What is Juice Fasting?
Juice fasting for
health
There are several kinds of fasts, from
those for religious reasons that fast until sundown to
those who take nothing but water for long periods. If
the juice fasting is for health purposes, it makes sense to
support your body's needs while you reduce or remove
some necessary elements from your diet.
The basic elements that we need to remove from our diet
for the sake of our health are cooked food and animal
products. This includes the denatured packaged products
such as white flour, refined sugar etc. and all animal
products such as red meat, poultry, fish and eggs. The
only animal product that is usually allowed is a little
honey for sweetening purposes. The best single method to
accomplish these ends is to juice fast.
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In order to do this properly, you will need a juicer
which is a machine specifically made for this purpose,
It is nor a mixer or a blender. It is not a citrus
juicer. it is a device that is made to deliver vegetable
juice out of a spout while the fiber is deposited
another way.
Juice fasting for weight loss
Some people may enter a juice fast as a way to address
some disease condition. Others may use a fast in order
to detoxify their body or to lose weight. For whatever
reason you may chose to juice fast, one dramatic element
is the immediate and dramatic loss of stored body fat.
This has multiple health benefits.
Much of the toxins stored in our body are in our body
fat. Metabolizing the fat forces the toxins into the
blood stream where the body processes them to be
eliminated. This elimination is not entirely done
through the alimentary canal and the urinary tract. A
major organ of elimination is the lungs. We will breathe
out some toxins in our breath.
Toxins in the body
Another major organ of elimination is the skin. We will
not only exude toxins from the surface of our skin,
causing people to bathe frequently every day, but the
skin may erupt in boils as the toxins, especially petro-chemicals
accumulate in boils.
As we realize the great load of poisons we have carried
by the amount of toxins that are being discharged, we
can wonder how we survived at all. One lady of my
acquaintance was so severely involved by the heavy
discharge of chemotherapy chemicals from her skin that
she constantly showered. Also, her breath was foul and
her mouth had a chronic horrible taste.
This was all accomplished by juice fasting.
On the other hand, I also know a man who was only
slightly affected by the discharge of toxins from his
body, as he lost a pound a day for 28 days.
It all depends upon what is the challenge to your body
to detoxify and how your body, in its own wisdom,
'decides' to lose the stored poisons.
How long to stay on a juice fast
The 'rule of thumb' is to stay on the juice fast until
you have been free of detoxification symptoms for two
days. These symptoms can be rather severe, making one to
believe that 'the cure is worse than the disease.'
However, this is certainly not true in the long run.
It is possible, during an extended fast, that a person
may have more than healing crisis. You know that you are
succeeding when you have a healing crisis. In cases of
severe illness, some practitioners provide a juice
fasting program for, perhaps, three days a week and the
rest of the time the patient eats normally of selected
fresh fruits and vegetables.
Meat in the diet
Meats are not a part of a recovering patient's diet,
especially during the critical detoxification period.
After that, some practitioners allow the patient to have
small amounts of animal protein sources such as two
ounces of white fish or an egg a week. Other
practitioners do not allow their patients to eat any
animal products during their recovery or sustaining
periods.
The prohibited foods include all animal flesh of any
kind, including fish, poultry, eggs and dairy products.
The only exception for some is the inclusion of a
tablespoon of honey once a day for sweetening.
A strict juice fast is necessary until a good recovery
is established. This may take from several days to three
weeks or more. Almost always, there is immediate
evidence of the success of the fast. The patient will
know the next day, the family will know in two or three
days and the doctor will see measurable results within a
week or so.
The above juice fasting article was written by Guest Writer,
Bob Davis. |
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