Cleansing – The First Step in Making A Change!

Your body receives the nourishment your food contains through the absorption of the nutrients as the food travels through the intestines. To properly assimilate these nutrients, the intestinal pathway must be clear. Water cannot flow freely through clogged pipes! When the lining of the intestine is blocked by improperly digested food, we receive only minimal benefit.

The fasting process is best used and thought of as a vital tool, giving the body the opportunity to transform itself physically. Fasting aides your ability to change your habits and lifestyle during the detoxification process. Resting from foods and allowing the body to process what it has already stored, is the ideal sequence to correct the imbalance caused by our congestive and excessive eating behaviors. Congestion within the body is a result of eating excessive “bad” fats, animal and processed foods. Refined, processed or chemically treated food cannot be properly digested. This “so-called” food will stagnate in the intestine, causing a release of toxins that lingers in the digestive system and enters the bloodstream. Any foreign substance that your body does not recognize as a nutrient is classified as a toxin. Therefore, pasteurized foods or those processed by adding chemical preservatives, nitrates or hormones cause a multitude of problems that would take another detailed article to list in full.

Any food, except raw food (like Green Super Foods), will wait in the upper stomach for a half-hour to an hour while the pancreas sends digestive enzymes to break it down. This waiting period is a prime time for the toxins in the food to begin infecting the body’s vital systems and bloodstream. Over time, our bodies suffer a toxic buildup and are in great need of a thorough cleansing.

As surprising as it may seem, overweight people suffer from malnutrition because their intestinal tract is clogged. When our diet includes a variety of raw foods, especially green grasses and sea vegetables, then we are receiving the proper amount of roughage to help keep us clean out and at the same time supply our body with the enzymes to help fight toxic buildup and disease.

The Three-Day Cleanse

I recommend you cleanse your body two to three times per year. This doesn’t have to be a long cleanse–a three-day juice fast is sufficient. These fasts will help keep you clean, are beneficial for illnesses and help rid you of unwanted fats or toxins.

1. First thing in the morning on each of the three consecutive days, drink 8-16 ounces of prune juice or lemon juice and water.

2. About a half-hour after taking the prune juice, drink about 8-12 ounces of the juice you have chosen for the fast–juices such as apple, carrot, citrus, tomato, a combination of vegetable juices (vegetable juice is truly the best for cleansing), or a combination of Green Super Foods and juice/water. If you are drinking fruit juice you may want to dilute it with part water to avoid too much sweetness and sugar. Select one juice and use it exclusively for the three-day period (or at least stick to one type of juice daily). Make sure the juice you drink is organic. Fresh juice is best.

3. You will definitely want to have 2-3 “green drinks” daily during the cleanse, such as Amazing Grass’s Superfood and/or Wheat Grass. You can mix the greens with the desired juice and drink throughout the day. The Super Food can also be mixed with simply water for fewer sugars. Also, drinking Kombucha Tea is a wonderful cleansing and alkalizing aid that suppresses the appetite. These drinks will help your energy, nutrition levels, cleansing process and help alkalize your body.

4. Approximately 30 minutes after your juice, drink 8 ounces of filtered or distilled water. You should be drinking 12 or more ounces of your selected juice every 2-3 hours. You can alternate juice one time and then Super Foods the next time, or add some greens to every juice session. It’s up to you, however, the green Super Foods will create more satisfaction and satiation, delay hunger, provide energy, increase the rate of cleansing, and create more alkalinity in the blood (which is key to cleansing).

5. Continue alternating juice and water every half-hour to an hour until you have consumed two quarts of juice. You can have more juice if you need it.

6. Optional: take 1 tablespoon of fresh-pressed flaxseed oil two to three times a day to aid in lubricating the bile and liver duct.

7. On the fourth day, begin taking solids again. For the first couple of days try to eat only raw foods, then slowly add unprocessed cooked foods.

By Rebekah Winquest
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