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    The Juice Fasting Bible: Discover the Power of an All-Juice Diet to Restore Good Health, Lose Weight and Increase Vitality
    The Juice Fasting Bible: Discover the Power of an All-Juice Diet to Restore Good Health, Lose Weight and Increase Vitality
    The Juice Fasting Bible: Discover the Power of an All-Juice Diet to Restore Good Health, Lose Weight and Increase Vitality
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    The Juice Fasting Bible: Discover the Power of an All-Juice Diet to Restore Good Health, Lose Weight and Increase Vitality

    By Sandra Cabot

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    A holistic doctor shows how juice fasting can help you detoxify your body, boost energy, burn fat, and lose weight—includes nutritious juice recipes.

    In today’s world, it is vital to detox! And there is no better way than by doing a juice fast. Fresh juices are bursting with healthy ingredients: antioxidants, vitamins, natural antibiotics, beneficial nutrients, anti-inflammatories, and even enzymes that vastly improve digestion and flush the intestinal tract.

    The Juice Fasting Bible helps you harness the natural rejuvenating power of juices to improve your quality of life, enhance fitness, provide extra energy and even lengthen your lifespan. It shows how you can turn your love of juice into something wonderful for your body.

    The Juice Fasting Bible guides you step by step through the entire cleansing process:

    • Finding the Best Fruits and Vegetables

    • Choosing the Right Fast

    • Handling the Fast with Ease

    • Enjoying Glorious Juice Recipes

    • Ending Your Fast Properly

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 28, 2007
    ISBN9781569754429
    The Juice Fasting Bible: Discover the Power of an All-Juice Diet to Restore Good Health, Lose Weight and Increase Vitality

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      The Juice Fasting Bible - Sandra Cabot

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      Benefits of a Juice Fast

      Really, is there anyone who doesn’t love a glass of freshly squeezed juice? Or, if you think love is too strong a word, perhaps enjoy is more your style? Either way, we could be talking about any kind of juice—orange or apple, grapefruit or mango, pineapple or tomato. It’s a matter of personal taste and preference, since the list is quite extensive…and becomes even more so if you count vegetable juices as well. But we’ll get to that in a while.

      For now, let’s just relish the thought of what it means to drink a glass of our favorite juice. In my case, it’s usually a combination of several juices, which I often rotate from day to day, for variety. First off, juice is flavorful—that’s its very essence. Few things please the tongue more. A glass of juice also refreshes us, in a way that colas or one of the many trendy energy drinks could never be. Is it possible that our bodies—unlike our minds—aren’t fooled by mega-million-dollar ad campaigns?

      Fresh juices are also bursting with all kinds of healthy ingredients: antioxidant vitamins, natural antibiotics, enough beneficial nutrients to stock a health-food store, and anti-inflammatory substances that protect your body’s cells as well as reduce pain. Juices even contain enzymes that can improve your digestion and cure some intestinal diseases.

      So, if something tastes good and is good for you—and it’s also easy to obtain and usually quite affordable—can you think of any good reason not to drink plenty of juice? I doubt that you can. But, as you may have gathered from the title of this book, we actually are talking about more here than merely drinking an occasional glass of juice. Rather, we’re talking about living for a period of days, or even weeks, on nothing but raw, fresh juice.

      Now, while the idea of drinking juice—even a lot of it—appeals to most people, the idea of fasting, even with juices, may not. I’d say that love is a word few people would ever associate with fasting, and for the vast majority of us I would imagine that the same holds true for enjoy. Fasting, as far as most people are concerned, conjures up less-than-pleasant images, such as deprivation, exhaustion, cravings, and a gnawing hunger inside. That sort of feeling, frankly, is quite understandable—with much of the blame falling squarely in the lap of the media, which tell us (or, more often, don’t tell us!) the truth about fasting’s benefits.

      Trace Fasting to Its Natural Roots

      By definition, fasting is the voluntary abstinence from solid foods over any length of time. It’s a practice that dates back to at least the early days of Christianity and other religions, when it was seen as a way for a believer to purify the soul and prepare to receive atonement for sins. That belief and practice still exists today in some religions. But over the centuries fasting has also been adopted by a wide range of people in an even wider range of cultures, as a desirable way to cleanse the body, calm the soul, and heal the mind. Fasting can be a wonderful thing, as long as it’s done properly and not abused.

      These days, the only time you will read about fasting in the press, or see it featured in a television news report, might be when a political figure or a political prisoner (self-proclaimed or otherwise) wants to make a statement by starving himself or herself to death, or at least near-death. I believe that this is one of the reasons that many people have a negative image of fasting in general, without really knowing much about it.

      A general lack of acceptance by the mainstream medical community has likewise damaged fasting’s reputation. This ignorance (for what else can you call it?) has always puzzled me, because many of these same doctors have used fasting’s basic concepts to create an often-evil cousin: dieting. If done properly, fasting always works. As for the overall success rate of dieting…well, you be the judge.

      Ordinarily, contemporary dieticians and newspaper and television journalists have been conventionally trained to the standards of the day, and have not been exposed to the clinical practice of nutritional medicine to the same depth and breadth as I have been. So it comes as no surprise that many of the fasting articles or detoxing stories we might read in the popular press these days are negative, condescending, sensationalistic, or cynical. Well, let me tell you, the health-care providers mentioned in those stories have usually not treated patients as sick as those I’ve helped, nor have they witnessed the power of juice fasting as I have done.

