The Master Cleanse diet is something we hear a lot about with celebrities who cite their “secret” to a great body. What is the Master Cleanse diet? Well, the Master Cleanse diet is a type of intense detox diet that completely rids the body of harmful toxins by removing all contaminants.

The diet consists of only a homemade lemonade with added cayenne pepper and salt water to aid digestive movement at night. Because the diet removes solids you will find a dramatic weight loss also occurs during the diet but it is not permanent and the diet should not be used to lose weight. It is also a very dangerous diet so if you are considering using the Master Cleanse diet program make sure you talk to your doctor about it first.

Detox is short for detoxification and detox diets are becoming increasingly popular as our busy and hectic lives are causing us to be more careless with the pollutants in our bodies.

Many of the chemicals and toxins we ingest as a part of  our  daily lifestyle such as through junk food, water and polluted air can become deposited in the fat cells around our bodies. If your current diet is also lacking some nutrients it can hinder the process our body undergoes to naturally detoxify itself.

It is therefore a growing occurrence for some people to undergo an annual detox diet to clean up their body of these harmful toxins and refresh themselves. These detox diets can range in intensity and there are other methods as well such as detox pills. If you have been on a detox diet before please let us know why, how it felt during and after wards and what method you used.