The Cayenne Pepper Diet – Detoxify Your Body And Lose Weight
Monday, August 24th, 2009The Cayenne Pepper diet is a diet that is a cleansing diet and can eliminate years of toxin build up in the body. It also goes by the name of the maple syrup diet or lemonade diet. This is a very difficult diet as you basically don’t eat any food except for drinking lemonade for 10 days. However you can lose a lot of weight very quickly.
Cayenne pepper has a lot of health benefits and is known to help rid your body of toxins. The most important compound in the cayenne pepper is capsaicin. Besides capsaicin cayenne peppers also contain minerals, vitamins and antioxidants.
Some of the benefits of capsaicin include killing bacteria, germs, viruses and infections, increasing your metabolism, reducing platelet stickiness, boosting your immune system and helping to improve your blood circulation. For such a dangerously hot pepper it certainly helps your body.
The main toxins that the cayenne pepper diet can eliminate include heavy metals, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, prescription drugs, hormones and other congestion in the body. Most of these toxins are naturally eliminated through the liver, kidneys and other organs but a build up can occur.
When starting the Cayenne pepper diet you need to physically and mentally prepare yourself because it will be a rough 10 days of just drinking lemonade. Once you have made it through the first 10 days you move into the second phase of eating the cayenne pepper with either salt water or non caffeinated laxative tea. Then you move onto the post cleanse.
The first phase is simply getting you used to feeling hungry as you will. Then the second phase contains the lemonade you drink will consist of lemons, cayenne pepper power, distilled water and maple syrup. Once serving consists of 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 10 oz distilled water, 2 tablespoons maple syrup, and 1/10 teaspoon of cayenne powder.
While there are a few side effects to using the cayenne pepper diet they are mainly based around feeling hungry and detoxifying your body. Most individuals do suffer from hunger pangs and will have cravings that can be difficult to ignore and work through. If you normally drink a lot of caffeinated beverages then you may experience some caffeine withdrawal symptoms. Others feel a bit sore and itchy. This is due to your bodies getting rid of toxins in the system.
You should be warned that doctors and other health professionals do not recommend the cayenne pepper diet as the amount of calories you consume is far below what your body needs to function properly and you do not get any protein which your body needs. Additionally if you stay on the diet too long your stomach may stop passing food.
