Hey i alreay know about the movie "fat sick and nearly dead" and decided I want to try the juice fast. I already juice once or twice a week but I have other food as well and only a glass of juice. I''m already dieting but I have gotten to the state of my diet where it''s just not working anymore, I have already lost 30 pounds, but I want to lose like 40 more. So my question is how long should I do the juice fast and how much juice do I need per day and also I usually make my juice with celery, carrots, and apples. Should I use more if a variety? Like ginger, tomatoes, lettuce, citrus fruits, etc? Thanks
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Juicing daily is a bad idea. It takes a lot of time, you throw away much of what you''re paying for as well as much of your nutrition, and you may suffer GI problems more often, especially if you juice veggies, not to mention that juicing is not as healthful as you think. In general, juicing on a daily basis is a bad idea. My juicer is sitting in a cupboard somewhere gathering dust. If you wan to drink healthy, drink water.
The problem with juicing is the process eliminates much of the fiber and some of the nutrition available in the fruits and vegetables. However, it passes on the sugars and calories in concentrated form. The result is you miss the normal digestive processes and the satisfaction that goes with it so you''ll be hungry sooner. What you throw away when you clean your juicer is part of your food and that''s not only part of what you''re paying for, it''s part of what your body needs. For example, the fiber you lose when extracting juice will help keep that 15-20 foot long GI tract (smooth muscle) healthy and you regular.
Also, when you drink your juice it goes much faster because there is no mastication involved. That makes it easy to dump the sugars into your stomach before your blood glucose increases and suppresses your appetite. So, you can drink the juice and get all the fructose of ten oranges in half the time it takes you to eat one orange making eating rather than drinking the obvious best choice for dieters and the best way to get all nutrition the fruits and veggies have to offer.
Also, if the fruit or vegetable contains a systemic bacteria such as e.coli (which caused an epidemic among spinach eaters in the US a few years ago), you''ll get much more of the bacteria by juicing. The same applies to contaminants such as pesticides which are sometimes spilled in the fields and end up in the food in trace amounts. Juicing not only concentrates the good substances, but the bad ones as well.This is particularly important as green leafy vegetables are a major source of food poisoning. More here --> http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/255645.php
Time is another problem with juicing. If you can save one minute per day at the end of a year you''ll have six hours to spend doing what you want. That''s dinner and a movie. When you find out how much time is takes to shop for fruits and veggies, prep them, juice them, and clean up after, if you juice daily you''re going to spend about one whole week of 24 hours days (168 hours of your life) doing nothing but making juice each year.
Eating food is a natural process. Extracting juice and drinking it, it not a natural process. Generally, the natural way is better because we have evolved using it.
Fasting for fat loss is a bad idea also because it teaches you nothing about maintaining normal or low body fat so when you stop the fast (you can''t fast foever), you will regain the lose fat. Here''s why that''s important.
When you lose fat, you weigh less and, hence, burn fewer calories. Your BMR will be lower so you''ll have to eat less on maintenance than when you were heavier. And, losing the fat is only the beginning. Once fat is lost, you have to keep it off for the rest of your life and that may include such difficulties as the "Freshman 15", college drinking culture, soirées and social drinking, pregnancy, somatopause (age-related slowing metabolism), a more sedentary lifestyle, affluence and access to more expensive, tasty, and fattening meals, etc. This truth is born out by the fact the 3 out of 4 adult Americans are overweight or obese. That''s means only 1 in 4 adult Americans has a healthy weight. (See: http://www.obesityinamerica.org/statistics/index.cfm ). It only gets more difficult to stay slim as the years roll by. It never gets easier. So, now is the time to establish good eating habits...the kind that will keep you svelte and fit in the days ahead and for the rest of your life.
You should plan your fat loss program around good science and nutrition information and not around pop pseudo-documentary films.
Good luck and good health!!
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