Juice Fasting

Your first impression on fasting may draw the conclusion this is a quick-fire weight loss program. Yes, you will lose fat and weight but that is short term. Long-term simply put you cleanse the tubes and pipes in your body.

Juice fasting is a detoxification one to three day diet when done currently, can eliminate toxins in the blood, lymph, liver, kidneys, bladder, lungs, sinuses, and clears the skin. It is a safe and healthy do-it-all detoxification rolled into in one.

During the fasting cycle, your daily food intake consists only of organic vegetable and fruit juices along with six glasses of room temperature water. To stave off hunger drink a vegetable or fruit drink ever ninety minutes throughout the entire day.

Some of the health benefits are:

• Weight Loss
• Lowers blood pressure
• Delays the onset of age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s
• May help prevent heart disease
• Cleanses the medicines out of your body
• Gives body chance to repair and eliminate waste
• Reduces allergies
• Mental clarity
• Restful sleep
• Improves life longevity

Before you can start a juice fast you will need to extract the fluid part of the vegetable and fruit without losing the vitamins, minerals and enzymes they contain. Buy a good juice extractor, not a blender. This is important or you blend a baby-food like substance instead of pure raw vegetable or fruit juice.

Try to juice no more than three different types of vegetable or fruit juices together. Also, do not combine the two. Juice a mix of vegetables or a mix of fruits. Best health benefit is to juice individually, one vegetable or one fruit.

There are six categories of fruit and vegetable juices.

1. Acid fruits – orange, grapefruit, pineapple, and lemon
2. Vegetable fruits – tomato and cucumber
3. Leafy green vegetables – lettuce, cabbage, spinach, parsley, and watercress
4. Root vegetables – beetroot, carrot, onion, and radish
5. Sweet fruits – prunes and grapes
6. Sub-acid fruits – apple, pear, peach, plum, apricot, and cherry

For breakfast make sure you’re loaded with plenty of vitamin C. Fruit juice high in water content and sugars will flush your system quicker than greens which are high in energy.

Peel and pit fruits before you place them into a juicer that includes grapes and cherries.  Remove seeds from apples. Peel the rough skins from mangos, kiwis and avocados. Remove skins from citrus fruits. Just because your juicer can swallow the fruit whole, do note you will lose vital vitamins and minerals if you keep the skins and pits.

This also includes vegetables. Peel carrots, beets, cucumber, beets, tomatoes, and zucchini squash. Try not to juice potatoes or eggplant.

During a juice fast, your stomach will shrink to its original size, which is the size of a fist. Do not be alarmed if you lose craving for solid foods. After a one to three day cycle, you should slowly reintroduce solid foods into your body by eating brown rice or green salads.

The benefits of a juice cleanse is that it is one of the purist forms of detoxifications for your entire body. After the fast you will feel recharged, rejuvenate, and renewed.