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My personal recipe for the lemonade:
Combine In a clean, empty one gallon container:
1) 96 ounces steam distilled water;
2) 16 ounces Pure Grade B Maple Syrup
(Pure Grade A Maple Syrup from a health food store will work in a pinch, but has
less nutritional value as it is heated to a higher temperature during
production. DO NOT use maple flavored pancake syrup which is made up mostly of
refined white cane sugar and has no nutritional value);
3) 16 ounces fresh squeezed lemon
juice (approximately 6 lemons, HINTS: soak the lemons in warm water just
before juicing and they will yield more juice! An electric citrus juicer makes
juicing easier, especially if you are on the diet for many days and in need of
the juice from dozens of lemons. I don't make more than a day's worth (1 gallon)
of lemonade at a time to insure freshness.)
4) 10 to 12 Capsules of 100 HU (Heat
Unit) Cayenne Pepper ( I buy bottles of 100 capsules at my local health food
store and open the capsules as needed. Powdered Cayenne for cooking is also
available, but not usually labeled for Heat Unit content. I generally do not add
the Cayenne to the gallon container, but pour the lemonade into four 32 ounce
containers and add 2 to 4 capsules of Cayenne depending upon my mood and the
time of day. I prefer more Cayenne in the morning (3 to 4 capsules per quart)
and less in the afternoon and evening (2 to 3 capsules per quart) but I always
use a total of 10 to 12 capsules per day)
OTHER:
Stanley Burroughs suggests that you may add more Maple Syrup per gallon if
you are trying to gain weight and less if you are trying to lose, but to never
vary the amount of lemon juice. He recommends that you eat absolutely nothing,
but may drink additional distilled water if you desire.
Dr. Leonard Horowitz allows that one may eat a small amount of organic bran
flakes (preferably in the evening), freshly made applesauce (made with the skins
on) and watermelon in the event of extreme hunger. By experimentation, I've
found that it's best to just drink more distilled water or cayenne spiked
lemonade to get through the hunger pangs. They are usually gone by the third
day, but if you "cheat and eat", they seem to stay with you the entire
time. Horowitz also recommends taking Flora Fit
once or
twice per week, a capsule containing beneficial gut bacteria, if you are on the
diet for extended periods (more than 10 days). I follow this recommendation and
take Flora
Fit when I am both on and off of the lemonade
diet.
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