The Juice Detox Diet 3-Book Collection. Jason Vale

are Big Business to the pharmaceutical industry, and it seems they will do anything to sell their wares to their customers. And their customers are not so much the obese patients themselves, but the thousands of doctors whom they have to persuade to prescribe their new wonder drug. Even if some dreadful side effect rears its ugly head during the development stages, it appears it is often explained away as “incidental to the greater good of the drug.” It is only when people start getting problems like anal leakage—as was the case with the antifat drug Xenical—that questions are asked. It appears that antifat drugs that have been known to have even worse side effects than Xenical are OK when it’s the greater good that’s in question, but a program such as the one in this book gets hammered by the medical industry. And this is a program that relies purely on nature’s healing principles; one that does nothing to tax the liver and one that has no adverse side effects.

      I’m certainly not saying that medical drug intervention isn’t absolutely necessary at times, or that it never does any good, as clearly it does and many lives are saved as a result. I know this firsthand as I was badly asthmatic and needed my asthma pump up to sixteen times a day—trust me, that little blue inhaler was my lifesaver. However, why do they appear never to suggest that we should, as Hippocrates famously said, “Let food be thy medicine and let thy medicine be food”? Why isn’t diet always the first thing to be suggested when it comes to any illness? When I changed my diet and started juicing, the first thing to change was my asthma. I went from being unable to survive without my Ventolin inhaler to not needing it at all. I haven’t had asthma since. Was this a coincidence? I don’t think so.

      I also lost weight, my energy levels increased, my nails got stronger, my eyes got brighter, and my severe psoriasis, which covered my body from head to foot, started to improve massively. These incredible health changes occurred with no pills, potions, drugs, or medical lotions. They occurred naturally, a concept, which is often lost on some parts of the medical and dietetic profession. Luckily, it is not lost on all in the medical profession and luckily things are changing. 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 that bombard them with the latest drug that can cure obesity along with 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. Here is an e-mail that has just come in from a GP (also known as a family doctor) in the UK:

       “Hi Jason, I just wanted to comment on the GP side of things. I’m a GP, for my sins, and have been following your programs 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 28 lbs (13 kg) 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 many fruits and vegetables in 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 G.P. among 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 rather than someone who doesn’t have “Dr.” in front of their name. You may feel that’s an intelligent thing to do, but it’s worth knowing that the average doctor in the US spends just 20 hours of their medical school training on 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 fifteen 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 that 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 scraped your knee? What was the advice? “Wash it and then it alone. 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. It’s not years and years of complicated books on anatomy, biology, and nutrition you need—it’s just a simple understanding of …

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       The Goldfish Bowl

       “The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.” Louis Pasteur

      Imagine a goldfish in a bowl of clean water. What would happen to the fish if the water was never cleaned? What would happen if the fish was left to live in a polluted environment day after day with the pollution getting slightly worse each day? I think you’d agree that it’s likely the fish would probably get an ailment or two.

      The question I have is a simple one: What would you do to help the fish? Would you treat the fish or clean the water? Would you give the fish a drug to help with its condition or would you clean the water? You really don’t need years of medical training to come up with the only logical answer:

       CLEAN THE FLIPPING WATER!

      I’m not saying you should never treat the fish as well; after all, the likelihood is that after years of swimming around in all that pollution it is bound to be unwell. So by all means help the fish by treating it with a pill or whatever—but only as long as you CLEAN THE WATER AT THE SAME TIME! I cannot say this enough; when it comes to health the answer cannot be put more simply:

       CLEAN THE WATER!

      It amazes me when a doctor sees someone who is obese and then does a load of tests to check on their health. Being overweight is now classified as a disease in its own right—it’s when the body is at dis-ease with itself. If you saw a group of squirrels and in among the group there was a really fat one, I don’t somehow think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that something was very wrong. You would also know the cause of the problem would have been too many nuts—not rocket science. Equally, when you see someone who is massively obese you don’t need to do a load of tests to see that they’re ill or what the probable cause is.

      There was a program in the UK a few years ago called “You Are What You Eat.” The show was extremely popular and was fronted by a well-known nutritionist in the UK, Gillian McKeith (she also presented a show in Canada called “Eat Yourself Sexy”). All of her TV clients at the time seemed to be men and women who ate nothing but junk food and who were as big as a house. She always asked them to provide her with a stool (poop) sample, which she then analyzed to see if they were unwell. I don’t mean to be funny but I really don’t think you need to look at and smell their crap in order to diagnose that they are facing an enormous number of health problems. You don’t need to take a bunch of medical tests or to look at their shit to see quite clearly that they are ill and exactly what the cause is. You also don’t need a PhD in medical science to figure out what to do in order to make them better: CLEAN THE WATER. In fact, if you think about it that’s all Gillian did. Her clients had polluted systems, so she advised them to cut out the pollution and eat high-water-content, nutrient-packed food. She even actively encouraged juicing, as she, like so many more these days, now realizes it is by far the quickest and most nutritious way to clean out the garbage.

      Medical versus Alternative?

      If you had a scale and at one end you had the medical profession and at the other end you had the “alternative therapies,” then I guess I’m positioned pretty much in the middle. This isn’t me sitting on the fence; it’s just I that I can see there are times when both are perfectly justifiable.

      Many people in the conventional medical profession instantly trash any “alternative” methods,