master cleanse detox?
Fruit
Fresh or frozen fruit.
Vegetables
All fresh vegetables. Vegetables thought to be particularly good detox foods include broccoli, cauliflower, broccoli sprouts, onions, garlic, artichokes, beets, red and green vegetables.
Rice
All forms of rice, including rice cakes, rice crackers and rice pasta. Brown rice is typically preferred.
Other Grains
Quinoa, amaranth, millet, and buckwheat can be used instead of rice. They can be purchased at a health food store or in some grocery stores.
Beans
Split yellow and green peas and lentils are easiest to digest and require the least soaking time. Other good options include kidney beans, pinto beans, mung beans, garbanzo beans (chickpeas) and adzuki beans.
Nuts and Seeds
Unsalted nuts or seeds can be sprinkled over salads or eaten as a snack. Good options include flaxseed, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, cashews and walnuts. Nut butters are permitted. Peanuts and peanut butter are usually not recommended.
Oil
Extra-virgin olive oil is a preferred oil.
Condiments
Vegetable salt, sea salt, vinegar, soy sauce or tamari, all herbs or spices.
Tea
Herbal teas, green tea.
Other Beverages
Water, lemon water, pure unsweetened fruit and vegetable juices, rice milk
Daily Detox Do's
Drink a minimum of 8 glasses of water per day, warm or room temperature.
Take the time to chew food well, especially grains.
Pretty dumb thing if you ask me. I wouldn't recommend any sort of "purging cure" to anybody - your body pretty much does it by itself, no need to mess it up.
Go for it.
If you want to waste your time and effort.
master cleanse detox? Is that a new rap singer?
About the kindest thing I can say about it is that it's unecessary.
At worst, it's just silly, and in some circumstances dangerous.
Other opinions will vary.
Original Post by santonacci:
About the kindest thing I can say about it is that it's unecessary.
At worst, it's just silly, and in some circumstances dangerous.
Other opinions will vary.
Mine would be harsher but I seem to be running out of vitriol this evening. I need a recharge.
Its pointless and can make your really ill.
Google "Master Cleanse" and you will find loads of info, forums and many people who do it and continue to do it year after year.
This isn't the place to get any positive answers about it.
Good luck!
Your body has a built in master cleanse - it's called your liver...
All I can say is... my girlfriend tried this last year and had the most wretched burning diarrhea the entire time she was on it. She didn't lose any weight, either. If you have the patience, will power, and pain tolerance (not to mention all the free time spent lazing around your house waiting to run to the toilet) then go for it. My friend claimed it made her feel better, but honestly I think she was just feeling better (a) not to have diarrhea anymore, and (b) had spent a week not eating total crap like she usually did.
When I did it, I was about 120lbs and gained weight on it! I stayed on for about a week and when I went back to normal eating, I had really bad diarrhea too and stomach was killing me.
Original Post by redkitty:
Google "Master Cleanse" and you will find loads of info, forums and many people who do it and continue to do it year after year.
This isn't the place to get any positive answers about it.
Good luck!
You can also find loads of sites telling you how to starve yourself complete with forums and support groups.
Since spirochete is not up to the task of properly pouring out the vitriol on this today, I will gladly fill in.
The Master Cleanse Detox is by far one of the stupidest excuses for a health regimen that exists today. It is based on the pseudo science that was originally proposed by John Harvey Kellogg. He propounded the theory that a large number of health problems were associated with a "toxic colon", caused by eating the wrong foods. He was a vegetarian, so naturally meat was among the wrong foods (I don't have anything against vegetarianism, just including this as background). The problem with believing in this theory is that it is simply wrong. He claimed that due to the bad foods we eat, that build up in your colon occurs and that your colon basically becomes a toxic dump that needs to be purged. His answer was yogurt enemas (doesn't that sound fun). The fact is, however, that no such build up occurs and when the basis of the toxicity is shown to be false, how can the rest of his theory, which is based on this falsehood be sound. He was also famous for his belief that sexual activity of any kind was bad for your health. This just shows what a quack he was. The digestive tract is not subject to becoming toxic, due to the natural detoxification capabilities of the body, which primarily involves the liver and kidneys. The problems with colon cleansing regimens like the Master Cleanse are many, but here are just a few:
1. There is no way to get proper nutrition from lemonade made with lemon juice, cayenne pepper, maple syrup, and water. It is simply impossible because it contains no essential fatty acids, no protein, very little if any complex carbohydrates, and is severely lacking in vitamins and minerals required for healthy living.
2. Along with the lemonade, which is supposed to sustain you, you are supposed to drink salt water (which has a laxative effect) and I have also seen where you are supposed to drink senna tea (another powerful laxative). The problems with daily consumption of laxatives is that while you may have a clean colon at the end, you have also destroyed the many helpful bacteria that reside in your colon that are actually good for you. So this laxative abuse really screws up your digestion, which relies on these good bacteria to work properly.
So basically, the Master Cleanse Detox plan is a prescription for malnutrition, laxative abuse and a screwed up digestive tract.
