Beyonce lost weight with the Master Cleanse Diet, smart or not?

Three years ago Beyonce told Oprah that she started on using the Master Cleanse Diet in order to help her shed a bit of weight. Is this really a smart way to lose weight? The Master Cleanse is a liquid diet – the purpose is to cleanse and detoxify the body while reportedly stimulating healthy tissue growth. The Master Cleanse Program includes e.g.: drinking salt water in the morning, a concoction of lemon juice, cayenne and maple syrup throughout the day, and at the end of the day shopping off with laxative tea at night. It may be a diet and an effective method to lose weight. But another more important colon & colonic related question should be: Are detox diets healthy? Katherine McManus, director of nutrition at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston recently did a study comparing a variety of weight loss & detox diets. Katherine McManus (registered dietitian) says “I have not seen any science that substantiates the health claims made by proponents of detox diets. These detox cleansing diets are a very limited, short-term fix, and the research shows that the weight loss cannot be sustained.” Source: 14WFie.com: