently you feel buoyant, full of life and jubilant.
The Master Cleanse detox diet involves three stages: Ease In, Lemonade Diet, Ease Out.
To begin with you “ease in” with three days of changes to your diet. You commence on just live food, a 40:60 mixture of fruit and veg. On the second day, you eat only juiced fruits and veg and can have vegetable-based soups. The third day involves just freshly-squeezed orange juice.
The second stage is known as the Lemonade Diet. For at least ten days, you drink just a Master Cleanse lemonade formula mixture, comprising organic grade B maple syrup, fresh-squeezed lemon or lime juice, cayenne pepper, plus spring, distilled, or purified water. It need to have six to twelve glasses of this on a daily basis. You also take a laxative every day.
The third stage is called the Ease-Out step. Basically you reverse the process towards normalisation. You can drink fresh orange or grapefruit juice on the first day, soups and blends on the second day and live food on the third day.
The process is now complete and your body has been cleansed of toxins and you ought to have lost weight. For the first week or two, stick to healthy foods and minimise dairy and meat and dairy.