The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet

By Tom Woloshyn

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Being in Control of Our Own Health

• Your health plan or HMO is likely not interested in doing it for you, although some are slowly becoming receptive to using preventative medicine.
• Your medical doctor has not learned how to do it, and might scoff at it.
• You are the person most interested in achieving optimal health for yourself.
• Your cleansing might reduce or eliminate a variety of health issues that have been bothering you.
• You can reduce your medical costs by avoiding certain illnesses.
• You can change the way you eat in the future, but cleansing is one of the few ways that you can address your poor food choices from the past.
• You might even save or prolong your life by cleansing regularly.

It is true that no solid foods are consumed on the Master Cleanse. This is an absolutely crucial aspect of this diet, for only when the digestive system stops having to constantly work can the body shift gears to do the essential task of ridding itself of unnecessary wastes, toxins, or poisons that are creating dis-ease.

Understanding Dis-ease: A Physical Perspective Stanley Burroughs, a holistic health practitioner who developed the Master Cleanser and other programs and therapies, believed that all dis-ease conditions that affect the body are caused by toxemia, the accumulation of wastes, toxins, or poisons. This build up is caused by two different mechanisms in our dietary choices:

• Devitalized foods are those that have been processed to remove or extract their vital ingredients, such as minerals, vitamins, and fiber. Examples are white sugar, white flour, and white rice, to name just a few.
• Foods that affect our body negatively include meat and dairy products, artificial foods, preservatives, fried foods, anything containing trans fats, and so on.

We as a species have evolved, over thousands of years, while eating foods essentially in their whole and natural state. What our distant ancestors ate provided them with the minerals, vitamins, enzymes, fibers, and a host of other essential nutrients to sustain life. But in the last 100 years or so much of the products in our food supply has had all goodness taken out so that they will have a longer shelf life and look more appealing. Companies began adding chemical preservatives, food additives, colorants, artificial flavorings, and a host of other compounds.

Corporate executives and food scientists have increased their profit margins at the expense of our health. Their lack of understanding and knowledge of our bodies and its nutritional needs has led them to make many unwise decisions that affect the health of our bodies.

How Our Body Works There are many thousands of specialized types of cells throughout the body, such as bone cells, skin cells, blood cells, nerve cells, brain cells and so forth. Each of these cell types possesses a very specific structure, shape, function and chemical makeup. For all cells to remain healthy and to function perfectly, they need to be nourished well by our blood, whose task is to carry the necessary building blocks out to the cells. When your diet is missing certain nutrients, you are actually denying certain types of cells the nutrients they need to function or live.

We add to this problem by consuming foods that, by their nature, are difficult for us to digest such as meat and dairy products, causing waste build up and for the body to be overworked. Consuming processed foods over a period of time causes a number of problems. To give only a few examples:

• Weakened pancreas (hypoglycemia)
• Destroyed enzymes (which are required for digestion and other functions)
• Reduced fiber (fiber is needed for elimination)
• Accumulation of wastes in the body (toxic build up)
• Acid formation (leaches out certain essential minerals)
• Candida (fungal overgrowth that causes a huge range of problems)

All of these problems can lead to illness and disease.

The Effects of Stress When you are experiencing long-term stress, your body begins many different chemical, hormonal, and metabolic processes. Your body maybe reacting as if you are being seriously threatened, even though you may just be worrying about the rent. Yet if this stress remains unresolved for a long time, the effects on your body can be dramatic. For example, after about two minutes of stress the digestive system slows and may even stop until the situation is resolved. Even with the best diet, any stress at all will have some impact on the health of your body. Stress is a condition that starts in the conscious mind and almost always manifests as a feeling in the body. When left unchecked or resolved, it becomes an unconscious state in the mind, which then settles into the body's tissues and cells. If left unchecked for too long, it will create the experience of a dis-ease or discomfort, functioning much like an alarm to alert the mind and wake it up to take corrective action.

" Why should I do the Master Cleanse if it is coming from the mind?" Addressing dis-ease at the physical level is much easier than addressing thought patterns. The body is more accessible than the mind. We can more easily control what we put in our mouths than in our minds. By treating our body we can easily and more quickly see or feel the results. The body is an extension of the mind.

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