master cleanse

[Andy]

who's coming with me?

[Martin]

Please explain

[Andy]

I kind of just want to see if I can do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_cleanse

[Spoony]

I know what he's talking about. Run Martin! Run like hell!

I tried it earlier this summer, and it was the biggest waste of health I've ever experienced.

You eat nothing for ten days, except for a concoction of water, lemon juice and maple syrup (not unpleasant, that concoction) and guzzle salt water in the morning, and drink laxative tea at night. The idea is to flush everything out of your body. You know, poo...chemicals..."toxins."

But really all you do is lose all your water weight and become a space case from the drop in blood sugar. And then you probably get the flu. "But it's the toxins leaving your body!" someone with a beard might say. Nope, your immune system is shot from having nothing to run on.

Please don't do this to yourself.

[Martin]

I'm running, I'm running!

[Andy]

I heard its awesome and spoony just wants to hog I all for himself.

spoony- can you drink as much water as you want, or are you limited to the 6 drinks a day?

[Julie]

Enough cheap liquor will clean you right out. And I'm suspicious of any cleansing that doesn't include pureed spinach and oranges. I will do the monkey diet cleanse, though. Anyone up for that?

[Spoony]

I have achieved Skeleton Power and no one else may possess it!

You can drink as much water or lemon-juice mix as you want, but after a few days, you're still going to be walking into traffic.

[Julie]

I have achieved Skeleton Power and no one else may possess it!

You can drink as much water or lemon-juice mix as you want, but after a few days, you're still going to be walking into traffic.

Don't be a fool! This lemon water thing is child's play.

What about a bulemic cleanse?

[cutout]

C'mon guys.


http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/gastro.html

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/07/your_friday_dose_of_woo_mere_regularity_1.php

http://www.ncahf.org/articles/c-d/colonic.html

[Gilly]

Somebody watched The Office debut.

[Spoony]

Oh, I am decidedly in the Anti-Cleanse category. Please don't think I'm advocating this.

[Andy]

we have a guy in our office that's doing it.  his name is Kelly.

Seriously, now I just want to see if I can pull i off.  I know that any kind of fad diet/cleansing is too good to be true.

[yesno]

if you're a beer drinker and stop, you'll lose 10 to 20 lbs and keep it off.

Another way to lose weight is rails/cigarettes.

[John Junk 2.0]

Also, what if it actually worked.  What then?  Stop eating?  You don't wanna muck yourself up again!  

My feeling is that people who get into this stuff are really just in the market for some kind of onanistic anal and/or scatological fetish that they can't get a handle on, and this is a socially acceptable way of exploring.