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Lemon Detox Diet:

What the diet consists of?

The Lemon Detox consists of three types of cleansers. A full body cleanse is a fast and effective detox. This version involves substituting all meals with the Lemon Detox drink. Breakfast, lunch and dinner all consist of 2-3 glasses of Lemon Detox drink. This diet is recommended for 10 days.

A relaxed version is when you cannot incorporate a full body cleanse. It allows the body to purify itself at a slower rate while still consuming some solid food whilst staying away from foods such as sweets, processed foods, red meat, fried foods, white bread, refined flour, dairy products, coffee and alcohol. This should be completed over a period of at least two weeks. The 50/50 version is a combination of the full body cleanse and the relaxed version. This is a 9 day detox consisting of 3 days of the relaxed diet, 3 days on the full body cleanse and 3 days on the relaxed version.

An analysis of the diet against its ability to meet the Australian Dietary Guidelines.

The lemon detox diet does not allow you to maintain and achieve a healthy weight, nor does it allow you to consume nutritious foods and drinks to meet your energy needs which is outlined in the first guideline.

The second guidelines states, a wide variety of nutritious foods are needed every day from the five food groups. The lemon detox diet does not meet these requirements.

Guideline three, to limit foods containing saturated fat, added salt, added sugars and alcohol, is met by the detox diet as your not consuming any of these foods whilst on the diet.

Guideline four, encourage and support breastfeeding and guideline five, care and store your food safely are not relevant to this diet.

Recommendations about following the diet.

The lemon detox diet is not a healthy option to loose weight.

It can be considered a starvation diet.

As soon as you stop the diet you put the weight back on.

It is low in protein which may result in loss of muscle mass and your metabolic rate may drop as your not getting enough nutrients.

You don’t get your recommended daily intake of nutrients.

Lemon Detox. (2015). Detox. Retrieved from http://www.lemondetox.com.au/rhowthelemondetoxworks.php

Nutrition Australia. (2013). Australian Dietary Guidelines. Retrieved from http://www.nutritionaustralia.org/national/resource/australian-dietary-guidelines-2013