Juice Fasting For Health
Juice Fasting For Health
Modern living exposes you to a range of toxins, both in the air you breathe and the heavily processed foods you eat. While your body works hard to cope with this constant influx of toxins, the unfortunate truth is that it is overwhelmed and becomes stressed as the result. Because of this, you may be suffering from any of a range of symptoms.
The question is, what can you do to assist your body in coping with this? One thing you should consider is juice fasting as a beneficial method of detoxing yourself. It can help in a variety of ways, including the treatment of biochemical imbalances, reduction of serum cholesterol, allergy treatment, and so on.
The idea behind juice fasting is that you provide your immune system the opportunity to concentrate its action on eliminating toxins because your body does not have to focus energy on the digestive process. Health care practitioners who promote this method believe that by fasting for 3 or more days, you will enter a state known as autolysis in which your body begins to digest its own tissues.
While this may not sound like a good thing, it will begin with tissues and cells that are either aged, dead, diseased, or otherwise damaged. In addition, your stomach will contract and achieve a state of lower acidity. As you begin to eliminate these toxins, you may experience some temporary detox symptoms, such as headaches and fatigue. However, these symptoms will pass, and afterward you will experience improved health and a sense of well-being.
So you might wonder what fruits and vegetables you can juice. The good news is that you can make virtually any vegetable or fruit that you would consume raw into juice. Particularly good choices include: carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, and celery.
To help make your juice fasting a success, here are some tips:
Tip #1: for delicious juices try combining fruits and vegetables, like tomato, apple, and celery, or carrot and apple juice.
Tip #2: Remove the skins of any fruits and vegetables you want to juice, particularly if they are not organic. Pesticide and herbicide residue may be on these skins. And when you wash whatever you juice, do so in distilled or filtered water.
Tip #3: Don’t drink the juice straight. You will find it much more satisfying if you dilute it to a ratio of about one part juice to one part water.
Tip #4: Only do your juice fasting with juice you make yourself from fresh, preferably organic produce. Processed juice from the grocery store (or anywhere else) will have been heat-treated, which obviates the value of the fast.
Tip #5: Prepare your juice fresh. Part of what you are after are the food enzymes only present in freshly made juice from raw produce. The best way to do this is to get yourself a juicer and keep plenty of raw, organic produce on hand while you do your juice fasting. Why not start today?
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