You also can visit
the lemonade diet
page for a four-part discussion on that particular fasting detox method. The lemonade diet
is another way to lose weight and detoxify your body, and it has become increasingly popular over the past
couple of years. For a step-by-step juice fasting/water fasting and detoxificatioin system,
check out our 9-month life-transforming Fastingology! course. If you are already a juice fasting
practitioner, then welcome. Don't forget to visit
Fasting Forum I and/or
Fasting Forum II and
share your experience and/or answer newbie questions!
Juice Fasting Lifestyle
The most important factor I want to emphasize about juice fasting and detoxification
is that it should NOT be a
ONE TIME event. Rather, my message is that juice
fasting -
little by little - can become a PERMANENT
fixture in your lifestyle. Change is always difficult at the beggining. But if you have
the desire and commitment to lose weight and get healthy, then juice fasting is an
amazingly-powerful way to attain these goals. My experience was no different.
I was on a never-ending see-saw. I would lose weight and feel great. But there was little or no
change in my eating habits, thinking, behavior or lifestyle. Inevitably, I would relapse into binging
and undo all of the progress. This went on for more than 10 years of absolute misery. Perhaps you
can relate. Maybe you have experienced how demoralizing it can be to spend years struggling
with food, eating and your weight and health.
Juice fasting and detoxification accomplishes two things: It facilitates quick weight loss,
AND cleanses the blood, vital organs and digestive system.
Detox cleansing, for its part, eliminates the toxicity that causes most cravings
for the wrong types of foods. Moreover, juice fasting and detoxification often fosters profound
emotional healing and even increased spiritual insight. I mean: How can you lose? What are you
waiting for? In my opinion, the world's best "healing" and "cleansing" agents are inside fruits and
vegetables. It's a win-win situation.
Fresh - Not Pausterized
One of the most important aspects of
Juice Fasting and Detoxification
is that the body benefits from the freshness of the fruits and vegetables ... nothing is processed or
pausterized. I would say that 98% of what I eat is raw and uncooked. This is at the very heart of
juice fasting and the vegan, raw food movement. When you eat
a carrot, the body digests it by extracting the juice for nutrition. The fiber is sent to the
colon and the rest becomes waste. Juice fasting and detoxification gives the body a direct
shot of the raw juice without it having to break down the fruit or vegetable.
The body receives maximum benefit from the nutrients and
Phytochemicals,
which we will talk more about on the following page. For more on raw food diets and the vegan
lifestyle, you can go to our page on
fruit fasting.
Phytochemicals are compounds found in many vegetables that have potent
medicinal properties. They are said to hold the key to preventing deadly
diseases as cancer, asthma, heart disease, allergies etc.
Here's a powerful example:
The phytochemical
Diindolylmethane found in broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and
kale is used as a treatment for recurring respiratory disease and a variety of cancers.
This type of nutrition is hard to come by via the often high-fat diets
many of us eat today. It is missing in the diets of millions of persons around the globe.
Millions of people spend years searching for a solution to their health
and weight problems, not realizing that nature itself has the answer to many
ailments through juice fasting and detoxification.
I am NOT putting down medicine or saying that it is not valuable. I
AM saying
that juice fasting and detoxification is a mighty way to prevent disease and
improve our health and lives. It is much better to do whatever it takes to keep ourselves
healthy than to have to deal because we never took care of our bodies.
Making it a Priority
I want you to realize the importance of making juice fasting and detoxification and the huge
impact that it can have in your life. A combination of fresh raw fruits and vegetables
supplies enzymes, vitamins, minerals, proteins and fats that your body so very much needs
for optimum performance.
The modern lifestyle takes its toll on the body more than you realize. So often, for lack of
time, we eat the wrong types of foods, cover up hunger with coffee or other stimulants, or
simply do not eat at all. That type of malnutrition is NOT
the type of fasting we are talking about here.
When cells are functioning correctly, vital nutrients are more easily absorbed into the body. This
results in the ongoing elimination of toxins, many of which hide in stored fat and the
walls of the colon. These toxins often result in skin problems,
cold and flu viruses, lethargy and tiredness, headaches and migraines, depression, bad
breathe and body odor. Your cells' energy can also be unbalanced by a poor diet, food additives,
lack of fresh fruits and vegetables, little or no exercise, stress and worry, smoking, alcohol,
drugs and anesthetics, among many others. It is amazing the immense amount of damage we do to
ourselves because we lose control of our instinct to eat.
The good news is that
most or all of these symptoms can - in many cases - disappear after a period of juice fasting and
detoxification. It takes hard work and determination, but the rewards are definitely up for grabs if
one is willing to pay the price. I am convinced that the solution to many of mankind's
problems lies in each person assuming responsibility for every aspect of his or her life.
We all need help sometimes. But doing nothing to keep ourselves healthy (physically and mentally) and
then running to a doctor when we "surprisingly" become ill is simply ludicrous. Juice fasting and
detoxification is ONE way that you can start to exert this
personal responsibility and do your part to make your life everything that it can be.
ARE YOU WILLING? Let us now move on and talk more about
phytochemicals and
The Miracle of Juice Fasting.
