21 Pounds in 21 Days: The Martha's Vineyard Diet Detox by Roni DeLuz; James Hester

Author:Roni DeLuz; James Hester
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 0061242098
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2007-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

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ALL ABOUT JUICES AND SOUPS

Marsha is a forty-three-year-old medical doctor. She’s also a triathlete, competing around the country in high-endurance competitions emphasizing running, biking, and swimming. Before the season begins, she prepares herself by going on a week-long juice fast. Juicing, she says, gives her lots of energy and makes her body quick and limber. She does this at the Inn retreat, where she takes three juices a day. Marsha also claims juicing makes her mind sharp and clear.

Once a year we also host a group of four women bikers. They do a juice fast every year before their twenty-five-mile bike race. Having done this for many years, they know exactly what they are doing. The first time this group of women arrived at our facility, I didn’t recognize them as being athletic. I thought they looked tired, stressed out, and pale. Four days later when I saw them again, I literally didn’t recognize them. I was shocked by how good these women, who were clearly in their mid-fifties to sixties, looked. Each of them had lost weight, color had returned to their faces, and their personalities were lighter and more fun. Even though I am in this business, even I was amazed.

Juices put oxygen in your body and give you a lot of energy. They’re particularly helpful for people who are ill. When people who have been very sick nourish themselves intensively by drinking fresh juice, they can spring back up very quickly. In fact, a review of 4,500 studies conducted around the world found that if people ate at least five servings of fruits and vegetables daily, worldwide cancer rates would drop by more than 20 percent.1 Other research shows that by eating a variety of fruits and vegetables you can reduce your risk of developing heart disease; high blood pressure; type 2 diabetes; and cancers of the bladder, breast, colon, esophagus, larynx, lungs, mouth, pancreas, pharynx, prostate, ovaries, rectum, and stomach. Though the government recommends that Americans consume at least five servings of fruits and vegetables daily, during the Martha’s Vineyard Diet Detox, we’re going to consume at least twenty-two servings a day. The vast majority of those will be vegetables, since vegetables both cleanse and feed. It will be easy to eat these extra servings, which we’ll drink as fresh live juices and soups.

Maximizing Vegetables’ Cleansing Power

Among the best ways to maximize the amount of nutrients we receive from vegetables is to juice them or cook them into delicious veggie soups. While the average person cannot eat a pound of carrots or any other vegetable, they can drink the equivalent amount of juice, and with it consume far more nutrition than they could eat with a knife and fork. You can obtain more nutrients in one eight-ounce glass of fresh vegetable juice than in an entire week’s worth of fast-food or take-out meals.

Rather than buying store-bought brands whose enzymes are depleted, we’ll make fresh juices so their enzymes are still alive. Enzymes create a spark of life in the body that you can feel as soon as you swallow.

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