Media Articles
*Story from People Magazine, April 5, 2004 by Michelle Tauber, Mark Dagostino in NYC.
Robin Quivers doesn't mind when people comment
on her 70-lb. weight loss. Just don't ask her if
she's had "that operation" - i.e., gastric bypass
surgery. "That's the most insulting thing," says
Quivers, the long-running sidekick to shock jock
Howard Stern. In fact, "I beg people not to have
an operation!" she says. "They're never going to
enjoy eating again." Yet, if surgery seems
extreme, Quivers's own weight-loss method
seems nearly as drastic. The 51-year-old radio
personality credits the controversial Master
Cleanser fast - which can involve weeks of
ingesting nothing except a lemon-juice and
cayenne-pepper elixir - for her newly slim 145-lb.
frame. But more importantly, she says the
regimen is responsible for erasing the joint pain
and fatigue that had plagued her for more than a decade. "I've never felt this good about my body before," declares Quivers, who likens her extreme dieting - she has fasted for 21 consecutive days on three occasions - to "a spiritual journey.
Excerpt from:
I Heard It Through the Diet Grapevine
By Lola Oginnaike
Published: December 10, 2006
WHEN Teron Beal, a songwriter and aspiring actor in Manhattan, was looking to drop weight quickly for a photo shoot, he didn’t double up on gym visits, gulp metabolic boosting pills or limit his diet to leafy greens and lean protein. Instead, he took a more drastic approach: he tried the “master cleanse,” a fast that requires subsisting for 10 or more days solely on an elixir of fresh-squeezed lemon juice, cayenne pepper, maple syrup and water. “I had only three weeks and I needed the difference to be noticeable,” said Mr. Beal, adding that he lost nearly 10 pounds during his 12-day fast in July. “The first few days were horrible, but by the fifth day I woke up and looked in the mirror and saw two ab muscles that had eluded me for years. I was grumpy no longer.”
It’s been made newly popular by singer/actress Beyonce Knowles, who used the diet to lose 20 pounds quickly for her role in the movie Dreamgirls, but the maple syrup diet, also known as the lemonade diet or the master cleanse, has been around
since the1970s. Using the word “diet” to describe the program is a bit of a misnomer because you’re not actually eating anything. This is a fasting program that allows you to lose weight quickly simply because you aren’t eating.
The book The Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs first popularized the program, with its emphasis on fresh lemon juice, purified water, maple syrup and cayenne pepper. The original version of the diet included a saltwater flush each morning and tea each evening, but it hasn’t been reported that this was part of Knowles’ program.
Nicole Scherzinger:
"I need total focus,total concentraton,total centering, because this album is everything I've been working for my whole life. you get one chance, and this is my chance" Sherzinger rears back,takes a slug of the yellow stuff and reels it in,growling like a tough old broad:
......"So I am Master Cleansing It"
Excerpts from: Blender ,Nov 2007
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