The Master Cleanse detox diet, also known as the Lemonade Diet was created by Stanley Burroughs in 1941 and made popular by Peter Glickman through his book Lose Weight, Have More Energy and Be Happier in 10 Days, which promotes Burroughs' regimen to a modern audience.

A very good edition of the Diet Detective weekly e-news, discusses claims, fact, and fiction about various "power" juice on the market, including Minute Maid enhanced orange juice and Promise energy drinks. With many of them, you're better off just eating fruit as they have extra ingredients including sugar and more calories than you'd want.

Drinking green tea has numerous health benefits for the skin, digestion, and cardiovascular system, with beneficial effects on blood pressure and cholesterol. The benefits of green tea for dieting have made green tea or green tea extracts a common ingredient in many weight loss supplements.

South African scientists at CSIR isolated the active ingredient in these specific plants, and obtained a patent on the molecule in 1995. It is a steroidal glycoside, which they named P57.

Diet pills use natural ingredients capable of prolonging life and containing alcohol used in medication or flavoring. That is advisable to avoid taking diet pills as substitute for cutting calories without the doctor's recommendation.

Aspartame is a molecule composed of three components: methanol, phenylalanine and aspartic acid. When ingested or heated, the methanol (wood alcohol) converts to formaldehyde (an embalming fluid) then formic acid (the active ingredient in household limescale remover).