1) I read this post from my phone on a small screen and I thought the thread title was "juicy farts".
2) As much as I think juice fasting is unnecessary, I really don't think you will change their minds.


I watched the documentary and the emotional hook was strong. There was some information I didn't agree with, and I think for the most part, people view juicing as a quick fix. It doesn't teach anyone how to eat, unfortunately.

I do wish you luck. I don't think I have a helpful answer though.

There's no harm in drinking juice like that, especially if it's mostly veggies like in the video.

As for switching to an all juice diet.... I'd recommend some more in-depth research other than the video. I've seen it twice myself and did find I felt better ADDING juice (yay nutrients) but I decided to do an all-juice diet with a friend of mine for a week because she wanted to try it... I went through a lot of toilet paper and was hungry constantly. No fun.

I suggested she just eat the fruits and vegetables in their normal form (or sauteed, steamed, what-have-you) and she responded saying she'd get a better 'cleanse' without the 'bits and chunks' needed to be digested.

I actually considered the juice fast myself at one point and joined the group for 'Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead' here on MFP, but it's mainly positive posts, so I'm going to assume positive experiences with the fasting.

If you want too, go for it. IMO it is not healthy as an entire diet, but can be beneficial as an addition to a diet (ie, I personally am not a fan of veggie, but do like veggie juice) to add nutrients.

If you went to the group you will most likely only hear positives because those who didn't like it didn't join the group. To each their own, though. Good Luck! :flowerforyou:

Chiming in here.

Juicing itself is fine if you want to get a way to get more veggies in - but why juice? Just make a smoothie - you get the fiber from the fruit.

While juicing for a day may not be a big deal, you are lacking in macro and many micronutrients when you do it which becomes an issue if you do it for any length of time. As this is the case - why do it at all?. There is also the psychological/behavioral issues in that it is not creating a healthy relationship with food, plus, there is the real risk of the someone thinking they are seeing results and continuing for a time where it will become unhealthy and start to impact body composition. When someone juices, they have no food in them, plus it is very low calories so there is likely a lot of water weight. So they get on the scale and think they are getting good results - they are not. All they are seeing is less food weight and water weight on the scale. The issue is, this may lead them to continue on for longer and suffer less immediately visual or tangible negative effects.

In short, there are no pros, and only cons, so I would never suggest or agree that someone does it even for a day. There is just no point.

I would also point out to your friend that there is nothing to 'cleanse'. Taking food in the form of juice does nothing with that regard - http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/821828-detoxes-and-cleanses

I have a friend who does green juicing as a supplement to her diet. She really likes it. We both tried the fast itself and thought we were going to die 3 days in. It just gets nauseating and is unnecessary. But having a juice with your breakfast or whatever is nice. And you do get a good lot of the water soluble minerals and vitamins.

2) As much as I think juice fasting is unnecessary, I really don't think you will change their minds.

Agree with this. I have several friends who are into cleanses/detoxes/etc and no amount of science or experience will convince them it's not a good idea and not cleansing anything.