"The Master Cleanse," aka the Lemonade Diet, has been reportedly used by celebrities such as Beyonce and Gwyneth Paltrow. The detox is based on snake-oil science from the 1940s, but it remains one ...

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The original detox diet, called the Master Cleanse, was thought up in the 1940s by Stanley Burroughs as a "natural" way to treat stomach ulcers. It consists of a daily regimen of 6-12 glasses of ...

Trending in the 1940s and popular again in the early 2000s, The Master Cleanse, also known as the Lemonade Diet, involved a mostly liquid diet regimen. During the main cleanse phase, dieters ...