This book explains how to fast using raw fruit & vegetable juices while maintaining a nearly normal work and living schedule. Includes: Juice recipes, detoxification techniques, exercises, weight loss, water fasting; organs of elimination; how to handle a "healing event," and how to come off a fast safely.

From the Back Cover of Juice Fasting & Detoxification

The human body has an incredible capacity for healing and longevity. Within it is an intelligence more powerful than any drugs or a surgeon's knife. Fasting gives your body the well deserved vacation it needs to repair itself. The power that made the body can heal the body. Fasting and juice therapy revamp your health from the inside out. This book shows you how to tap that power and how to fit it into a busy lifestyle. It's easier than you think. Even just one fast day per week provides 50 rejuvenating days per year. Give your cells and yourselves the opportunity to cleanse, nourish, rejuvenate and heal.

The Power that Made the Body Can Heal the Body

Increase Energy and Improve Mental Alertness
Heal Chronic Ailments without Drugs
Lose Weight without the Hassle of Diets
Maintain Stamina with Absolutely No Hunger
Fast at Home or at Work-Perfect for a Busy Lifestyle
Make Quick and Delicious Juice Recipes
"Fasting is the "Elixir of Life". This book is a classic on juice fasting. It shows you how to enjoy this delicious and wonderful elixir. I have guided more than a 1,000 people through juice fasting and from now on I will be recommending this book to all the people who are fasting at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center." -Gabriel Cousens M. D., Director, Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center. Author, Conscious Eating and Spiritual Nutrition and The Rainbow Diet

"Fasting and detoxification are the missing links in American nutrition. They're the most important healing tools I use. Meyerowitz does a fantastic job in explaining these fundamental rejuvenating concepts for everyone to understand." -Elson Haas, M.D., author of The Detox Diet and Staying Healthy Shoppers Guide

"Steve lives and practices what he believes in. His sincerity and knowledge is evident as one peruses the pages of this very enlightening work." -Dr. John Heinerman, author of Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Healing Juices

"Nature has carefully packaged its nutrients into the cells of fruits and vegetables. Fresh juices are the fastest route to those nutrients. Steve Meyerowitz provides a succinct guide to the art and health of using juices." -Donald W. Novey, M.D., author, Clinician's Rapid Access Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine

TABLE OF CONTENTS
(Partial Table of Contents)

INTRODUCTION

What Is Fasting?

HOW TO BEGIN
HOW LONG TO FAST

Short Fasts
One Day A Week
Three Days and Longer
One Week - 10 Days - Two Weeks
Long Fasts
Chemical Changes During Fasting

WATER FASTING
JUICE FASTING
TYPES OF JUICES

How to Extend the Life of Fresh Juice
What to Watch Out For

LIQUITARIANISM

Herb Teas
Vegetable Broths
Nut Milks
The Protein Myth
Wheatgrass Juice
Colon Cleansers
When to Use Vitamins and Herbs
Cold Drinks vs. Hot Drinks
Quality of Water

HEALING

Cycles of Healing and Detoxification
Symptoms of a Healing Event

METHODS OF DETOXIFICATION

The Organs Of Elimination
Exercises for Detoxification

LOSING WEIGHT

What Can You Expect?

PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FASTING
COMING OFF THE FAST

Knowing When To Stop
Those Who Should Not Fast

SPIRITUAL FASTING
REVIEW of Basic Principles
HOW TO BUY A JUICER
RESOURCES Where to Get More Help & Information
INDEX

Reviews

"Dear Steve. I don't know if you remember me, I attended a workshop of yours ab
out 12 years ago. I have long been a fan of your sprouting books including your hysterical kitchen garden cookbook. But that is not why I am writing you now. Today I am on the 22 day of fasting and I can't believe that I'm doing this. What is even more incredible is that I feel quite normal. Really, better than normal. And why I'm writing is mostly to say thank you. Your new fasting book is awesome. I've read Ehret and Airola and they're great. But yours is easily the best fasting book I've read. I always knew I needed to detoxify. But how--that was scary for me. Your book helped me like a guide holding my hand." -B.J. Williamson, New York, NY

