Fast Diet | Is The Master Cleanse Lemon Juice Fast Truly Safe?

Is The Master Cleanse Lemon Juice Fast Truly Safe?

Many celebrities, such as Beyonce, have tried and discussed their experiences with the Master cleanse, also known as the Lemon Juice Fast. It is certainly a “fast diet” in both senses of the word: it involves actual fasting, and it works very fast, in the sense that it causes people to lose significant amounts of weight very quickly. Since this website is all about reviewing and exposing problems with various fast diets, it’s now time to address this particular fasting plan in this article.

The first problem with this diet is that even though you can indeed lose a lot of weight very quickly (which is true of almost any fasting program), as soon as you resume eating normally again, the weight will typically come back. (Indeed, numerous people gain back even more weight once they resume eating normally.)

The diet, which is a liquid diet (also known as a liquid fasting diet), involves drinking a mixture containing specific amounts of lemon juice, water, cayenne pepper and organic maple syrup (and nothing else) for a specific period of time, often anywhere from seven to ten days (although some people do it for even longer than that, which can be very dangerous indeed). The rationale behind using the lemon juice in the mixture is that lemons are believed to alkalize your body to help return it to a healthy pH level.

While lemons and lemon juice certainly provide numerous health benefits to users, the main reason that people tend to lose so much weight on this diet is that they are consuming so few calories for the duration. And, as you well know, there are many dangers associated with these kinds of starvation diets. For starters, the dieters often experience malnutrition, weakness, dizziness and other health problems. Also, for an individual who may be susceptible to developing an eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa, then going on a diet like this is really playing with fire and potentially opening the door to some seriously self destructive eating patterns.

Plus, as is true of almost any fasting regimen or fast diet that is not being directly supervised by a doctor, while the initial results may be quite dramatic indeed, they almost never last for any significant period of time. During a fast, the brain signals the body to go into starvation mode, conserving energy and calories by slowing down the metabolism. When the person resumes eating normally, the primary reason that the weight comes back so quickly is that the master cleanse (or lemon juice fast) had previously caused their metabolism to slow down to nearly a halt and it typically takes some time for the metabolic rate to go back to normal.

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