5LBs in 5 Days: The Juice Detox Diet. Jason Vale

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      What became very clear to me early on when the letters and emails started flooding in was just how many apparent ‘different’ ailments and diseases improved at the same time. The medical profession’s focus tends to be on ‘a pill for every ill’ philosophy and they try to treat each ailment or disease separately with different pills. What appears to be obvious to me now, is that when you remove all of the rubbish coming in and flood the body with the right nutrients to address any vitamin, mineral or other nutrient deficiencies, everything has a chance to heal. I didn’t take a specific juice to treat my asthma, eczema, hay fever, psoriasis or obesity; I simply removed all of the rubbish coming in and flooded my body with the finest nutrients in the most bio-available form – fresh juice.

      I also wish to point out at this stage that I am all for intelligent, and often much needed, short-term, and at rare times, long-term medical intervention. I also don’t believe that every single disease will be cured or made better by a fresh juice. However, the vast majority of common lifestyle diseases, the ones we are popping pills like they are going out of fashion for, do indeed get better when you treat with fresh natural juices.

      This ‘one disease – one solution’ hypothesis is not simply based on my own experience. It is based on the tens of thousands of testimonials I’ve had over the years and from what I have personally seen at my retreats for years. I am convinced that if you remove all the rubbish coming into the body and address all of the nutritional deficiencies, the vast majority of lifestyle diseases will either improve dramatically or go away completely. This is an intelligent hunch based on 15 years’ worth of research.

      I put this ‘hunch’ to the test in my Super Juice Me! documentary: a group of people with over 22 apparent diseases living on nothing but juice for 28 days. Trust me, it makes interesting viewing – and the results will blow your mind! I am hoping in time it will start to affect the way the medical profession approach healing and disease.

      I think this is still a long way off, unfortunately. But, the more people start shouting from the rooftops about how great they feel after getting rid of all the rubbish going into their body, while flooding their system with the finest plant nutrients through fresh juice, the more they will have to sit up and take notice.

      Luckily, it is not lost on all in the medical profession and things are starting to change. More and more are understanding that nature’s finest nutrient-packed liquid fuel contains something often way beyond any human or scientific understanding. More and more people in the medical profession are no longer relying on the ‘evidence’ produced by the pharmaceutical reps, who bombard them with the latest drug that can cure obesity as well as just about every common ailment. They are using common sense and starting to believe in the power of plant-based foods and the body’s ability to naturally heal itself. I am not anti-doctor; a doctor has even written the foreword for this book, but I am anti certain doctors and certain dieticians who, despite what thousands are reporting, still close their minds to any plant-based ‘food as medicine’ approach to healing. The good news is though, it’s not all doctors and the message is slowly filtering through:

      Hi Jason,

      I'm a GP, for my sins, and have been following your programmes for the last 2 months, prompted by a serious illness in January that left me unable to eat anything except juices and smoothies. I've lost over 2 stone (28lbs) in that time and am now telling patients about it. It's working for me whereas in the past other diets (rather than changes in lifestyle, as this is) have not … I think this is something that is realistic and that people can do. I've never eaten as much fruit and vegin my life, and am enjoying it and also am full on it. My type 1 diabetes control is improving…

      On a professional note, people far prefer to take a tablet (which is easy) than do something hard like totally change their lifestyle. I will continue to advocate you to patients and colleagues – I know I'm only one GP amongst thousands but every little helps I guess.

       Kate

      And yes, every little does help, as people tend to listen to what a doctor has to say on the subject of nutrition. You may feel that’s an intelligent thing to do, but it’s worth knowing that the average doctor in the UK spends just three to six hours of their six years of training studying nutrition. No, I am not kidding.

      The good news is you don’t need to spend years studying the fundamentals of nutrition in order to know what to do to have a slim, trim, energy-driven, ailment-free body. I have been studying health and nutrition for over 15 years and I have realized one thing more than any other: the more I study the less I know. What I mean is, we have so overcomplicated the issue of health and disease we have missed the simplicity of it. We have missed just how stupidly straightforward the answer to health can be. Do you remember when you were a kid and fell and cut your knee, what was the advice? ‘Leave it alone and it will heal itself.’ And that is all we need to do – give the body the right environment to be in a position to heal itself.