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Is the Lemonade Cleanse Also a Reducing Diet?
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The Master Cleanse Diet
I have personally done this cleanse for 20 days, 17 days and twice more
for 10 days each. I have counseled my wife three times, twenty-seven year
old son twice, and in January 2004, have counseled more than 110 people
on the Master Cleanse bulletin board, which has much more information
and many personal experiences. Click here to view it.
Please believe me when I say that the Master Cleanse by Stanley Burroughs
is, in my opinion, the fastest and most effective way to regain your vitality
and to feel the joy of living again.
Never mind that it will help you lose weight and give you astounding
energy. Although I have included my own summary of points for the Master
Cleanse, I recommend you buy the book.
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Throughout the country thousands of people have done the Master Cleanse Program and will say that it really does work! They will tell you that the Master Cleanse (or the Lemonade Diet) is the fastest and most effective way to regain your vitality and to feel the joy of living again. It will also reset your taste buds and eating habits, so that it will be easier for you to adopt a healthy diet when you are done with the program.
You can also purchase just the Ingredients Replacement Kit which contains all the items above except the book. So you can repeat the Master Cleanse whenever necessary or continue it for as long as you want.
BUY Master Cleanse Ingredient Replacement Kit
Or order Individual kit items separately.
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Brief Summary
For a minimum of 10 days, drink a mixture of:
- 2 Tablespoons lemon or lime juice (approx. ½ lemon),
- 2 Tablespoons genuine (organic is best) Grade B maple syrup (Not maple-flavored
sugar syrup or syrup from companies that use formaldehyde to process
the syrup),
- 1/10 Teaspoon cayenne pepper (red pepper) or to taste, and
- Water, medium hot or cold as preferred.
Combine the juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper in a 10 oz glass and
fill with water — distilled, reverse osmosis, or spring fed, but
not tap water.
Use fresh (organic) lemons or limes only, never canned lemon or lime
juice nor frozen lemonade or frozen juice.
For diabetics, there is a section on using molasses rather than maple
syrup in the beginning of the cleanse. Any diabetic should read the book
and consult their doctor before beginning the cleanse.
Drink six to twelve glasses of this lemonade mixture daily. No food is
eaten nor any vitamin supplements taken during the cleanse. If you get
hungry, have another glass of lemonade. After all, this is also called
the "lemonade diet."
If you are overweight, you may use less maple syrup. If you are underweight,
use more maple syrup if you wish. If you are worried about losing weight,
"... The only things you can possible lose are mucus; waste, and
disease. Healthy tissue will not be eliminated."
Do not vary the amount of lemon juice per glass and be sure to drink
at least six glasses of lemonade a day. You can drink more water, if you
want.
Enhance Your Elimination
This is a cleanse as opposed to a weight loss diet. So, you need to ensure
you are eliminating the toxins that are being loosened in your system.
Cravings, aches, pains, mental irritability and tiredness will turn on
as your toxins are mobilized. To eliminate these unpleasant sensations,
you need to be sure you have two, three, or more bowel movements a day.
Drink a laxative herb tea each evening. You can find it in your local
health food store. I recommend senna tea or a blend with senna in it.
(Senna is an herb that promotes bowel movement.) The kind I've bought
warn you not to drink more than two cups per day.
Each morning on an empty stomach, add two teaspoons of sea salt to a
full quart of luke-warm water. Do not use ordinary iodized salt as it
will not work properly. Drink the entire quart of salt water first thing
in the morning. "Chug" this — drink it as fast as possible.
Within an hour several bowel movements will likely occur. (You'll need
to be by a toilet for half an hour to an hour.) If you do not have several
bowel movements, try a little more salt in the water until it works.
Drink the herb laxative tea at night to loosen and the salt water each
morning to wash it out. If you can't drink the salt water in the morning,
drink the herb laxative tea at night and in the morning.
Breaking Your Fast
Breaking a long fast is very, very important. You should ease your way
back to solid food after one or two additional days of juices, orange
or grapefruit. If you are going back to raw fruits and vegetables, you
may do so on the afternoon of the second day.
If you have been a meat eater and/or milk products consumer, shift to
cooked vegetable soup on the afternoon of the second day and a salad for
dinner. Keep the lemonade drink as your breakfast drink after that. Of
course, you would do better with the least amount of meat and no milk
products as they are very productive of mucus and hinder digestion and
absorption of nutrients.
Detox Symptoms
Detoxifying literally means removing poisons from your body. Once these
poisons are gone, you will feel energetic, vital, happy and healthy. It
is the poisons that make us feel tired, mentally confused, irritable,
unhappy, depressed and ill. Consequently you should look forward to detoxification.
Unfortunately, when the toxins are mobilized, they will bring about those
unpleasant feelings and tempt you to quit the cleanse before you are through.
So, you need to understand the symptoms of detoxification and ensure that
you drink your laxative tea and salt water to stimulate elimination of
those toxins.
My experience with the cleanse and with various people doing it has taught
me that whatever symptom I experienced one day, it would be gone the next
morning with my bowel movements. It is nevertheless helpful to know when
you are detoxifying because it helps you to get through that symptom to
know it will be gone tomorrow.
I have grouped the detox symptoms I and others have had into three groups:
Cravings — I have only known one or two people to be hungry on
this cleanse. Drinking more lemonade or water handles that. I have, however,
observed that people on the cleanse crave what they are detoxifying. Proof
that this is true is that the cravings usually go away the next morning
with bowel movements. You can crave anything when detoxifying, but most
likely you will experience cravings for the most toxic foods, such as
pizza, hamburgers, barbeque ribs, etc.
Tiredness — When your body fights toxins, whether from detoxifying
or an infection, it diverts energy into healing and away from the energy
you use to work and play. On my first 20 day cleanse, I was not tired
except on the fifteenth day. The next morning, I experienced heat in my
bowel movements, an indication that acidic toxins were being eliminated.
I also lost all sense of tiredness.
Irritability — This includes the desire to "just chew something
solid."
Physical aches, pains, nausea, vomiting, etc. These are the most severe
reactions and only occur where a person is severely toxic, only a small
percentage of people experience these. Fortunately, these have gone away
after only a day or two in every case I have heard about.
A Special Note on Headaches
In talking to people doing the cleanse, I've learned that people with caffeine addiction (coffee, soft drinks, etc.) experience headaches for the first 2 - 4 days. If they are too bad, end the cleanse and come off the caffeine first.
Final Note
I hope you will have the same wonderful increase in mental clarity, health, energy and positive mental attitude that I and others have found. If I can be of any additional help, please post them on the bulletin board. We try to answer them in 24 - 48 hours.
Sincerely,
Peter Glicman
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