There is much evidence to support the idea that man is designed to live on a vegan diet. The length of our digestive tract and the design of our mouth are those of a vegan animal. When we don’t run our bodies on the fuel that it was designed to receive, our bodies must learn to live on the wrong food. For this reason, the bodies that are designed to last for 120 years fail in half that time, and we call it ‘normal’.
Juice fasting is the process whereby you consume only freshly made vegetable juices. Bottled juices as used in the Hollywood Diet are not useable as they have been processed to destroy the essential enzymes that are vital to a successful juice diet.
Juice fasting delivers a heavy dose of nutrients because the nutrition is in the juice. You won’t need to worry about sufficient fiber as your experience will reveal. Throw out the pulp, you have already extracted the nutrients by juicing.
A juice fast is a drastic correction to our behavior and our bodies make a radical response as is evident by an immediate improvement in our health. Sleep is more refreshing and our eyesight may dramatically improve.
A big benefit from this diet is that the results are immediate, realizing the difference the second day. The increased feeling of well being is tremendously encouraging and you are eager to stay with the program as you see the pounds melt away.
One huge benefit is the immediate release of stored toxins in body fat. This sudden release can cause distress as the toxins are released into our bloodstream in preparation of their being eliminated, and this can cause a person to believe ‘the treatment is worse than the cure’ as the body starts to repair the damage caused by a lifetime of abuse, so a drastic juice fast may not be right for everybody without special consideration. Some people are able to live on a juice fast and others may crave the support of meat in their diet and actually may not be happy on an extended juice fast.
The solution for these people is to enter into it more slowly by reducing their portions of meats and cooked foods and increasing their portions of raw fruits and vegetables until they are content with a vegan diet. This may take several weeks, but it is surprising how your body may react when it adjusts to the diet change. In my case, I was disgusted by the smell of cooking meat – I couldn’t stand it.
This preparation may be necessary for some people before they can comfortably enter into a juice fast of several days or weeks. When you are prepared, you start by taking only freshly made fruit and vegetable juices several times a day. It is important that the juice be drunk as it is prepared as storing it, even in a refrigerator, allows the air to destroy thy enzymes that are essential to digesting the nutrients. We have heard that fruits and vegetables should be eaten separately. This is because vegetables have slow digesting fiber and fruits do not, so they pass through our systems at a different speed. Vegetable juice does not have the large amount of fiber, so it may me mixed with fruit juice which can provide a pleasant change from the flavor of the same vegetables voiced over and over.
As you feel more energetic and as your total calorie intake has been reduced, your body will support your metabolism by using your energy reserves, your stored body fat. Make sure that you get at least moderate exercise to keep the demand for energy up.
My experience with those who go on this program is that they are surprised by their rapid loss of weight, They are surprised at their feeling of well being, surprised that they are not hungry, surprised that they are not bothered by an appetite for restricted foods They are surprised by how fresh is their mouth and breath, and how confident they are that they can continue the process for as long as it takes to achieve their goals.
A frequent concern is; “Where do we get our protein?” If you think about it, you realize that cows need protein too and all their needs are supplied by the vegetables they eat. The leanest meats we eat are only half protein and some vegetables are nearly half protein. It may be that a short juice fast of several days may not require particular consideration for protein, but a juice fast is not intended to be ‘forever’. However, many people benefit from periodic juice fasting. If you can adjust your body to accept a vegan diet, it will be necessary to add some cooked foods such as whole grains and legumes to supply protein, but the juice fast remains as the most effective way to restore the health lost by our poor diet.
Guest writer, Bob Davis, cancer-success.com
