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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
Juice Fasting for Weight Loss, for Detox and a Lot More
Do you know that one of the most powerful health therapies used throughout the world is juice fasting?But what is juice fasting and what makes it a powerful therapy?
We know that there are several kinds of fasting that different individuals practice in whatever way that suits to their needs, reasons, and preference. It may vary from those for religious reasons that fast until sundown to those who take nothing but water for long periods. If the 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. And the basic elements that you need to take out from your diet are cooked food and animal products. This includes the denatured packaged products such as white flour, refined sugar, and all animal products such as red meat, poultry, fish and eggs. The best single method to accomplish these ends is juice fasting.
Juice from fresh fruits and selected vegetables is full of live enzymes which are helpful to the body. Unlike coming out from a packet, the juice is fresh and not pasteurized. Pasteurization may have its conveniences but it has resulted in nutritionally dead foods. During pasteurization, high heat is used and this destroys the vital nutrients within the juice. Digestion of the jfruits and vegetable nutrients is much easier.
Our body is in fact, like a juicer. When we eat a celery, our body will digest the celery by extracting the juice to get the necessary nutrients. The fiber is then eliminated via the colon and bowel movements. Here are the other benefits we can get from juice fasting:
- Fasting gives the digestive system a rest. Since fresh fruit and vegetable juices require little digestion, and are quickly assimilated from the upper digestive tract, most of the 10% of the bodies energy normally involved in mastication, assimilation, digestion, and elimination is freed up. The end result is a sense of renewed energy.
- Juice fasting helps in breaking down toxic materials (fat, abnormal cells and tumor) and releases defective tissues and their cellular products into the circulation for elimination. Detoxifying literally means removing poisons from the body.It is the poisons that make us feel tired, mentally confused, irritable, unhappy, depressed and ill.Once these poisons are gone, you will feel energetic,frolic, and healthy.
- During fasting, new cell growth is stimulated and accelerated as the required proteins are re-synthesized from decomposed cells (during autolysis). Your serum albumin reading - blood-protein level - remains constant and normal throughout your fast, as your body uses protein and other stored nutrients where needed.
- Compared to water fasting, juice fasting is a much gentler process of detoxification. For a juice fast, a broad variety of fruits and vegetables should be used in combination. In this manner, the body still gets its daily calories from the easily-digested juices as compared to the more extreme water fast. Thus, the release of toxins from the fat cells in a juice fast is much gentler and gradual.
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 have in choosing the juice fast, one dramatic element is the immediate and dramatic loss of stored body fat. 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.' To a healthy clean body, fasting comes as natural as eating. For most health conditions, juice fasting is the best method to transform health.
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