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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.

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      By now you should be itching to get started – PLEASE DON’T! There are a few things that need addressing first to make sure you are fully armed for anything that comes your way. The last thing you want to do is buy a load of fruit and veg to find it making its own way out of the fridge later in the week! You don’t want to start something and then fail and you are far less likely to fail if you are equipped with the right mental tools before you start.

      To be honest, it seems insane that I even need to cover the following points, but after doing this for years, I know that unless I do people who don’t know any better will try and scare you off doing the programme. What you will hear (and you may even be asking these questions to yourself as you read this book) are things like, ‘What about all the sugar in the juices?’, ‘Where will you get your fibre?’, ‘Where will you get your protein?’, ‘Won’t you just gain the weight back again?’, and so on.

      All of these questions will be covered in this part of the book, but as I write this very sentence, as if by fate, I have just seen a famous UK TV doctor talking about my juice diets! (Yes, how weird!)He was banging on with the usual rhetoric, such as ‘it’s unhealthy’, ‘it can be dangerous’ and so on (which is all nonsense and which I will cover soon), but he also once again made a bold statement that I cannot ignore and one which I have heard many people in the medical profession level at me before…

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      The TV doc’s exact words were:

      Complete myth, there is no such thing as detox; it’s absolute rubbish. You have three perfectly good organs, your liver and two kidneys, which do all the detoxing you need…

      Technically, our TV doc has a point – the body does indeed detoxify itself with the help of its perfectly good organs designed to do precisely that. I am also fully aware that fresh juice doesn’t detox the body per se; only the body, essentially, detoxs the body. However, there are two fundamental points our TV doc, and many others, are missing when it comes to the word ‘detox’.

      Firstly, just because the body wants and is designed to do certain things naturally, it doesn’t mean it’s always in the position to do so. Take breathing for example; the body naturally wants to breathe; its very survival depends on it. However, if someone were to put their hands around your neck and start to lightly squeeze, or if you were caught up in a house fire, the body would have much greater difficulty doing what it naturally, and desperately, wants to do. Equally, if a person constantly puts more toxicity (refined sugars, fats, salts, alcohol, nicotine, etc.) into the body than it can detoxify (or eliminate if you will) efficiently, then it will struggle doing what it naturally was designed, and is desperate, to do.

      If, as the TV doc suggests:

      ‘...you have three perfectly good organs, your liver and

      two kidneys, which do all the detoxing you need…’ then, by that rationale, there is no need to stop smoking, curb heavy drinking, or cut down on junk food for that matter, as the body will do all the detoxing for you.

      It is more than clear that our detoxifying organs cannot always cope with the amount of toxicity coming in and they are not capable of doing all the detoxifying for us if overburdened. If they did, then no matter what we put in we would all be slim and healthy for life, and people like my beautiful mother wouldn’t have passed away so prematurely from stage 4 lung cancer due to the toxic nature of tobacco; her lungs would have simply detoxed it out. The more rubbish you pile into your body in the absence of live high-water content nutrient-rich foods and drinks, the more the organs have difficulty coping. Stop putting in the rubbish and, then yes, the body will indeed detoxify itself. So I agree that the body is essentially the only thing which technically detoxifies the body. I also agree that juicing per se does not detoxify the body. However, by eliminating all the toxic rubbish from one’s diet and supplying the system with freshly extracted juices, the body will then be free to do what it naturally wants and needs to do every minute of every day – detoxify!

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      Secondly, the vast majority of people will be doing this five-day juice-only detox to lose weight and kick-start a healthy lifestyle. They don’t think the juices will act in place of their perfectly good detoxing organs such as the liver and kidneys and nor do they think that is what the word means. And this is

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