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The Healthy Lemonade Diet

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The Healthy Lemonade DietThe lemonade diet is one of the diet programs that are popular and widely applied people especially the celebrities. According to nutritionists from Newton, Mass., Aurey Young, MS, RD, LDN, The Lemonade Diet, commonly known as The Master Cleanse Diet was created in 1940 and was introduced again in 1976.

Young said that while this diet was not originally intended to be a weight reduction diet, but the celebrities who have managed to lose weight with the Master Cleanse Diet or Lemonade Diet This diet is helping make it one of the most popular fad diets. 

The Lemonade Diet: How Does It Work?


The Lemonade Diet is designed to remove toxins from your body, which may be caused by an unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and negative thoughts. "The target is to eliminate toxins and waste, and cleaning your kidneys," said Young.

The Lemonade Diet claims to clean up not only your kidneys, but also the digestive tract, glands, joints, muscles, and your blood, helping you lose weight and become healthier in the process.

According to Young, when you are on this diet, every day you are going to drink six glasses of water mixed with organic maple syrup, fresh lemon juice, and cayenne pepper. "There is also a one-quart salt wash, or a saline wash, in the morning where you put two tablespoons of salt in a quart of water (and drink)," he said. People can continue to be on the Lemonade Diet is between a few days up to 14 days.

Pros and Cons of Lemonade Diet : What's in the Health Professionals Say


Young said there was no evidence of any positive effects of undergoing the Lemonade Diet-The Master Cleanse Diet, but there are so many negative effects, such as:

• There is no real need for detoxification. There is no scientific evidence that you need to help the body to detoxify itself. Young said that your liver perform a task that is quite deep cleanse your body of all the toxins, so it does not need to detox.

• You will find it difficult to keep the weight had gone down. When you are on a diet, no doubt that your weight will drop, but it is likely that you will get back every decline has occurred. "Diet is so extreme and people almost always come back to be fat," says Katherine Tallmadge, MA, RD, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association and author of Diet Simple: 192 Mental Tricks, Substitutions, Habits and Inspirations. "The key is you have to switch to a healthier way of life."

• You will suffer from malnutrition. "This diet lacking in calories, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients," said Young. When you do not supply your body with the nutrients it needs, you risk to be deficient in key areas.

• Your metabolism will slow down. "Since there is no protein in the Master Cleanse diet, your body will use muscle as a source of protein," says Young. When you lose muscle, your metabolism slows down, and you will become more difficult to maintain a healthy weight in the long run.

• You may encounter a variety of dangerous health problems. "Diet can be dangerous if you have certain health conditions, such as diabetes," says Young. Even in healthy people, Young added, it may not be wise, because it does not teach you healthy eating habits and can result in a slower metabolism.

If you intend to follow The Lemonade Diet, then you might want to consider it.

Although these diets may help you lose weight in the short term, but you'll reduce weight mainly composed of water and muscle mass, resulting in a slower metabolism and potentially be fatter in the days to come.