The Beyonce Diet Is Not A Healthy Colon Cleanse

Touted by websites dedicated to all those women who have the body of an older Simone Signoret but desire to look like Beyonce or any teeny bopper model, the Beyonce diet is quite often used interchangeably as a term for a colon cleanse. It is vitally important to understand that what Beyonce did to lose her weight has little if anything to do with a proper colon cleanse that relies on supplementation to aid the colon in the expulsion of fecal matter that thus far has been attaching itself to the walls of the intestines.

While it is disputed in some medical circles that colon cleanses have little if any positive effect on a person's health, the fact that they are very popular alternative health practices currently engage din does not change. In addition to the foregoing, as long as today's superstars misuse terminology to describe their latest fad diet that had a short term effect desired by vast hordes of followers that look to Hollywood's beautiful people for advice on health, dieting, and exercising, these same followers will being to use the terminology to apply it to questionable nutritional regimens that abuse the body.

A colon cleanse is achieved in a variety of ways:

* You may choose to ingest more fiber-rich foods and increase your water intake. This will encourage your colon to naturally evacuate fecal matter from your gastrointestinal tract.

* Others will use supplementation that sometimes relies on mild laxatives added to fiber in order to achieve the voiding of fecal matter that is believed to have been in the colon for a prolonged period of time yet was never properly evacuated due to a lack of proper fiber.

* Still others will use the more drastic steps that involve colonic irrigation and visit a practitioner trained in the area of manually cleansing the colon for the sake of the associated health benefits.

It is important to note that the medical establishment decidedly opposes colonic irrigation and instead simply advocates an increase of fiber in the everyday diet to ensure proper colon health. Beyonce, on the other hand, engaged in a weight loss fad that in some ways mimicked the effects of a colon cleanse but was not nearly as benign in its execution.

* She relied heavily on lemons and maple syrup to flush out her colon and in the process loose weight.

* Since she deprived her body of balanced nutrition, she was able to lose even more weight as the body began to attack fat deposits and lean muscle mass in an effort to ward off the perceived starvation that was imminent.

Nutritionists look on in horror as the crash diet made so popular by this star is now sweeping the high school and teens everywhere are seeking to emulate this disastrous form of malnutrition. Stay away from this fad diet and do not mistake it for a colon cleanse; while it may have flushed out Beyonce's colon, it also contributed to the serious physical side effects that have not yet become obvious but that in the future may quite possibly endanger her life.

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