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The Master Cleanse Program was created in the late 1950s by Stanley Burroughs, but it was only in the 1970s that he decided to publish a book explaining its use. The program only allows you to consume a lemonade mixture made up of lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper powder. In the Master Cleanse Program, you are allowed to drink other supplementary drinks such as a laxative tea and water, but you are not allowed to eat other foods, especially solid foods.
More recently, the Program has been revised and republished with up-to-date ingredients. For example, modern times have changed the classification of Maple Syrup into many categories and grades. The most notable remake was done by Peter Glickman in the mid 1990s. He took Burroughs' approach and popularized it for a modern audience. In recent years the Master Cleanse Program has once again been made popular by celebrities using it not only as a detoxifying diet, but also as a weight loss program. Celebrities found the program satisfactory because of the amount of weight lost in a short span of time.
The purpose of the Master Cleanse Program is to eliminate toxins that have built up in the body because of constant unhealthy living. The program is designed to expel toxins from the lungs, kidneys and liver by drinking the lemonade mixture and herbal tea laxative. Aside from these benefits, the person on the diet also loses significant amounts of weight, regains and/or increases energy and even eliminates some chronic diseases in the body. Because of the clearing of the toxins, the body works more efficiently and the toxins and bacteria that usually cause these diseases are also removed from the system.
Some people are intimidated by the lack of solid food in the Master Cleanse Program. They take one look at the ingredients and think that no one can possibly last 10 days on such a program. In reality, the simplicity of the ingredients is what makes the Master Cleanse so effective. The ingredients provide the person on the diet enough vitamins and nutrients to last the entire 10 days and more. People are often surprised to learn that they actually have more energy during the Master Cleanse Program than they had before they started it.