"I just want to thank you again for your books. You infuse such enthusiasm into your writing. I can feel the pages smiling at me. Your fasting book inspired me to begin my health renewal program which I can truly say is the best thing I've ever done for myself. At 48, I am more active, more alert, more flexible than my 30 year old sister-in-law. Even my memory has improved and more unbelievable, my eyesight is slightly better, too. My sister-in-law wants to know what I'm taking. "Nothing!" That's the point! It's what I'm not taking! I never even considered fasting until I landed upon your book. I stopped after achieving 50 days-a true marathon. But now I'm religious about one day a week.

"Please put me on your mailing list for your workshops in my area and any new book announcements. Again, a heartfelt thank you for your dedication and all the support you've given (through your writing) me." -Meloni T. Jennings, Scottsdale, AZ

Author's Comments

Food is one of the most powerful addictions in life. At 900 billion dollars per year, we spend more on food than on our homes! It is our second greatest living expense surpassed only by the medical care we sometimes need to correct our dietary overindulgence. With all this food and over-consumption, is it such a wonder that the #1 best selling drugs in America are names like Tums, Pepto-Bismol, Alka-Seltzer, Rolaids, and Digel?

Man can survive on only one third of his daily food intake. The other two thirds goes to benefit the health insurance and medical care industries.

The human body, if not compromised by overconsumption, bad food, bad air, polluted water, stress and emotional trauma, has an incredible capacity for healing and longevity. Within it is an innate intelligence more powerful than any drugs or a surgeon's knife. Fasting gives your body a well deserved vacation and the potential to repair itself. It's easier than you think. Even just one fast day per week provides 50 rejuvenating days per year. Give your cells and yourselves the opportunity to cleanse, nourish, rejuvenate and heal.

Fasting helps increase energy and improve mental alertness; Heal chronic ailments without drugs; lose weight without the hassle of diets; maintain stamina with absolutely no hunger. Fast at home or at work-it's perfect for a busy lifestyle and all the while enjoy dozens of quick and delicious juice recipes.

The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.
-Benjamin Franklin

View an Excerpt from Juice Fasting and Detoxification

You can live without dietary protein intake for extended periods, but not air or water. How necessary is protein? Your body uses it in its daily tasks of manufacturing tissues and cells. This is the building phase of metabolism known as anabolism. During a fast, the body's metabolism changes gears and increases the breaking down and cleaning out work--catabolism. Protein is not required for your body's cleansing phase, and as long as you are detoxifying, protein in the usual large quantities will not be needed. Think of building a house vs. cleaning a house. Protein is like wood--essential structural material, but not necessary when cleaning.

Protein is in every plant and animal. Even carrot juice has protein. Of course, some foods have more protein than others. But it is a mistake to assume that protein-rich foods are your only so
urces of protein. True, some of our liquitarian recipe recommendations such as adding a tablespoon of wheatgrass powder or spirulina to your juices or drinking almond milk are increasing your protein intake during your fast, but these are only intended to be used sparingly. Fasting is a cycle of cleansing, stabilizing and resting. Maintaining balance--alternating cleansing, resting and normal activity--is part of the art of fasting. These liquitarian recipes, with their extra protein, can help during times of activity and enable you to stay on your fast longer. The benefits of longer fasting are worth it. Water fasters cannot cannot maintain a normal lifestyle and cannot fast as long. But the fasting process is generally a time to avoid extra protein intake because it slows down detoxification.

A recurring desire for protein, however, indicates that the body is ready to terminate the fast. The cycles of cleansing and stabilizing and cleansing again have turned enough times and your body is wanting to stop the cycle and build again. You can never predetermine the exact length of your fast. You must listen to your body and accommodate its needs. The great call of hunger has returned and protein intake should start to increase. But don't get obsessed about protein during your fast. Typically, you need it a little bit on the way into the fast and on the way out, but not much in-between. Listen to your body and not to your fears or those of your friends.