The Master Cleanse Diet is a form of detoxing the body from harmful toxins that build in the body due to the western way of living and the food we eat and was created by Stanley Burroughs and published in a book written by him. There are claims of people losing 20 pounds in 10 days but I have not seen any scientific data to back this up.

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