Ladies, are you sick and tired of those diets that only have you eating leaves? Then you're in luck, because the new weight loss fad in town is the ice cream cleanse. The ice cream cleanse may sound like an oxymoron, but it is an ACTUAL thing.
Could this be the diet we have all been waiting for? Gizmodo writer Brent Rose tried it out and he weighs in…
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It all started when Rose visited raw ice cream eatery Kippy's, an organic, raw, non-dairy ice cream shop in Venice, California. The shop was promoting an ice cream cleanse which intrigued him.
The ice cream is made of mature and organic coconuts and is sweetened with honey and other flavors. The way the cleanse works is that you do it for four days and eat a pint of ice cream in place of your five meals daily.
Rose said he bought 20 pints of ice cream for the cleanse which amounted to about $240. But why is it that this ice cream can help you lose weight as opposed to if you downed a carton of Häagen-Dazs or Ben & Jerry's? It's because the raw saturated fats from the coconut helps replenish the stomach, boosts metabolism, and detoxes the body.
The writer documented her cleanse and described starting off the first day with a raw coconut cream flavor sweetened in raw honey and additional probiotics. She followed it upwith an orange creme, dark chocolate with Himalayan Fire Salt, master cleanse, and superfood ice cream. The master cleanse and superfood ice cream particularly stood out because the former contained lemon and cayenne, while the other had bee pollen, raw honey, and cinnamon.
The consensus? Health expert Maren Rosen said that although coconut has a lot of healthy and anti-fungal properties, that too much of a "good thing" can be unhealthy. The writer lost about six pounds, but didn't feel like he looked any different than before and was concerned with the amount of saturated fat intake.
Eek! I'm anti cleanses like these because I definitely don't think they are good for the body. Even if you lose weight, the problem is you are bound to regain it once you eat normal again. How about we stick to a balanced diet instead of subjecting ourselves to these silly cleanses?
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