Lemonade Diet Recipe

The lemonade diet is a liquid diet that helps to cleanse a person's system by loosening blockages and removing toxins.

Lemonade Diet Recipe:

Fresh-squeezed lemon juice (or sometimes lime is substituted), cayenne pepper and maple syrup.

Each ingredient in the lemonade diet lemon drink brings its own unique benefits to the overall process.

Fresh-squeezed lemon juice helps to loosen and break up blockages. Blockages happen when food materials and toxins stick to the walls of the digestive system. Slowly those things build up until other substances cannot pass by them, much like a clogged drain. Lemons also contain cationic and anionic minerals, which aren't found in other fruits or vegetables.

Lemon skin can be beneficial too, as it contains many vitamins that can help to keep the body healthy while a person is on the lemonade diet. It's important for people to be aware, though, that many lemons, which are found commercially in stores, have been treated with unhealthy dyes and pesticides.

If a person has access to organic lemons it's best to use those and include the skin in the juicing process. However, if organic lemons aren't available, it's best to peel the lemons before squeezing them.

Another essential part of the lemonade diet recipe is the use of cayenne pepper. It breaks up mucus, while cleaning out the body's major systems. The warmth of cayenne pepper also helps to open up blood vessels and the lemonade diet liquid to flow quickly and easily to all areas of the body.

The final major ingredient, maple syrup, is an excellent source of sugars (energy) and minerals, if the right form is obtained.

There are three grades (types) of maple syrup. Grade B is the best choice for this diet because it contains more minerals than Grade A and it also has a better flavor. Grade C can be used in the lemonade diet drink also. It does contain the most minerals of the three, but most people find it hard to deal with the unpleasantly strong taste. It's much stronger than Grade A or Grade B.

Many people want to substitute honey for maple syrup. The problem with that is that honey is processed by the bees, preservatives are added and it then becomes deficient in vitamins and minerals which maple syrup has in abundance. Also, honey can cause very quick changes in blood pressure that can be quite serious.

Although those are the only ingredients to the lemonade diet drink itself, many people choose to use other techniques with the lemonade diet.

Fiber is necessary to stimulate the movement of the colon. While the lemonade diet drink does serve to loosen mucus and toxins from the colon walls, the drink contains no fiber. That is why many people also use the herbal tea as a laxative while on the lemonade diet. In that way, the mucus and toxins can be both loosened, and flushed out quickly.

Some people do not use a laxative tea, but instead they use a saltwater flush. Saltwater is naturally found in the body, for example, human tears are nothing more than saltwater. A saltwater flush doesn't hurt the body in any way. The only problem with it is that many people find the taste of saltwater hard to swallow.

Other people like to use both the saltwater flush and the herbal laxative tea.

All of these components together make the lemonade diet an extremely effective way to flush the system and improve a person's overall health and energy levels.