Farley Lori Kenyon - The juice cleanse reset diet : 7 days to transform your body for increased energy, glowing skin, and a slimmer waistline

The information contained in this book is based on the experience and research of the authors. It is not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician or other health care provider. Any attempt to diagnose and treat an illness should be done under the direction of a health care professional. The publisher and authors are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of any of the suggestions, preparations, or procedures discussed in this book.

Copyright 2013 by Lori Kenyon Farley and Marra St. Clair

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kenyon Farley, Lori, author.
The juice cleanse reset diet : 7 days to transform your body for increased energy, glowing skin, and a slimmer waistline / Lori Kenyon Farley and Marra St. Clair.
pages cm
1. Fruit juicesTherapeutic use. 2. Vegetable juicesTherapeutic use. 3. Detoxification (Health) 4. Reducing diets. 5. Reducing exercises. I. St. Clair, Marra, author. II. Title.
RM237.K46 2014
613.2dc23

2013035508

Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60774-583-9
eBook ISBN: 978-1-60774-584-6

Design by Sarah Adelman
Cover photograph by Katie Newburn

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Our heartfelt gratitude to our dedicated team of wellness warriors at Ritual Wellness: Debbie, Donald, Emil, Jeff, Kaela, Lou, Luis, Markie, Sal, Tyler, and countless others. Without you all, we would not be able to deliver bottles of nutritious freshly pressed organic juice to our clients every day.

To our loyal customers and friends who believed in and supported our vision from the very first day.

To our husbands, Richard Farley and Tom St. Clair, for their patience while we created this book, for allowing themselves to be test cases for new recipes, and for their unyielding faith in our abilities.

To our parents and siblings for always encouraging us to follow our passion for wellness and teaching us that you can accomplish your biggest dreams if you are willing to work hard and you believe you will succeed.

To our agent, Steve Troha, for holding our hands and guiding us skillfully and enjoyably through the process, and to Lindi Stoler for having the vision to see this book even while it was only a tiny seed germinating in our imaginations.

To our brilliant and insightful editor, Julie Bennett, for believing in our project and, more importantly, for helping us organize our thoughts into something you would want to read and be inspired to follow.

To each person reading this book, for taking the first step toward prioritizing your health.

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto

Who isnt looking for quick and easy ways to lose weight, look younger, have more energy, and get healthy? In our constant quest for improvement, we eat premade processed food, count points, and drink powdered shakes; we pay for facials, peels, laser treatments, and fillers; we shoot caffeinated energy drinks; and we get our fat sucked out, melted down, and sweated away. These quick-fix methods rarely have lasting results, but we try the latest fads again and again only to end up disappointed when the programs, products, diets, and treatments fail to deliver on their promises.

To see results on the outside, you have to focus on improving the inside. If youre struggling to lose those last five pounds, cant seem to shake that midafternoon slump, and have started noticing bags under your eyes, its time for a reset. By resetting your system, you create the right internal environment for what you want to accomplish, whether thats increasing your energy level, dropping a few pounds, reducing your cravings for sugary food, creating glowing skin, or just plain getting healthy. To get the results you want, you must first clear your body of the toxins and acidity that prevent it from absorbing nutrients.

People ask us all the time, is cleansing really necessary? Arent our bodies designed to clean themselves through the function of the liver, kidneys, and miles of digestive tract? The short answer is yes. And while its true that our bodies are able to fight off infections, remove waste from the digestive system, combat diseases, and clean out the toxins we ingest, these days we subject our bodies to a lot of unnatural ingredients, whether by choice or inadvertently, which makes it harder than ever for our bodies to keep up.

Thanks to science and advances in the food industry, there are now pesticides that can keep wildlife from eating our produce before we can pick it. Seeds are genetically engineered to produce fruit that is perfectly shaped, is resistant to diseases, and ripens just when the growers want it to ripen. Inventions like argon gas allow farmers to pick produce before it has ripened, ship it across the country, and spray it so that it reaches the perfect color to appear ripe once it hits the supermarket shelves. Thanks to these shipping practices, youre not limited to the type of fruit grown in your part of the country or the world, but have access to nearly every variety all year long.

Similarly, cows, chickens, and pigs are raised from birth to slaughter in a much shorter time frame than they were fifty years ago. Livestock are fed engineered grain to mature them more quickly, and treated with antibiotics to protect against diseases prevalent in their poor living conditions and caused by the hormones they are injected with. Chickens and pigs are fed fatty diets and their movement is restricted to help them plump faster. Fish are farmed to increase the population of certain breeds, while exposing them to more antibiotics and pesticides than their wild kin.

In an effort to accommodate our quickening lifestyle, grains are processed to speed up preparation time. Rather than cooking steel-cut oatmeal for breakfast, we buy breakfast cereal made from refined white flour. These flours are generally derived from a whole grain. During the milling process, the kernel is put through a high-heat process that removes the germ and bran (which contain 90 percent of the nutritional content of the kernel), leaving only the endosperm (starch). To replace those nutrients lost in processing, artificial vitamins and minerals are sprayed onto the finished cereals or baked goods.

Heres the issue. Real food and manufactured food are not the same things to your body, even if they look the same to a scientist. Nutrients and vitamins and minerals can be created in the lab and glued onto processed food, but our bodies can tell the difference. Even if you start with a nice ripe orange, full of antioxidants and vitamin C, once you juice, heat, and pasteurize it, the nutrients are dead, and the enzymes necessary to help your body absorb the vitamins have been killed off, too. But itll stay fresh on the grocery store shelves for months on end.