Lemon Juice Diet

Lemon juice diet is another popular juice fast. It is as slightly better than other fads when it comes to diets and fasts.

Again, like the other juice diets I have written about here. It is arbitrary.

Lemon is an alkaline food. It raises the pH of your blood if is acidic. It also helps clean the digestive tract.

The lemon juice diet is also referred to as the “10 day Master Cleanse” by Stanley Burroughs.  This cleanse has been used by many people around the world as a safe and relatively easy way to strongly cleanse our digestive and elimination systems.

There are three main parts to the lemon juice diet/fast:

1. The Lemon Drink
2. Salt Water Drink
3. Herbal/Laxative Teas (there are a variety in your local grocery store, ones with senna work well)

The main recipes for the fast are as follows:

Lemon Juice Drink:

2 tablespoons fresh squeezed organic lemon or lime juice (approx. 1/2 lemon).
2 tablespoons organic maple syrup (Grade B).
1/10 teaspoon (a small pinch, by preference) cayenne pepper.
12-16oz pure spring water (room temperature).

For more portability, you can use the following measurements to fill a gallon jug (5 Lemons/Limes, 1.25 cups of maple syrup, 1 teaspoon cayenne, fill to the top with spring water).

Drink 6-12 glasses of the mixture a day for 10 days.  You should also drink plain water throughout the day if you find yourself thirsty.

Salt Water Drink:

2 teaspoons of natural sea salt
1 quart of lukewarm water

Drink the entire quart quickly in one sitting first thing in the morning.  You should need to eliminate in 1-3 hours, possibly a few times.

This is a helpful detox but again it is limited. It just provides the benefit of taking pressure of the glands and the digestive tract. It is a healthy thing to do from time to time. But as a weight loss tool it is nothing close to ideal.

I write about the following lemon and cranberry drink in Cranberry Juice Diet :

When healing the liver drinking a juice of cranberry, lemon, and apple cider vinegar with a juice fast of green raw liquids and beet help restore health to the liver. Healing the liver and/or making sure it is unburdened is key to natural weight loss.

The liver is almost like a regulator of all other glands. The glands play a key role in your natural weight loss because they produce hormones. The hormones your body produces are one of the principal causes of weight loss and weight gain. There are "Fat Burnng Hormones" and "Hormones and Weight Gain" and they are very powerful. A weak liver prevents the glands that produce these hormones to work correctly. This causes a phenomenon of stubborn weight that will not go away or a person who cannot lose weight.

A liquid diet (which can contain some solid foods that are 90 % and above in the level of water) and this cranberry-lemon-apple cider vinegar drink will help the liver heal faster.

Then I can help my clients change their body chemistry and restore their metabolism to the speed of a younger person.