Cross - The reboot with joe juice diet: lose weight, get healthy, and feel amazing

This book is dedicated to everyone who has watched the movie, visited the RebootwithJoe.com website, sent me a tweet, posted a message on my wall, sent me an email, or come up to me on the street or at an airport and told me how many days you Rebooted for, or what your favorite juice recipe is, or showed me your before photo with that smile on your face due to how many pounds youve lost or medications youve said goodbye to, or just said thank youyou have no idea how each and every one of you inspires me. I am humbled and deeply grateful.

DISCLAIMER

The ideas and opinions expressed in this book are intended to be used for informational purposes only. The book is provided with the understanding that the author and publisher are not rendering medical advice of any kind and that the information is not intended to replace medical advice or to be used to diagnose, prescribe, or treat any disease, medical condition, illness, or injury.

The author and publisher of this book claim no responsibility to any person for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information within.

Before beginning any diet program, including the Reboot with Joe Diet, please consult your physician or health-care professional.

No individual results or health effects from the Reboot with Joe Diet can be guaranteed, predicted, or foreseen. The US Food and Drug Administration has not evaluated any of the statements contained in this book.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to:

The 10 million-plus viewers of Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead , whove seen the film and spread the word.

The 500,000-plus and counting members of the Reboot community, who have inspired and created a movement.

Kari Thorstensen, Susan Ainsworth, Amie Hannon, Shane Hodson, Brenna Ryan, Jamie Schneider, Sophie Carrel, Chris Zilo, Ameet Maturu, Jessica Paz, Erin Flowers, Sarah Mawson, Lisa Merkle, Hayley Schilling, Hana Choi, Sean Frechette, Natalie Steiner, Vernon Caldwell, and Allison Floamthe Reboot Teamwho put their hearts and souls into nurturing the Reboot community and supporting the mission of Reboot with Joe.

A particular shout-out to Jamin Mendelsohn and Kurt Engfehr, who have continued to work with me since the filming of Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead , and who provide excellent creative input to all the Reboot with Joe endeavors.

Stacy Kennedy, senior clinical nutritionist at Brigham and Womens Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She has provided nutritional guidance and support to me since the filming of Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead . Without her knowledge and work in developing the Reboot plans and program, and her contributions to RebootwithJoe.com, this book would not have been possible.

Our Reboot nutritionists Claire Georgiou, Isabelle Smith, Abigail Hueber, Rachel Gargano, and Emma Laskey, who have patiently coached Rebooters, answered questions, given advice on RebootwithJoe.com, and contributed significantly to the content of this book.

The Reboot with Joe Medical Advisory Board (in addition to Stacy Kennedy)Ronald Penny MD, DSc, Carrie Diulus MD, and Adrian J. Rawlinson MDfor keeping the facts straight and for advocating the benefits of Rebooting.

Suzanne Boothby for giving this book shape. And to Leigh Haber for helping to put my voice into written words.

Robert Mac for pushing me to make Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead in the first place.

Sarah Hammond and the team at Hodder & Stoughton and the team at Greenleaf Book Group for their guidance and enthusiasm in bringing this book to market. Juice on!

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

Joel Fuhrman MD

When I first met Joe Cross several years ago, he was on a mission to improve his healthto lose weight, get off his prescription drug medications, and learn how to integrate healthier foods into his regular diet in a way that would stick. For him the first order of business was to jump-start that process by embarking on what hed termed a Reboothe would consume only juiced plants for a finite period of time. Since I have long been a proponent of eating a more plant-based diet as a means of living a longer life and avoiding or reversing many of the diseases that are often direct results of our Western, junk foodfilled diets, I was very supportive of Joes plan. In the mid-1990s I wrote a book called Fasting and Eating for Health , and my subsequent booksfrom Eat to Live up to my most recent work, The End of Diabetes all focus on the connection between healthy eating and disease. Over the years, Ive seen a lot of patients who are desperate to find some way of easing their pain, of becoming more mobile, of extending their livesof getting healthierbut rarely have I met someone as determined as Joe Cross was, and I was very glad to partner with him in his quest by monitoring his Reboot and offering suggestions on how to begin thinking about making food changes, big and small. I shared with him what Ive learned about the intersection between disease and dietas I have with my other patients and with my readers over timeand I watched in admiration as Joe succeeded on his mission and began making his own impact with his first film and book.

Since 1935, the occurrence of cancers that can be unquestionably linked to obesityamong them colon, breast, and kidney cancers, as well as cancer of the endometrial lininghave increased year over year. When I wrote the foreword to Joes first book, I said that I believed this could be traced to junk, processed, and fast foods. But, in reality, there is no room for doubt on this anymore, if there ever was: The foods many Westerners are addicted to are the foods that are the worst for them, and they are linked to many diseases. For example, over the last five years, the connection between consumption of animal protein and an insulin-like growth factor that promotes various forms of cancer (IGF-1) has been confirmed in numerous studies. What does this mean? Its clear we need to reduce animal protein in our diets and eat much more plant-based food in order to reduce our risk of cancer.