Of every diet you’ve heard of, The Lemonade Diet is one you probably know very little about. It is a short period, cleansing diet that takes the course of several days (approx.. a month). The purpose of the diet is to detoxify the body of its various impurities that carry a large cause in the contraction of some sicknesses/diseases (e.g. skin irritation, oily foreheads, physical emaciation, etc.) And while on this lemonade diet, your body relies solely on the energy of lemonade, with the nutritious juice it offers, so as to alleviate these contaminants in your body; losing weight is a byproduct of that.

The diet’s key ingredients are cayenne pepper, lemon juice extracts (of course), and syrup (maple). There are virtually no carbohydrates involved during the period of the lemonade diet, so you’ll be looking at a mixture of these three ingredients for about 30 days.

In addition to this part of the diet, you’ll ascribe to salt water everyday, as well as laxative tea; all to ensure that there is proper cleansing of the body (as mentioned above).

The essence of this diet relies upon the cleansing of bodily toxins to allow the digestive tract to rest (so it won’t work as hard). This leads to the expenditure or “burning” of stored fatty acids, without decreasing any somatic or central insulin levels (in non-medical terms, you’re perfectly safe losing weight under this diet). Speaking of insulin, this diet is not recommended for those who are diabetics, as lemon juice extracts may lead to high level acidosis/ketosis and cause other health problems.

There is also the lemonade diet in pill form which makes the whole process much easier to do than the lemonade cleanse Beyonce or Ashton Kutcher did.

There is some false information being spread out there in Internet land that Beyonce used the lemonade diet pill to lose weight…but Beyonce did NOT use the lemonade diet pill. She used a version of the original Master Cleanse to drop pounds for her role in Dreamgirls, but the lemonade diet pill is different.

There are a lot of versions of the Master Cleanse because it is so daggone old (over 60 years) that people have had a lot of time to “tweak” it. So this has resulted in a lot of confusion about celebrities such as Liv Tyler and Robin Quivers (Howard Stern show) and what specific version of the cleanse they used to lose weight. Some people are even referring to it as the Beyonce cleanse, Beyonce diet or Beyonce lemonade diet.

What is the difference between the original Master Cleanse and the lemonade diet pill?

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