Cold Press Juice Bible by Lisa Sussman

Author:Lisa Sussman [Sussman, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781612434148
Publisher: Ulysses Press

CHAPTER FOUR

CLEAN UP YOUR ACT

Juicing, cleansing and juice cleansing may seem the same, but they are more like one of those transformer bots than interchangeable thesaurus terms. You can juice and you can cleanse and you can go on a (preferably cold press) juice cleanse. Juicing simply means that you drink juice as a supplement to your regular diet or perhaps in place of a meal occasionally. Cleansing is when you eliminate most or all food from your daily diet (you might still have some solids but cherry pick out Diet Destroyers—aka DDs—like alcohol, nicotine, fats, dairy, caffeine, processed and/or refined foods, sugars, gluten and/or animal protein). Stricter cleanses lean more toward liquidating your daily menu, replacing all meals and snacks with a fluid. In a juice cleanse, that fluid will be around 64 ounces of fresh cold press juices for as little as one or as long as seven days. Longer is not recommended, as your body wants, expects, deserves and needs the amount of protein and fiber you really can only get from food to run optimally—drinking juice and nothing but juice for more than a week can end up being counterproductive as your body, in search of energy, slows down its metabolism rate and starts to feed off muscle mass. The longer-term dangers are difficult-to-reverse muscle and bone loss, electrolyte imbalances, malnutrition, organ damage, risk of high cholesterol and digestive problems, to name just a few. So when it comes to juice cleansing, you really can have too much of a good thing.

While there’s no hard scientific evidence that a cold press juice cleanse, or any cleanse, for that matter, will flush toxins from your body’s personal detoxifying system (your liver, kidney and colon), you do need a balanced diet consisting of minimally processed, nutrient-dense foods to keep those organs functioning at peak performance. So although doctors, scientists and nutritionists are still duking it out over whether there’s anything to health claims that any type of cleanse will give you Spock-like mental clarity, force-field your immune system and add a zip to your step and a twinkle to your eye, most agree that chugging heavy-on-the-vegetables juice for one day, three days or even a week will certainly make you feel more energetic and less bloated in the short-term because you’re staying away from the DD ingredients that have been shown to cause water retention and late afternoon sluggishness and encourage overeating.

In this context, a juice cleanse is really a way of detoxing your daily diet rather than your body. You reboot your palate and shift yourself away from bad eating habits by eliminating the foods you don’t need or want and giving your body easily digestible, tasty, healthy nutrition in their place.

But before you chuck all the food from your pantry and jump on the cleansing bandwagon (along with the aforementioned Salma Hayek, who has started her own green juice line, Owen Wilson, Blake Lively, Alicia Silverstone, Megan Fox, Gwyneth Paltrow, Miranda Kerr, Nicole Richie, Russell Simmons,

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