Want to cleanse your entire internal system and lose some pounds? The Lemonade Diet is a detoxification diet that can cleanse away the decades of accumulated toxins in your body. Even though the Lemonade Diet is famous for the quick detoxification of the body, it also brings about weight loss, which is an additional advantage to the user of the diet.

Now let us take a closer look at the ingredients needed and each’s importance and significance in greater details.

Organic Lemon

The lemon is high in nutrients and rich in minerals. Despite its acidic nature, the lemon, once ingested, can increase the alkali balance, bringing you into better health and restoring your immune system’s functionality. The high Vitamin C content in lemon can give your immune system an instant boost. Together with high potassium content, the lemon possesses detoxifying properties. The sugar in a lemon is natural, unrefined, unprocessed, and easily absorbed into our bodies for nourishment – a far cry from refined white sugar!

Why must it be organic? Because organic lemons are grown without the use of any artificial chemicals, namely pesticides, herbicides or artificial fertilizers. Thus it will be completely natural and free of hidden harmful chemicals.

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Alternatively, lime can also be used in this detoxification diet. However there are differences between these two magic fruits. To read more, read here and decide for yourself.

Distilled / Purified Water

Choose to use distilled water as normal tap water contains a lot of impurities! The clean tap water is usually chlorinated as well to kill bacteria; the low level of chlorine can be harmful for the body in long term consumption. Mineral water too contains a lot of impurities and you would not want to use that as it would interfere with the cleanse. The best way is to buy distilled water off the shelf of the supermarket.

Alternatively, you can install a water purifiers, water ionizers, water alkalizers in your house that can provide you with water every time. They purify the water, removing contaminants, and ionize it to make it “alive” with antioxidants! In distilled water, the healthy sub-particles would have been removed, causing the water to become “dead”.

Organic Grade B Maple Syrup

There are two grades for the Maple Syrup – Grade A, which is lighter in colour, taste and texture, and Grade B is darker than Grade A, and has a stronger flavor.

Our ingredient, the Grade B maple syrup and the normal table syrup are not the same! Table Syrup consists of mainly fructose sugar but in Maple Syrup, it’s sucrose. Sucrose is metabolized by the body more easily when ingested. It is better than fructose sugar as less energy is required to break it down in the body. Moreover the refinement process for common, commercial table syrup strips the syrup of its minerals! Thus if you are on the lemonade diet, it is important that your body gets the vital nutrition that only Grade B maple syrup can provide.

If you can’t find Grade B maple syrup anywhere, you can also try Natural Tree syrup, which is made from palm tree. To read more about Natural Tree Syrup, and the difference between it and Maple syrup, please see here.

If you can find neither of both in your area, the best alternative will be organic honey. However organic honey may lack the necessary nutrients and minerals that will sustain you through the lemonade detoxification diet. You can always search online to purchase organic maple syrup or natural tree syrup which should be readily available and affordable.

The Cayenne Pepper Powder

The Capsaicin contained in the Cayenne Pepper for the lemonade speeds up your metabolism, aiding in the cleansing of the body, and increases blood flow which simulates your immune system in your body. It promotes “thermogenesis” in us, a process in which heat is produced in our body, causing more fats to be burnt away, thus leading to weight loss! The pepper also contains Vitamin A or beta-carotene, which gives the lemonade its anti-oxidant property.
What if you cannot bear the taste of the cayenne pepper in your lemonade? You can either purchase cayenne capsules off the shelves, or buy empty capsules at any pharmacy and contain the powder inside the capsule yourself, and then down it with the lemonade.

However it is recommended that the cayenne powder be used instead capsules. It is believed that you are only getting a small part of the potential effect of cayenne pepper by taking it in capsules. Click here to read about the medically proven reason!

Alternatively, ginger can be used as a substitute if you cannot find Cayenne Pepper powder. Another way you can try is to take some dried peppers and grind them up into a powder. Then again, the lemonade mixture may not be as effective and efficient. Read here for the full review of the benefits of the miracle Cayenne Pepper.

Organic Sea Salt Flush with Herbal Laxative Tea

To flush out the accumulated toxins from your body, it is of utmost importance for you to have a good bowel movement; else there is no outlet for the waste to get out. Organic salt water flush and herbal laxative teas help to ensure a smooth bowel movement during the diet period.

A salt water flush can be easily achieved at home with ingredients that you may already have inside your kitchen cabinets. However make sure that you use sea salt and NOT regular salt! Regular table salt will not work. To know how to prepare a proper and effective salt water flush, see here.

The tea will help to loosen up any deposits along the digestive tract, so that it is easier for the salt water to clear the wastes out the next morning. This flush will not do harm to your body as your body cannot become dependent on the salt water; it can become dependent on chemical laxatives in long term though.

So, the night before you start the Lemonade Diet, you drink the laxative tea. In the morning, you drink the salt water flush. Throughout the day, you drink 6 to 10 servings of the lemonade PLUS plain water whenever you feel like it. When evening comes, you drink the laxative tea again and another cycle follows.