"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 ...

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 drank ...