Meyerowitz - Juice Fasting & Detoxification

Drink to your health!

Who Is This Sproutman?

Steve Meyerowitz began his journey to better health in 1975 to correct a lifelong chronic condition of severe allergies and asthma. After two months of eating a living foods, vegetarian diet, his symptoms disappeared. After almost 20 years of disappointment with conventional medicine, Steve restored his health through his own program of purification, lifestyle adjustment, exercise, fasting, juicing and living foods.

Over the years, he has lived on and experimented with many so called extreme diet/lifestyles including, raw foods, fruitarianism, sprouts, dairy and flourless vegetarianism and fasting. In 1977, he was pronounced Sproutman by Vegetarian Times Magazine in a feature article that explored his innovative sprouting ideas and recipes.

After 10 years as a music and comedy entertainer, he made a complete lifestyle change for his health. In 1980, he opened The Sprout House, a no-cooking school in New York City. There, he began a formal program of teaching kitchen gardening and the preparation of gourmet sprouted and vegetarian foods. Steve has invented two home sprouters, the Flax Sprout Bag and the Sprout House Tabletop Greenhouse and founded the Sprout House, a company supplying juicers, growing kits and a full line of organic sprouting seeds.

Steve has been featured on the Home Shopping Network, TV Food Network, in Prevention, Organic Gardening and Flower & Garden Magazines. In 3 minutes on QVC, 953 people ordered his Cookbook and Tabletop Greenhouse.

Steve and his family, including three little sprouts, now live and breathe the fresher air of the Berkshire mountains.

JUICE
FASTING

DETOXIFICATION

Steve Meyerowitz

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

The fastest way to restore your health

Illustrated by Michael Jon Parman

Copyright 2002
1984, 1987, 1990, 1992,1995, 1996, 1999
by Steve Meyerowitz
Illustrated by Michael Jon Parman,

SIXTH EDITION
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 1-878736-65-5 Paperback
All rights reserved. No part may be reproduced by electronic,
photocopy or other means without prior permission from the
publisher.

Publishers Cataloging-in-Publication
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Meyerowitz, Steve.

Juice fasting and detoxification: use the healing power of fresh juice to feel young and look great / by Steve Meyerowitz; illustrated by Michael Jon Parman. 6th ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-90265

ISBN: 1-878736-65-5

1. FastingHealth aspects. 2. Fruit juicesHealth aspects. 3. Vegetable juicesHealth aspects. I. Title.

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Cover art by Victor Zurbel, courtesy of
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Cover Design by Keith Bona

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I tell you truly... Satan enter[ed] your bodies which are the habitation of God. And he took in his power all that he wished to steal: your breath, your blood, your bones, your flesh, your bowels, your eyes, and your ears. But by your fasting and your prayer, you have called back the lord of your body and his angels.

-Jesus, Essene Gospel Of Peace

Our modern world is overflowing with food. Thanks to international commerce, food of every nationality, from every corner of the world can be found on our dinner plate. New inventions are coming out all the time with reconstituted gourmet meals in space age packaging, drinks contained in flexible tins bottles, gene-spliced cucumbers, and permanently preserved irradiated tomatoes, to mention a few. We are so involved with our food as a form of recreation, as a facilitator of our social life and as entertainment that we have forgotten the importance of not eating. Our fast-paced lifestyle along with modern commerce and advertising has blurred the relationship of food to our health. Yet, for all our technology and modern methods, we are plagued by a long list of contemporary diseases, many of them fatal, which modern medicine cannot cure. Lung cancer, colon cancer, heart disease, arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure and others were not prevalent 60 years ago and are directly linked to our diet and lifestyle.

Fasting is an age old cure that still works, even for modern ailments caused by our 20th century excesses. It is ironic that something so old works on problems so new and unfortunate that it is so ignored. But fasting is, in fact, our oldest health remedy. It is mentioned throughout the book of Exodus. Moses, Elijah and Jesus all fasted for up to 40 days. And Jesus speaks directly about fasting and diet in the Essene Gospel of Peace. (The latter differs from the New Testament in that it is a direct translation from the Aramaic text held in the library of the Vatican.) To this day Jews fast as a means of atonement. Christians fast during Lent. Moslems during Ramadan and Hindus fast routinely. Fasting was also advocated by Plato and Hippocrates and the Egyptians used it as a cure for syphilis. In modern times, the practice of therapeutic fasting was rekindled by a naturopathic physician, Dr. Isaac Jennings, in 1822.