Master Cleanse & Raw Food News: Beyonce & Master Cleanse Misconceptions

This is reprinted from Peter's newletter I receive.  Wanted to share!

The Master Cleanse / Raw Food Site News

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3 September 2006


1. The 100-mile Diet
2. Great video clip on eating real food
3. Bulletin Board Postings
4. Beyonce & Master Cleanse Misconceptions
5. Save $2 on the Master Cleanse Info Pack this week!

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1. The 100-mile Diet

"The 100-Mile Diet is the brainchild of Vancouver writer Alisa Smith
and her partner, former Adbusters editor J.B. MacKinnon. After learning
that the ingredients in the average North American meal travel between
1,500 and 2,500 miles from farm to plate - as much as 25 percent farther
than they did two decades ago - the green-minded couple decided to make
some lifestyle changes. "We're the kind of people that ride our bikes
everywhere, so we wondered why we were going to all this effort when our
food was flying around the world."

"From March 2005 to March 2006, they ate and drank only products grown,
raised and produced within a 100-mile radius. They documented their
progress along the way, started a Web site to encourage others and are now
working on a book about their experience.

"The ecologically and socially responsible concept has already caught
on and it's growing faster than a patch of purslane. In Powell River, a
peninsula town in British Columbia, 250 people have signed up to follow
a 50-mile diet for five weeks. "Others have written in to say they have
100-mile lunches or dinner parties," Smith says. In the States,
chapters of "locavores" have sprung up all across the country. Other groups
have set up their own Eat Local challenges. In this area, a group blog
called PhillyFoodShed serves as a starting point for exploring local
resources."

"Eating Local: There's No Plate Like Home", Organic Consumers
Association, 

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2. Great video clip on eating real food


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"Democracy...is a charming form of government, full of variety and
disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.”

Plato, 427-347 BC, famous Greek philosopher

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3. Bulletin Board Postings

Poster: Angelakong
Date: August 26, 2006

"I've personally done this cleanse 4 other times in the last two years.
I try to cleanse every six months. I do not alter the syrup or recipe
in anyway. I have a medium frame, 5'5" and average about 124. I usually
cleanse when I inch up to the 128 mark. I then lose about 8-9 pounds on
the fast, and gain about 2 back in water weight. The rest stays off."

Poster: Swimgirl
Date: August 30, 2006

"Hi everyone,

"I'm excited to report that it's been over a week post cleanse, and
despite having not broken the cleanse properly (which I am not
recommending, though nothing bad really happened to me), and having eaten some
things not on my ideal list of healthy choices (though I did not totally
binge either), I seem to be keeping the 10 lbs off.

"So that's good news. I'm looking forward to doing MC2 in late
sept/Oct.

"Take care!"

Read more at The Raw Foods Site Forum

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4. Beyonce & Master Cleanse Misconceptions

A lot has been written and said in the last week or so about Beyoncé's
losing 20 pounds in 10 days on the Master Cleanse for her new movie
role in "Dreamgirls" where her character first appears on screen as 16
years old, then later as 36.

What is clearly true is that Beyoncé was at least 14.5 pounds lighter 2
weeks later for shooting the younger part. Beyond that, there have been
some misconceptions that I'd like to clarify.

Misconception #1: "Health experts claim that this diet sends each of
its followers in a hospital if they try it more than 10 days."
(Originally written in www.playfuls.com and then reprinted in
Chinadaily.

The truth: Literally thousands of people do the Master Cleanse for
anywhere between 10 and 40 days and feel better afterwards. I personally
have done it 15 times and 5 of those were for more than 10 days. I have
never been to the hospital since I started eating better (predominantly
raw vegetarian, but not completely) and doing regular Master Cleanses
(about 1 every 3 months). Many more experiences of other people can be
found in my book, Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 Days.

Misconception #2: "People would start to feel very lethargic and would
be unable to concentrate... They will probably end up in hospital,
especially people who try it for more than 10 days." (from the same
article)

The truth: I do it to have more energy and think more clearly. In an
informal survey in January 2005 of 141 people who had completed at least
one Master Cleanse, more than 3/4 had more energy and more than 90%
were happier!

