The Lemon Diet

The lemon diet is already quite old, but lately has been quite widely spoken because Beyonce has lost nearly 22 pounds with this diet. The lemon diet is quite strict, and as such is also not recommended by many health professionals and should be viewed as a detox diet rather than as a weight loss diet.

This diet is deficient in many essential nutrients the body needs like: proteins, minerals, vitamins, meaning that besides losing weight you lose muscle and fat. Taken to an extreme diet can be very dangerous.

Lemon is rich in vitamin C, but not only. It is also rich in magnesium, iron, phosphorus and vitamin B and is known for its health benefits in relieving the symptoms of infections, arthritis, gout, purify the blood and is an excellent diuretic.

Benefits:

• Detoxifies and eliminates toxins;
• Cleanses the kidneys and digestive system;
• Purifies the glands and cells;
• It relieves the pressure on the arteries and blood vessels;

When it comes to the lemon diet, we talk about a total fasting diet of solid food, that just allows the intake of water and lemon for about 15 days. It is a process in which one feels hunger, headaches, tiredness, dizziness, nausea, etc...

For the process not to be as aggressive, the suggestion is that in addition to maintaining a daytime food intake low in calories take every day in the morning lemon with warm water, increasing by half a lemon a day. Thus, if in the first day you drink a glass of water with half a lemon, the second should drink with one lemon, the third day one and a half a lemon, til three lemons a day and then cut the same way until you return to daily half a lemon.