From Gwyneth Paltrow to Beyoncé, female celebrities tend to popularize diets that draw massive followers because these diets “miraculously” shed pounds after pregnancy, or turn ample curves into svelte figures for blockbuster movie roles. The question is, what are some of these diets, and can they work for you at home (sans the luxury of a private chef, health trainer and a limitless budget)?
Let’s take a look, for example, at this Lemonade Diet, also known as the Master Cleanse Diet made famous by Beyoncé. It is perhaps the simplest, most affordable, do-it-yourself weight loss diet. All the diet requires is that you mix 2 tablespoons of lemon juice or lime juice, 2 tablespoons of real maple syrup, 1/10 tablespoon of cayenne pepper and 8 ounces of water in a glass, and then consume nothing else but 6-10 glasses of this mixture daily, for several weeks.
In reality, this Lemonade Diet was created by Stanley Burroughs over 50 years ago to cleanse the body of toxins, not as the weight loss tool it has recently become. Members of the medical community remain skeptic about the diet, because of such side effects as dizziness and, in severe cases, vomiting. However, proponents of this diet say that these side effects are not always detrimental and are not caused by a lack of vitamins, since the lemon juice provides necessary vitamins for the body. They argue that these side effects prove that toxins in the bloodstream are being purged by the diet; drinking laxative tea to stimulate bowelmovements, upon experiencing the side effects, should counter them.
Overall, the Lemonade Diet is an extremely easy diet to fix, but it can be an extremely difficult one to endure for weeks. The jury is out on just how safely you can maintain this diet without the help of a nutrition expert and, if you’re not careful, you might be tempted to binge on food—and gain back your newly lost weight—once this Lemonade Diet process ends. On the plus side, the Lemonade diet does aid such
health problems as allergies, asthma, skin disorders and high cholesterol. Averaging out our assessments of the diet’s
practicality (2.0), effectiveness (3.0), and safety (1.0), we give it 2.0 out of 5 health stars.
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