Misconception #3: "The problem is not what's in the diet but what's
not. There are no fats, proteins, vitamins or minerals and the only
carbohydrate is in the form of sugar." (from the same article)

The truth: Most people know that citrus fruit (including lemons) are a
good source of vitamin C. What many people do not know is that lemon
juice is also a good source of potassium. However, that's beside the
point. The idea that people cannot exist without protein for 10 days may be
a dream of the meat industry, but it is not true. Fasting, as
recommended in the Bible, has been recognized by many doctors for hundreds of
years. The most current, visible American MD who is a major proponent of
fasting is Dr. Joel Fuhrman, author of Eat to Live and Fasting and
Eating for Health. He has had numerous successes curing with diabetes, high
blood pressure, and heart disease. In Europe, there are many health
spas run by doctors that practice fasting for healing and rejuvenation.

Misconception #4: "The diet was presented for the first time by a Swiss
health company in 1985 and reached a high popularity very fast." (from
the same article)

The truth: The Master Cleanse was first developed by Stanley Burroughs
and later appeared as The Master Cleanser, first published in 1976.

Misconception #5: "The cleanse became popular again with the 2004
publication of Peter Glickman’s Lose Weight, Have More Energy and Be Happier
in Ten Days." The WebCalorie

The truth: I appreciate the publicity. (They never even called or
emailed. I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered this.) However, the
Master Cleanse has consistently grown more popular due to the great word
of mouth from the hundreds of thousands of people who do it every year
and discover its benefits.

Misconception #6: "The lemonade (which you drink 6 to 8 glasses per
day) is made from 2 tablespoons of Grade A maple syrup, juice of ½ lemon,
1/10 teaspoon of cayenne pepper and 1 quart of spring water." ("Hot
Stuff" New York Daily News, August 17, 2006)

The truth: I appreciated the reporter, Jane Ridley, giving my website a
direct link from the article, but "1 quart" should read "8 ounces". I
don't know what would happen to a person if they drank 8 quarts of water
every day for 10 or more days, but I wouldn't want to be the one to
find out. "6 to 8" should read "6 to 12 glasses per day".(By the way,
Burroughs recommends Grade B organic maple syrup because it has more
minerals, but says any grade will work.)

Misconception #7: " 'I ate everything when it was over...the second I
looked at a donut, it came back! I gained back all the weight, even the
weight I didn't want to come back!' she says, laughing." ("Beyoncé:
'I'm in no rush to get married'" The Belfast Telegraph, August 25, 2006)

The truth: I believe weight gain is a result of accumulated toxins.
It's been shown that the body protects itself from toxins that are too
numerous for the liver to handle by putting them into fat cells. That's
why going on a raw vegan diet results in people losing weight. The liver
is finally able to handle some of these stored older toxins because it
doesn't need to handle as many from the raw vegan diet. That's also why
people who go back to eating the Standard American Diet (lots of
artificially flavored, colored and preserved food that has been heavily
processed and practically no fresh, raw greens, vegetables and fruits)
immediately regain any weight they lose on any diet, let alone the Master
Cleanse. The better your diet afterwards, the less weight you put back
on. The informal survey of 141 Master Cleansers mentioned earlier
discovered that the average woman completing the Master Cleanse lost about 12
pounds and regained about 6. The average man lost about 16 pounds
and also regained about 6. Interestingly, most people reported they ate
a healthier diet after completing the cleanse.

Misconception #8: The Master Cleanse is for everyone.

The truth: The Master Cleanse is great, but it's not for everyone. It
is probably the second most powerful (read that as the fastest) way to
detoxify the body. Only a water fast is more powerful. If a person has a
great deal of stored toxins, releasing them too quickly results in
detox symptoms, such as headaches, rashes, tiredness, irritability, even
vomiting. Those people should not do the Master Cleanse. They should
detoxify much more slowly with a better diet. Also, people recovering from
surgery need large amounts of protein to regenerate tissue and so
should not do the Master Cleanse until they have completely recovered from
surgery. Pregnant and nursing women should not do it either, as there is
a remote possibility that the toxins may find their way into the
infant, although, I have never heard of such actually occurring, but better
safe than sorry. For the rest of us, the Master Cleanse is really
amazing!

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I hope you're having a good Labor Day weekend and enjoying family and
friends.

Yours in health,
Peter Glickman

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