Go for JUICE FASTING OR NOT?
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.
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 benefits of juice fasting helped me to feel better physically and mentally
I continued to study and found books on juice fasting. As a teen I had tried water fasting and ended up vomiting over the toilet on the third day. Juice fasting made sense. I bought a cheap juicer and started experimenting. My favorite was cantaloupe juice. Second was honeydew and third was my veggie combination of carrots, apples, lemons, celery and beet. After several short juice fasts of three-to-seven days, over a one-year period, I felt better physically and mentally. The benefits of these short fast encouraged me. I started working out in the gym and eating healthier. My body healed enough to return to work but I was still tired—standing on ladders caused intense pain in my legs.
What I understand from what you wrote above that this juice fasting also helps changing ones sex..I mean female to male...:)________________________________________
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Turn ordinary fruit into succulent delights!
Our Family's Favorite Fruit Salad Recipe
2 bananas, sliced
1 apple, cut into chunks
1 orange, peeled and cut into chunks
1 cup cantaloupe, made into balls
1 cup watermelon, made into balls
1 pear, cut into chunks
1 mango, cut into chunks
unsweetened coconut flakes
Dressing:
1 banana
1 orange, sectioned
1/4 cup coconut milk
3 tsp. natural jam (your choice)
Blend until smooth.
Add a little orange juice if you want a thinner sauce.
Gently combine all of the fruit with the dressing and place into attractive serving dishes. Lightly sprinkle with unsweetened coconut flakes.
Fruit Salad Mix and Match
Take any of the fruit that you currently have in your fridge.
Examples: apples, oranges, bananas, strawberries, melons, pears, etc.
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Cut the fruit into bite-sized chunks.
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Mix the chunks together with 2 tsp. fructose (or Stevia to taste)
Place the fruit in an attractive dish and line the inside rim of the dish with low-fat cottage cheese.
Tropical Fruit Salad
1 mango, cut into chunks
2 kiwis, peeled and sliced
1 orange, peeled and cut into chunks
1 large banana, sliced
1 papaya, cut into chunks
1/4 cup coconut cream, thin with a little orange juice if it is too thick
Dressing:
1 banana
1 orange, sectioned
3 tsp. natural jam (your choice)
Blend until smooth.
Gently combine all of the fruit with the dressing and place into attractive serving dishes. Drizzle 1 tbsp. of the coconut cream over each salad.
Juice fasting works because it does two things at once:
1. Removes Toxins–Eliminates life-robbing toxins that hinder the body's God-given recuperative abilities.
2. Increases Nutrients–Floods the body with nutrients that energize the body's natural regenerative abilities.
My life radically changed! For the first time in years I was pain free. Instead of suffering, it became a joyous experience. The healing came like water to a parched, drought-stricken heart. The thirty days of fasting on juice was a miracle that changed my life. Not only was my health renewed, but I also experienced vitality, energy and clarity of mind, and the aging process was drastically reduced. Next to becoming a Christian, this fast had the second greatest impact on my life.
To go from sickness to health in 30 days was more than I believed possible. Changes so dramatic demanded answers and that hunger for understanding birthed the writing you now hold in your hand. I wanted to understand why fasting healed so powerfully and how to support that healing through diet. I wanted to help others who had health problems. Although I could not spell or type, and had almost no writing skills, a burning passion kept me going.
A thirty-day juice fast was the turning point in my life. The first few days were difficult, but as I continued I felt much better. At the twentieth day of the fast, I started working fourteen hours per day at hard, physical labor in the hottest summer weather. I climbed the ladders with ease. My energy level drastically increased.
There were other improvements as the fast went on. I needed less sleep, my mind cleared, and my memory was now functioning. Leg muscles returned to health, and back pain lessened due to the healing of my kidneys, leaving me a virile young man.