Juice Fasting and Detoxification: Use the Healing Power of Fresh Juice to Feel Young and Look Great

Review Update: Feb 14, 2011If I had to choose one book to introduce people to fasting this would have to be it. It took watching a movie about fasting to really get me interested. Before reading this book I also had a juicer but had stopped using it for some reason. I guess I was lacking in motivation until I gained what seemed like five pounds in one week. I suddenly felt a sense of panic at the loss of control over my own weight and I wasn't eating differently from normal.Maybe you want to lose weight or release toxins or rejuvenate and refresh your body. Fasting might be for you. But I wouldn't try it without reading up on it online and also reading a few books. There are methods for easing into a fast and also things you should eat when stopping a fast. There are dangers involved if you don't know what you are doing. And I mean dangers like a heart attack! You don't want to suddenly stop a fast and go out for dinner that same night. The body can't handle the abrupt changes.So what will this book teach you? First it explains who should fast and who should not. It also explains various types of fasts. While discussing "Breatharianism" he doesn't indicate how many days the body can survive without water and only air. I assume such a drastic fast is only for one day. I have chosen the "liquitarian regime" and have been able to lose a pound a day. This might seem too fast but it sure feels freeing. There is nothing like the instant gratification of stepping on the scale and seeing you have actually lost another pound in a day. On this fast you can have broth which seems to satisfy my hunger and I have four juice drinks a day. I can also have soy protein shakes if I wish and have chosen to have one a day at night. It is really a lot easier to be on this fast than to think up things to cook each day! It also only costs about $14 a day for the fruits and vegetables you need.This book seems to have a little of everything and the section on how to choose a juicer is very helpful. However, I found most of the juicers were fairly expensive. You can get a juicer much more cheaply and I'd recommend  Black & Decker Fruit & Vegetable Juicer Extractor .Most of the books I've read on juicing say that you can't keep juice fresh and that you should drink it immediately. This book gave some ideas for how you can store juice effectively in a thermos. This is helpful for people who are fasting and still need to go to work.The only thing this book really lacks is set plans for juice fasting. For that I'd recommend reading  The Juice Fasting Bible: Discover the Power of an All-Juice Diet to Restore Good Health, Lose Weight and Increase Vitality . There are also just a few recipes and they are mostly carrot based. I tried one of the recipes and did like the combination of carrot, cucumber, bell pepper, parsley and beet. The truth is you really don't need many recipes at all. You can just buy whatever fruits and vegetables appeal to you and then go crazy with all sorts of combinations. Of course some things will taste better than others but I've found most juices I've made have turned out to be quite good. I will say that the green juices are really a little more difficult to drink than the fruit juices which are deliciously sweet. But if you just think of your health first they are easy to drink.If you are looking for books with lots of delicious juice recipe I've reviewed quite a few. Here are my favorites: The Big Book of Juices: More Than 400 Natural Blends for Health and Vitality Every Day Juiceman's Power of Juicing The Juicing Bible - has a small section on fasting Juicing for Health The Juice Lady's Juicing for High Level Wellness and Vibrant Good Looks Ultimate Juicing: Delicious Recipes for Over 125 of the Best Fruit & Vegetable Juice Combinations ~The Rebecca Review

I bought this book in 1997 in a health food store, and lost 66#'s in 4.5 months. I got so thin that my friends thought I'd contracted, well, the "pandemic-type killing illnss of the day..." Now, the book is not a complete program, and it has some things in it that look more opinion than extert factual experience. It also accuratelt, but perhaps incompletely, warns about the need to exit the fast "carefully," and that has been my bugaboo. Exit poorly and expect to gain all the weight back. That may happen anyway, without a more thorough plan, which straight juicing can never be, but if you need to drop weight qiuckly without pure water-fasting, this could be your way.Warning: Gallstones could result, as you consume almost no fat, so the bile cal solidify. Read up on combating this.Those who whine about a lack of recipies -- those books and info is everywhere! I'd much rather have a book that teaches me how to do it, then gives me recipies which I can find by typing a few things into my browser (which I did not myself have in 1997!).For the "original" book on juice fasting, there's always Paavo Airola's "How To Keep Slim, Healthy & Young With Juice Fasting." The vegetable broth recipies alone make that book worth it as well.

An easy read, Meyerowitz provides a general understanding and explanation of water, juice, liquitarianism, breatharianism fasting. The benefits of each and suggested lengths for fasting. This allows the reader to fast at a rate and with the method (such as drinking only water during the fast vs drinking highly nutritional juices during the fast for example)that is comfortable to them. Although the author considers water fasting the "true fast", he presents options for readers who may not feel comfortable with ingesting only water during their fasting time.I am a raw foodist and have fasted many times. I refer to my usual fast as a juice "feast" as I drink green juices throughout the fasting period and at a level of comfort knowing that I am nutritionally fed. That "feast" normally runs between 7 and 21 days depending on the season and my tasks at hand. I do however fast for shorter 3-7 day periods drinking only water. The water fast does as Meyerowitz guides, require some scheduling, quiet, lower activity and compassion for one's process of detoxification that occurs.This book is probably not as appropriately titled as it could be as it reads more about different cleasing options in fasting as well as the benefits of "juicing", colon therapy, and the accessibility of high quality methods of extracting nutrition from vegetables and fruits with juice extraction machines.I thought the author did a solid job of presenting the basics of cleansing and detoxification. This is not the book for someone who desires an indepth study or discussion of any one of these areas. This book is a quick educational guide for the fasting novice and a confirmation of alternative options available to the experienced fast participant.The book's main strength is the clarification and offering of considerations that the reader can pick and choose to make that fasting period effective, beneficial and comfortable to them. With varied lifestyle demands, any reader can find at least one of these methods that will fit their schedule and pace demands.As always in health, take it slowly, learn about your body and allow your fasting regimen to evolve at a pace that is beneficial, cleansing and compassionate to your entire wellness.

Well here is the thing: yes it is a very good book that explains a lot, but there is nothing in it one couldn't find in other books or by browsing the net.I also didn't feel it made every step of Fasting understandable, as it is mainly written in Text Blocks from whom one must extract the steps on how to Fast. For a complete Beginner I would assume that this is a bit complicated and maybe daunting. I'd always prefer idiot proof step by step guides.

you can read everything in his book in his articles on the net!also it is rather insubstantial as a book.i don't think he is right about everything either.

Very informative, a good read lots of different fasting types, could have done with some colour photos just for aesthetics but not needed I guess

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Nice book