Hi,

Are we able to live of juices, not for a short period of time but indefinatley ?

Different types of juices, im thinking green juices carrot and cellery juice and fruit juices.
Do we actually NEED to eat the whole food ?

Paulie.

I wonder how an permanent all juice diet would effect colon health ?

It's perhaps feasible if the juice had some fiber (pulp) in it. But you'd have to add some kind of oil/protein powder to it. You'd get deficient in aminos & EFA's pretty quick (I imagine within a year) on an all juice diet.

---IF "thick" gently squeezed (not blended/mixed by blade or centrifuge) juices from fresh raw organic sun-ripe high-water fruits...?

---...WHY NOT...?

---...IF, done in a setup of not mixing different fruits together but one type of fruit at a time, in a "mono" sequential style of drinking, in slowly tasting and "chewing" the juice and stimulating the building of saliva manner, AND doing all that ONLY when true hunger/thirst of the body IS present, preferrably with a good rest and "short" fast in between the juice meals...

---regarding the colon and the whole digestion-elimination system of the body..., I do not see any problems, IF body is allowed to having undergone a complete rest in a few fastings in order to heal-recover-purify and regain enoughly balanced state and high health level...

---I suggest complementing this type of feasting setup with a mindful frequent relaxed deep breath of fresh clean air, plenty of sun exposure, avoiding of unnecessary stress (physical/mental enervation), as well not over-exercising, and not avoiding to sleep enough, and seeking to experience much stillness of NOW... (...- well, these things are a good complement to living allways, and while practicing any type of feasting setup)...IME..





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/02/2009 02:54PM by justin1.

would we really get deficient in EFA and protein ?

Would we need a certain amount of fiber ?

Fiber would be my concern. We need Arugula here but the last time she posted a few people got snarky with her. (Please come back!)

I wouldn't want to live off of just juice... but I have friends who seem to live off of Diet Coke and Cheetos and they can't figure out why they are so tired all the time!



ARUGULA PLEASE COME BACK!!!!

paulieGB Wrote:
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> Are we able to live of juices, not for a short
> period of time but indefinitely?
I'm convinced we can. The only problem is
Calories. Plus, I think it would be much better to follow
an Alkaline diet of Wheatgrass (or other greens if wheatgrass
is not available), Carrot, and Celery juices, rather than Fruit
juices. Amounts of carrot and celery pulp are optional
to control weight, but that may not be enough........WY

It is not really healthy with just juice life Paulie. We need fat and protein.
If you are in vegetarian, you can get the protein from soy otherwise get some low fat meat like fish or chicken breast. Of course not to mention a lot dietary fiber like banana and veggies.

But if you want to clean your colon try Aloe Vera Juice. I tried it myself and it works.

Hey Trysomething - this is a VEGAN forum

DITTO ON THAT ONE! JANICE

Wheatgrass Yogi Wrote:
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> paulieGB Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Are we able to live of juices, not for a short
> > period of time but indefinitely?
> I'm convinced we can. The only problem is
> Calories. Plus, I think it would be much better to
> follow
> an Alkaline diet of Wheatgrass (or other greens if
> wheatgrass
> is not available), Carrot, and Celery juices,
> rather than Fruit
> juices. Amounts of carrot and celery pulp are
> optional
> to control weight, but that may not be
> enough........WY



Cool,
i wasn't thinking of having just fruit juices. maybe watermelon juice, but the rest carrot and cellery juice and green juices, im not convinced we need that many calories if we fast for long amounts of time, like fasting all day and eating or juicing at night.

But now im thinking of fasting then having a juice and a meal at night.( not sure about the meal though )

paulieGB Wrote:
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> Cool,
> i wasn't thinking of having just fruit juices.
> maybe watermelon juice, but the rest carrot and
> cellery juice and green juices, im not convinced
> we need that many calories if we fast for long
> amounts of time, like fasting all day and eating
> or juicing at night.
That's fine, just go with your feelings, and
modify as you see fit. I've just about decided that Liquid
is the way to go for me.....including an afternoon Green
Smoothie, as well as Juices in the morning.....WY

Juices makes my stomach ache. I just go for water. It's all fine.

The lack of fibre would be a big issue, aswell on the blood sugar levels just constant amount of sugars with no fibre cant be good.

Too strict in my opinion and bound to become deficient in many nutrients.

No.

I've done long juice fasts. 50+ days. Felt so great just kept going. Eventually, despite the amount of calories.. started getting hit with intense hunger pains that were just intollerable. I tried ignoring it for a couple days playing the "detoxing something" game but I lost taste for the juices even with the variety. The hunger pains went away when I ate food again and even raw food I once hated tasted good.

I don't know about blending.. I lose taste for that too. I hate blending fruit/vegetables together..food combo reasons and just doesn't seem to sit right. I'm not crazy about bananas so that's a problem. Lately I'm actually noticing that I get fuller on eating a pound of grapes vs. drinking and blending them..haven't experimented enough to be sure though.

I think when one is still on the teat, all liquid is as Nature intended. Meaning, we develop teeth for a reason.

paulieGB

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