      It’s true that a deep-seated fear of hunger turns many people off to the possibility of fasting, as well as to its benefits. It’s a sad fact that in today’s world, large numbers of people have serious food addictions. The evidence is all around us, from food-industry advertisements, to the waiting rooms of doctor’s offices, to the long lines and even drive-through lanes at fast-food restaurants. It’s a hard fact, but a true one, that few addicts would willingly part with their drug of choice, which in this case is poor-quality food.

      My hope, however, is that after you read this book and learn the truth about juice fasting and its extraordinary benefits, then you will become as convinced as I am that there is no better way to improve your overall health—and your quality of life. Part of the beauty of what you are about to discover is that you can begin your journey to better health doing something as simple, and as delicious, as drinking a glass of your favorite juice.

      Avoid Digging Your Own Grave

      Whoever came up with the old saying that You are what you eat was definitely on to something. This makes it all the more tragic that the vast majority of people in the United States and other developed nations ignore this powerful bit of folk wisdom. And that tragedy has been compounded over the past generation or so, as more and more scientific evidence has shown that many of the most common, and potentially fatal, diseases are directly related to our eating habits.

      I suggest a better paraphrase: You are what you eat…and what you eat just might kill you. I also like the expression, The way many people eat today, they’re digging their own grave with their teeth.

      The average American’s diet features absurdly large amounts of refined and processed foods, heavy with trans fats and sugar and practically oozing chemical additives and preservatives. Most commercially raised meats—beef, chicken, and pork—also contain a smorgasbord of additives, which range from growth hormones to antibiotics. And as if this weren’t enough to send your body and its elimination systems into overload, imagine the added effect of excess alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine (including secondhand smoke), not to mention polluted air. Then, let’s not forget all the pesticides and herbicides and other chemicals that are sprayed on most of our orchards and fields and vineyards, to say nothing about all the plastics that are ubiquitous in our lives. Our waterways become filled with chemicals from plastics, dyes, and even drugs prescribed for people that get improperly flushed down the toilet or are eliminated in their urine.

      The Environmental Health Laboratory at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC, for short) conducts the most extensive assessments ever done on the exposure of the general U.S. population to environmental chemicals. It publishes the results every two years in its National Report on Human Exposure to Environment Chemicals, which the CDC claims to be the world’s leading document on general population exposure. What you’ll read in these reports is nothing short of horrifying.

      The Third National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, the most recent edition, updated the published results from the previous report, in which samples from the 2,000 people tested turned up measurable levels of lead, mercury, cadmium, and other metals; dioxins; PCBs; pesticides; herbicides…the list goes on and on. In total, the Third Report updated previous exposure information on 148 different chemicals and included first-time information about another 38 chemicals. That’s no fewer than 186 potentially harmful chemicals that were discovered lurking within the bodies of average Americans—that would be you and your family (but not me, as I’m an Australian!).

      As I analyzed this information and tried to absorb the enormity of the problem, I could only surmise that it’s truly a testament to the strength of the human constitution that most of us in the industrialized Western world manage to live even to adulthood, much less to a ripe old age.

      Understand the Body’s System for Eliminating Toxins

      So, if the food that we eat, the water that we drink, and the air that we breathe are all contaminated (to certain extents) with toxins, how do our bodies deal with all these poisons and still survive?

      From the day we are born to the moment of our death, our bodies are processing all that we eat, drink, and breathe—turning some of these substances into useful and beneficial compounds that help us stay healthy, while at the same time filtering, transforming, and eliminating toxic substances and waste products. It’s a full-time job, with no days off, and these days a lot of overtime is required.

      DODGE THE POISONED ARROW

      Toxic derives from the Latin word for poison as well as the Greek word for arrow poison. The noun toxin is derived from that ancient adjective and is included in the International Scientific Vocabulary. Toxins are poisonous substances produced by a living organism’s metabolic activity; they must be broken down or excreted before they can build up to dangerous levels. So, whenever we think about toxins arising in our body, we might get a little boost to make some changes in our lifestyle—maybe by imagining poison-tipped arrows being shot directly into our cells.

      I think we all agree that ridding our bodies of poisons and toxins would be a good thing, and would certainly be beneficial to both our short-term and our long-term well-being. In a healthy person, the human body is genetically programmed for self-detoxification, so to speak, with the skin, liver, kidneys, intestines, and lymphatic system leading the way. The lungs, colon, and gallbladder provide additional help. In other words, our bodies were designed to naturally eliminate anything they consider toxic.

      Liver

      The chief engineer of the detoxification process is our liver. It performs hundreds of functions, such as breaking down various toxins into less-harmful byproducts. To simplify what is actually an extremely complicated process, the liver changes fat-soluble toxins into water-soluble byproducts so they can then be eliminated from the body via watery fluids such as bile, sweat, and urine. If your liver does not do this, these toxins remain trapped in the fatty parts of your body—for example, your adipose tissue (that is, connective tissue that stores fat) and your endocrine glands. Little wonder that many people who have become overloaded with toxins

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