April 11, 2010
Valuable Considerations On Juice Fasting And Your Wellness Regimen
If you restrict your morning menu to liquids only, you will be doing a lot to help your body repair its natural cycles. If you like to have breakfast every morning, by sticking to juices only you can still maintain this habit. As juices may be easily carried around, the chances are that you can persuade your spouse or your kids to indulge in this healthier habit.
Fasting on juices, or drinking vegetable juices regularly is not hard, and it has tremendous health benefits, if you do it right. This means choosing the best and HEALTHIEST method of cleansing your body of the buildup of toxins that have accumulated over days, weeks, months, and, for some of us, even years! You can fast once a week with vegetable juices and drink mostly vegetable juices almost every morning for breakfast, which is a healthy way to keep your body fresh, strong, and best of all, healthy!
For your morning meal, select something light and centered around holistic nutrition, leaving you energized and ready to attempt anything that the day has in store for you! At breakfast time, you’re looking for something easy to digest and fruits and juices are ideal, high in nutrients, yet with few calories. Not to be compared with fried bacon and eggs! You should also consider that your stomach will be empty when you wake up in the morning and this is a good time to perform a cleanse with fresh vegetable juice. You will not have to worry about constipation anymore with this form of holistic nutrition.
I want to tell you how easy it is to take on board the concept of holistic nutrition and transform your life. We’ll start by asking a few simple questions: What’s in your wellness regimen? Does it include aerobic exercise? Adequate rest? Meditation? Do I eat nutritious food? Ideally, your regimen should include on top of this juice fasting to cleanse and revitalize the body.
Picture the vitality of fresh juices flowing through your digestive tract as you begin the body cleansing process of juice fasting. If you like, you can picture these juices as a powerful river, replenishing your body with antioxidants, vitamins and essential nutrients, while eliminating those mucus forming foods from your food chain.
Mucus forming foods? They sound terrible! In a nutshell, these are foods that are acid forming, reducing your body’s vitality and making recovery difficult. Foods with a higher acidic content include dairy products like milk, butter, and cottage cheese. Not surprisingly, this list also includes fish, poultry and meats. If you haven’t already made the connection, they’re foods you likely buy at the grocery store every week and consume as part of your regular diet.
When you fast with juice, you get rid of the buildup of messy mucus in your system that takes place when you consume acidic foods — it sounds graphic and upsetting, but that’s the way it is. It also cleanses the body of chemicals, toxins, and other harmful materials that you consume, inhale, or otherwise absorb through your environment. At the same time, the healing properties of the fresh juices revitalize and rejuvenate the body.
Juice fasting is a great way to tune up the body from the inside out. Your internal systems and organs will thank you for this and you will aid in weight loss, make your skin look much more vibrant and it will leave you with more energy too. There are many other health benefits to be enjoyed, as well.
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