A Plan With Staying Power
The Master Cleanse diet, which has been nicknamed the Lemonade Diet, isn’t just a flavor-of-the-month fad in dieting. In fact, the diet has been around since the 1940s when naturopath Stanley Burroughs, an early advocate of natural health and the body’s ability to heal itself, created it to aid in the healing of ulcers. Burroughs had studied toxemia in disease and enforced the idea that a cleansing or detoxifying diet is essential to recovery from any health ailment.
In 1976, Burroughs published Healing for the Age of Enlightenment, a book that addresses several unconventional aspects of health care, including reflexology, color therapy, and the earliest version of the lemonade cleanse. He also published a companion piece called The Master Cleanser, a small 50-page book that simply outlines the diet. Since then, many people have studied and even improved on his original plan, and it has showed steady results for people across the world.
