Angelina Jolie is doing the lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup detox diet on the set of her new movie "Salt" and it appears to have some of her co-stars and crew members a little anxious over her health.
Angelina plans to lose 21 pounds.
The last I heard, everyone was worried about her losing weight, so why is she trying to lose more?
Well it seems one of her disguises in the movie is...a man.
So she is trying to lose her curves to do a more realistic portrayal.
The problem is that Angelina is doing her own stunts, and the detox diet is, according to sources, leaving her weak, dizzy and light headed.
You do NOT want a dizzy and light headed stunt woman.
From what I am reading, it seems she is using the Master Cleanse diet created by Stanley Burroughs in 1941.
The diet itself was made popular in Peter Glickman's book, Lose Weight, Have More Energy and Be Happier in 10 Days.
Burroughs didn't only say that the diet would make you lose weight, but that it also remove harmful toxins from within the body, cure ulcers and "every kind of disease" in the body.
He was later convicted of unlawfully selling devices he claimed could cure cancer, and practicing medicine without a license.
Angelina is not the only celeb to embrace this diet.
Beyoncé did it for 14 days and lost 22 pounds.
Although afterward she denounced using the cleanse as a weight-loss program.
Howard Stern's co host Robin Quivers told People magazine that she went from 218 pounds to 145 pounds on the cleanse.
Despite celebrity use, most doctors say the system is potentially dangerous.
