My Lemonade Diet

The Master Cleanse Risks

We feel it is our responsibility to inform you of any risk to your health the Master Cleanse may impose. The program should not be used if you have diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, anemia, a serious intestinal obstruction, gallstones, or if you are underweight or have a history with an eating disorder. While the diet is largely safe for people of normal health and fitness levels, it’s a good idea for anyone considering the Lemonade Diet to consult their doctor prior to starting the program. If you have clinical depression, the Master Cleanse program may worsen your depression, so talk to your psychiatrist before going on the diet and if they won’t temporarily increase your dosage, seriously consider not using the program. Women who are pregnant or nursing and children shouldn’t try this diet.

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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.

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