The Juice Detox Diet 3-Book Collection. Jason Vale

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      The fiber is there to act as a “brush” to keep things moving in the colon, a job that the soluble fiber, and the fiber in the avocados, can do more than adequately. Plus I am far from suggesting you live a life on nothing but juice after the 7 days juice-only program, so you will be getting more than enough fiber in life. So on a nutritional front, you really can rest assured that you will have more genuine goodness going into your body during the 7-day program than the average person has in a month. However, ever since the first copies of this book rolled off the printing press in 2006 in the UK, the skeptics (which often consist of certain doctors/nutritionists and dieticians) continue to try and find evidence to substantiate their preconceived beliefs. They continue to “attack” despite the tens of thousands of genuine life-changing testimonials that clearly fly in the face of their apparent scientific “facts.” The reason I wish to cover each and every one one of the “attacks” before you start this life-changing program is not simply to reassure you and explain in a very rational, commonsense way why this is perhaps the healthiest rapid weight-loss program in the world, but more because there is almost no question that you will be on the receiving end of the attacks yourself. I can guarantee you that by even voicing that you will be living on nothing but freshly extracted juice for a week, the arguments will start. It’s a strange world we live in but say to anyone that you will be sticking two fingers up to healthy eating for a week and living on burgers, fries, and getting drunk and the reaction tends to be “Good for you—life’s too short.” However, tell them you’re cutting out all the junk from your diet and that you’ll be living on nature’s finest freshly extracted juice for a week and get ready to go head-to-head.

      Now we need to understand that part of this is often due to their own fear of your getting thin and looking amazing. After all, no one wants a hot, thin friend! OK I’m being a little jovial, but there is more than an element of truth in that statement. What I mean is, by simply voicing that you are about to jump on the road to the land of the thin and healthy, it often highlights that they are not. This often creates an unconscious fear, which in turn causes the friend to “attack” what you are doing so you will stay on the same road as them. Obviously this isn’t always the case and at times the “attacks” are born out of a genuine concern based on the scaremongering fallacies they have read. Hopefully by the time you start with the program you will either brush aside any attacks—as you will know the truth—or you will be armed with enough knowledge to counter any such arguments. With that in mind, there has been one argument that has come up more than any other since I first wrote this book and its one I didn’t even think about when I first wrote it:

       WHAT ABOUT THE SUGAR?!

      In fact, as I write this update I have just come back from a tour of Dubai, Australia, Turkey, and the UK and the one question journalists were asking more than any other was “Yes, but what about the sugar?” This led me to write a small piece on Facebook that I have expanded here because I think it’s vital that you fully understand what I felt was the frighteningly obvious …

      The Sugar in an Apple is Not the Same as the Sugar in a Doughnut!

      And the sugar in a soda is not the same as the sugar in freshly extracted apple juice! You may feel this doesn’t need to be covered. You may feel that it’s obvious that the white refined nutrient-lacking sugar found in a doughnut and soda is clearly not the same as the unrefined vitamin and mineral-rich “sugar” found in an apple or the juice extracted from it. But ever since the late Dr. Robert Atkins’s famous “don’t eat carbs whatever you do or you’ll explode” diet (I believe better known as a high-protein diet) and all the subsequent copies of pretty much exactly the same theme since then, such as “Dukan,” it appears our rational thinking has taken a vacation. My mother always taught me, “The problem with common sense is that it isn’t that common,” and I fear where the subject of sugar is concerned, it’s disappeared completely for many. Most people are so “over read” in the area of diet and nutrition that often they don’t stop to think with a commonsense head on—they simply believe what they have read and then preach it as gospel. This is why I don’t want you to simply buy what I am saying either. Always have an open mind and if something makes rational sense to you, then apply it; if not, don’t. But don’t simply go along with a school of thought simply because it was written or told to you by a doctor or dietician or because it’s been “scientifically proven.” Often we don’t need science but simply our own intuition and common sense. With this in mind let me ask you a question: If you were addicted to refined sugars and you had a mother of a sugar craving would an organic apple cut it for you? Would an apple hit those sugar buttons for you? NO! Why? Because “THE SUGAR IN AN APPLE IS NOT THE SAME AS THE SUGAR IN A DOUGHNUT!” If it were we would have Easter eggs made of fruit and children and adults would be just as happy, but they wouldn’t be happy because in the same way an apple wouldn’t satisfy a smoker’s need for nicotine an apple won’t satisfy a sugar addict’s desire for refined sugars! It’s refined sugars and refined fats that are the biggest cause of preventable disease in the Western world and without question they are the biggest cause of the seemingly unstoppable obesity epidemic. It is not the unrefined vitamin-, mineral-, and soluble fiber–rich life-giving juice found at the heart of all nature’s finest foods. This is why you could have a fridge full of fruits, vegetables, and lean proteins and if the average “sugar addict” opened it they would say, “Where’s the food?” Unless there is refined sugar or refined fat in the mix, they feel as though what’s in the fridge just won’t cut it. It’s also why although there’s an NA (Narcotics Anonymous) an AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), and even an SA (Sugar Anonymous) but you will never see a FA (Fruit Anonymous)! People just aren’t “hooked” on cucumbers, avocados, or apples (they are all fruits), despite their apparent high “sugar” content. You also will not find a FEJA (Freshly Extracted Juice Anonymous) either. Why? Because, and I am fully aware of how annoying repetition can be, so for the final time: the sugar in fruit is not the same as the sugar in a doughnut. It’s also the reason why if someone were to eat apples all their life and suddenly went on a “no apple” diet they wouldn’t get headaches, anxiety, the shakes, or any of the other “withdrawal” symptoms people experience when trying to break a refined sugar addiction. One sugar is pure and comes attached with a multitude of other micronutrients and soluble fiber, and the other is completely lacking goodness and has effectively been transformed into an empty druglike substance. Plastic and gasoline are both by-products of crude oil, but nobody in their right mind would suggest you can run your car by putting cut up plastic in your tank! However, the “all sugars are the same” brigade often miss this fundamental point. They miss that something like broccoli is much, much more than the carbohydrate “sugar” contained within. They also miss the fact that humans, even the ones with letters after their names, don’t fully understand the complexities of nutrition contained within the foods nature provides. And I guess that is the biggest problem—humans think they know everything about everything and believe they have discovered “every element” worth knowing about in nature’s foods. Some of the top scientists continue to believe this despite the fact that “new” photochemicals are being found all the time in fruits and vegetables. They continue to believe that “all sugars are the same” despite knowing that every single nutrient reacts differently in the body depending on what it is combined with. For example, if you eat an orange with spinach more of the iron will be absorbed when combined with the vitamin C in the orange. So isn’t it possible, and again I’m just throwing it out there, that we simply do not know everything about the tens of thousands of different and unique nutrients found in the liquid of all fruits and vegetables nor what exact effects they have on every cell in the body? Isn’t it also possible that we have only found, and therefore only know about, a tiny fraction of tens of thousands of nutrients contained within the super fuel juice locked inside the fibers of all fruits and vegetables? Just because the “science” of today says something is “fact,” it doesn’t necessarily make it so. Just because the current science can pinpoint only the small number of vitamins and minerals we have found and named, it doesn’t mean there aren’t thousands СКАЧАТЬ