The Truth About
The Lemon Detox Diet

The Lemon Detox Diet is one of the most popular diets in the world today! However, the reason for its popularity isn't because it is healthy or provides a long-term solution to weight loss, the reasons for its 'success' result from a range of factors that we will cover in this article.

The Lemon Detox Diet, which is also known as the lemon juice detox, is simply another one of the fast crash diets that cause people to lose dramatic amounts of weight in a short period of time but also results in rebound weight gain shortly after completion of the diet.

Here's how the Lemon Detox Diet 'works' and why you should avoid using it!

No food for 7 days!

The biggest criticism of the Lemon Detox Diet is the simple fact that you don't eat anything for 7 days! This is the most ludicrous recommendation of any diet in history! Will you lose weight? Of course you will! If you stop eating you will lose weight. Will you put the lost weight back on again? Absolutely!

A detox diet that recommends that you consume only vegetable and/ or fruit juices for one day is probably acceptable. However, a detox diet that doesn't allow any food for 7 days is simply wrong and the marketers of such an approach are completely irresponsible.

The bottom line is that the human body requires food! Food is essential for survival and for optimum body functioning and trying to accelerate weight loss by using starvation approaches, such as is recommended in the Lemon Detox Diet is futile at best and potentially harmful to the body at worst!

The Lemon Detox Diet uses household ingredients

There is certainly nothing magical about the Lemon Detox Diet. It is not some ancient health remedy that someone discovered on a scroll in a cave in Middle-Eastern Europe! It is nothing more than lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper. Let's examine each ingredient and see what effects they have on the body with regards to weight loss.

Here's what the ingredients in the Lemon Detox Diet actually do
Lemon juice is mostly water with some sugar and a small amount of vitamin C. Maple syrup is a concentrated source of sugar with a few vitamins in extremely small quantities. Cayenne pepper may have some very mild nervous system stimulating effects.

The Lemon Juice Detox Diet suggests consuming a mixture of these ingredients 3 times a day to replace each of your main meals. No other food is allowed for the first 7 days!

The cost certainly outweighs its value

Each of these ingredients is found in most people's kitchen so why would you bother going to a health food store or pharmacy to pay around $100 for a product that costs less than a few dollars to make at home in your kitchen!

Here's why the Lemon Detox Diet
has become so popular:

Over one million dollars is spent on marketing

It is any wonder that a product that contains only a few dollars worth of ingredients costs almost $100 dollars in the stores! Someone has to pay for all the advertising and marketing expenses and of course, it is the consumer!

It's no wonder that people who are desperate to lose weight and who have little knowledge of nutrition or physiology are willing to try a weight-loss system that promises a dramatic loss of weight as well as boundless energy.

The impressive packaging of the product also contributes to its compelling appeal. The average consume would be convinced that the Lemon Juice Detox Diet works because it looks very 'clinical'. The box itself is actually quite heavy (due to the maple syrup), making it seem like it must be good value!

The Lemon Juice Detox Diet website further adds to the product's appeal by providing consumers with an impressive-looking website filled with 'pseudo-science' demonstrating how and why the product is so effective. It's no wonder so many people fall for this type of marketing.

Celebrities are paid thousands of dollars to endorse the product

celebrity endorsement has been proven to be a highly effective marketing strategy over the years. If people believe that a certain celebrity has used a product and achieved results, then they are far more likely to try the product themselves.

More often than not, the celebrity who is endorsing a product has never actually used it! They have simply been paid a lot of money so the company can use their name or image in association with the product.

The Lemon detox Diet does get results fast, even if they are temporary!

Many overweight people are so desperate to lose weight that they are willing to try anything! Since they have tried to lose weight many times before without success, they are constantly looking for the weight-loss solution that will finally help them get the weight off and keep it off forever!

Unfortunately though, people who are desperate are sitting ducks for clever marketers and the marketers of the Lemon Juice Detox are expert marketers! Let's face it, how else could you possible sell basic household food stuffs for around 20 times its actual value? Marketing!

The reason why the Lemon Detox Diet is so effective at helping people lose weight is simply because you don't eat anything for 7 days! You could achieve the exact same or possibly even better weight loss by simply drinking water for 7 days but rest assured, the lost weight will come back with a vengeance!

If you want to follow a detox diet that will help you lose weight safely and effectively without starving, here's a completely free detox diet for you to try. If you follow the principles of this detox diet and then stick to it relatively closely thereafter you will be able to continually lose weight easily.

If you would like to discover the most effective principles to help you burn fat fast and lose all the weight you want, get a copy of my e-book, Look Good, Feel Great!

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