Is A Juice Fasting Diet For You?
A juice fasting diet is an easy way to lose excess water weight, cleanse toxins from your digestive system, and feel better.
Fasting Before A Doctor's Visit
Think about the last time you had a health check-up or diagnostic tests done at the doctor's office. What did they tell you to do beforehand? Depending on the type of tests you had done, you probably had to fast for 12 to 24 hours.
It's been reported that what you eat can affect the amount of cholesterol in your bloodstream, so if you had a cholesterol test, you had to fast so your blood could get back to its normal levels of cholesterol.
If you had a test involving your digestive tract, you had to fast and perhaps drink a cleansing solution, so your doctor could start with a cleaned-out system. Under these medical fasts, the patient eats nothing and drinks only plain water.
What Is Involved
Under a juice fasting diet, you eat nothing and drink only water and pure, raw vegetable and fruit juices. A juice fasting diet is said to accomplish some of the same purposes as fasting before a doctor's visit: it can reset and cleanse your body's systems. The two components of the diet are what is excluded from the diet, and what is included to replace the excluded elements.
What Not To Eat
On this diet, cooked food and animal products are removed from the meal plans. Refined foods like white flour, granulated sugar, and hydrogenated vegetable oils are cut out entirely. Likewise, animal products like meat, poultry, fish, eggs, milk, cheese, and sour cream are all excluded.
Excluding these processed foods and animal products may make the juice dieter feel noticeably better and have more energy in just 24 hours.
What To Eat
A juice fasting diet is entirely plant based and raw. Dieters should extract their own juice to ensure they receive nutrients packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. The juice fasting diet is somewhat counterintuitive, because the juice on a fast should be fiber-free, and dieters have been told that fiber is good for a diet.
Proponents of the juice fasting diet understand the importance of fiber in the everyday diet. In a juice fasting diet, however, part of the energy boost comes from the fact that the body does not have to spend energy digesting food. If the dieter eats fruit or vegetable pulp, the pulp must be digested. That is why the fruit and vegetable juices consumed during a juice fasting diet should be juice only, free of any fiber.