Anyone who claims otherwise does have toxic crap in their bodies that they need to get rid of, but it is not in the colon, but where their brains are supposed to be.
A healthy balanced diet that includes proper amounts of fiber from whole grains, fresh vegetables, essential fatty acids from things like nuts, olive oil, avocados and fish, and lean protein, such as from legumes, lean chicken, or fish, is all your body requires to have good digestive tract health and a healthy liver, which will then be able to do it's job and rid your body of toxins.
And the "good feeling" that many people claim they feel while on the Master Cleanse can be easily explained by "starvation euphoria", which is the result of starving your body of essential nutrients and dehydrating yourself with the laxative abuse.
Please do yourself a favor and forget you every heard of the Master Cleanse. I heard a guy at the gym today talking on the phone, telling his wife to pick up the ingredients of the Master Cleanse lemonade and it was all I could do not to assault the guy and try to beat some sense into him.
Original Post by techdog:
I heard a guy at the gym today talking on the phone, telling his wife to pick up the ingredients of the Master Cleanse lemonade and it was all I could do not to assault the guy and try to beat some sense into him.
Don't worry, he will come to his senses all right during those unpleasant minutes/hours on the toilet.
This is definitely not the place to ask about the Master Cleanse. I say do the research yourself, the creator of the MC is Stanley Burrows (sp?). Read his book and come to your own conclusions on it, please. You can read it for free by downloading the pdf.
I personally decided that the only way to come to a proper conclusion was to do the cleanse myself, following the cleanse step by step, word for word, bar nothing. I have never, before nor since, experienced such clarity of mind as I did when I was on day 8-10 of the fast. Mentally, emotionally, physically, and especially spiritually, I felt amazing.
However, days 1-7 were spent almost constantly crapping, and days 11-13 I had dry heaves from orange juice, which was too strong for me. After I ate solids for the first time, I had such incredible chest pains it literally felt like I swallowed daggers when it was just veggie soup.
I lost 17 lbs in 10 days, which yes, I did indeed gain back because I purposely chose to eat garbage after coming off the fast. What can I say, I was just happy to be eating real food again. You should be warned though, that if you have had eating disorders in the past, or honestly believe you have one now, this is not for you. I have a past of laxative abuse, and coming off the fast I drank laxative tea (required by the MC) for weeks after I should have quit. I ate garbage, telling myself "well I can always just do the MC again". I quit going to the gym saying the same thing to myself. I am at my highest weight now because I sabotaged myself. The MC triggered my appetite for destruction, which I don't think is a problem for people who do not already have those tendencies.
I do actually believe a few rare and gifted magical beings (unicorns perhaps?) can do the MC and come out unscathed. I, however, was not one of them, and you will have to find out for yourself. It takes a lot of willpower and then afterwards, sensibility, logical thinking, and positive self talk to avoid the pitfalls of coming off the fast (your metabolism has crashed, any negative food habits are going to be chafing at the bit to take root again, your body is going to have strange reactions to all kinds of foods, etc., also there is no telling what you may convince yourself of afterwards. I thought I was "cured" of my E.D., for example.)
Again, I would encourage you to do your own research. Don't take somebody's opinion if they haven't done the cleanse themselves, and don't think that your experience will be identical to anyone else's. Read the book, be careful, be safe.
I "detoxed" the other day in a much healthier way, and it was great. The Master Cleanse is unbelievably unsafe. What I did was a raw food day. I only ate fruit and raw veggies all day, lots of water, and herbal tea. The next day, I had a visibly flatter stomach.
Original Post by little_black_dress:
However, days 1-7 were spent almost constantly crapping, and days 11-13 I had dry heaves from orange juice, which was too strong for me. After I ate solids for the first time, I had such incredible chest pains it literally felt like I swallowed daggers when it was just veggie soup.
I lost 17 lbs in 10 days, which yes, I did indeed gain back because I purposely chose to eat garbage after coming off the fast. What can I say, I was just happy to be eating real food again.
Again, I would encourage you to do your own research. Don't take somebody's opinion if they haven't done the cleanse themselves, and don't think that your experience will be identical to anyone else's. Read the book, be careful, be safe.
First of all, WHOO that sounds awesome. Where do I sign up.
Second of all, I don't need to take arsenic to find out it's poisonous, do I? That logic is ridiculous.
Yeah not really a good place to ask.
However people at this forum are reacting pretty positive to this detox so you can check out testimonies and stuff too :D
http://www.soompi.com/forums/index.php?showto pic=99202&st=0
This is the perfect place to ask. Where people are focused on healthy eating and habits and where we don't fall for ridiculous pseudo scientific crap. As spirochete said, I don't have to personally try arsenic to know that it is bad for me.
The Master Cleanse is based of inaccurate and dangerous ideas that have been proven over and over to be so. Anyone who has to try it to see just how dangerous and wrong the Master Cleanse is is just plain stupid. And as others have pointed out, just because some people on the Internet believe otherwise doesn't make it any safer or nutritionally sound.
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