Mastercleanse/ Lemonade diet?

[Lathum]

Anyone ever tried it or know someone who has?

It's not really a weight loss fad diet, it's more of a cleanse where basicly you only drink this homemade lemonade mixture for 10 days. It's supposed to break down all the plaque and cleanse your whole system. We are thinking about trying it.

[Eaglesfan27]

How is it different than a weight loss fad diet?

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by Lathum

Anyone ever tried it or know someone who has?

It's not really a weight loss fad diet, it's more of a cleanse where basicly you only drink this homemade lemonade mixture for 10 days. It's supposed to break down all the plaque and cleanse your whole system. We are thinking about trying it.

Detox diets are complete bullshit. A healthy body disposes of the things these diets claim to get rid of naturally. These extreme diets typically just punish your digestive system and end up flushing out important things like the good bacterias in your stomach and they're usually low on things like protein which is vital for a healthy body.

[DaddyTorgo]

mmm cleansing...actually sounds like a good idea lathum. i'd love anymore info on it...i honestly could prolly use a good cleanse - i'm having some GI issues

[sabotai]

Did some googling and it looks like every other starvation fad diet where you drink something for an extended period of time that promises everything except immortality (only simply implies it).

One of the articles I found on Master Cleanse: http://www.everydayhealth.com/blog/z...t-master-scam/

Sounds like nothing but lemon flavored sugar water.

[terpkristin]

If you really want to "clean your system" out you can do it a lot more simply and healthfully. Go vegetarian for a week. Eat whole grains, lots of fiber, lots of greens (the good greens like broccoli and spinach, avoid the iceburg lettuc), beans, some fish if you like.

Just increasing your fiber intake should help "flush" your system, and in a much more natural way than robbing your body of the other nutrients it needs (like most of those detox/"cleansing" things do).

/tk

[Lathum]

The reason why I give more credit to this one is I had a nutrition teacher who is also a doctor and he recomends it and says it is effective.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by terpkristin

If you really want to "clean your system" out you can do it a lot more simply and healthfully. Go vegetarian for a week.

/tk

I've been a vegetarian for 20 years so not sure if that will work

[Ronnie Dobbs2]

The Office: Kelly Kapor's Master Cleanse - Sitcoms - Videogum

[terpkristin]

Originally Posted by Lathum

I've been a vegetarian for 20 years so not sure if that will work

Hah I forgot about that. My bad!

But still, increase your fiber intake..and your water intake, if you're not drinking enough. I don't know about 8 glasses a day, but I do try to finish 1 Nalgene bottle full a day. Infinitely healthier than going on a detox liquid diet.

/tk

[RainMaker]

It's a fraud like most detox plans. Your body naturally cleanses itself. These plans are all the same. You lose a few pounds in water weight and crap a few more times than normal. You'll feel like absolute garbage for most of the week and your body will deprived of some vitamins and minerals it needs. I'm sure they say that light headed feeling you get is from the toxins being released.

Since you're a vegetarian, I doubt you have an issue with your insides. You probably get plenty of fiber. But if you're absolutely convinced you need to clean your colon, pick up some psyllum husk. It's all natural and will flush out your system. It's in basically every fiber product on the market. It beats doing a plan that is hard on your body and leaves you malnutritioned.

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by Lathum

The reason why I give more credit to this one is I had a nutrition teacher who is also a doctor and he recomends it and says it is effective.

Got back to this person and ask him exactly what it is about water, lemon juice, maple syrup and/or cayenne pepper that will break down the "plaque" in your body and flush all of the "toxins" out.

And then ask him, if one of them is so magical, why can't you you just increase your daily intake of water, lemon juice, maple syrup and/or cayenne pepper and get the same effect.

EDIT: The guy sounds like a quisling.

[Eaglesfan27]

Originally Posted by Lathum

The reason why I give more credit to this one is I had a nutrition teacher who is also a doctor and he recomends it and says it is effective.

Kind of scary that a medical doctor says it is effective. Ask the doctor how this diet gets inside the arteries and cleans out the plaque? I'd be really interested in the answer. I'm willing to bet it will dehydrate and drop weight temporarily, but I strongly doubt it has any positive long term value. I'd follow tk's advice for cleansing the body, drink more water and eat more fiber.

[Eaglesfan27]

Dola -

If this teacher is talking about colon plaque, I'd recommend he actually do a surgery rotation. No surgeon has ever seen significant colon plaque. I rarely quote Wikipedia, but here is a good section that is valid and germaine:

Practicing physicians have dismissed the concept of mucoid plaque as a hoax and a "non-credible concept".^[8] A pathologist at the University of Texas School of Medicine addressed Anderson's claims directly, saying that he has "seen several thousand intestinal biopsies and have never seen any 'mucoid plaque.' This is a complete fabrication with no anatomic basis."^[1][9] Another pathologist, Edward Friedlander, has noted during his experience that he has never observed anything resembling a "toxic bowel settlement" and that some online photographs actually depict what he recognises as a blood clot.^[10] Commenting on claims that waste material can adhere to the colon, Douglas Pleskow, a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, stated "That is the urban legend. In reality, most people clear their GI tract within three days."^[14]