Are smoothie/juice cleanses good?

If you have working organs you don't need a cleanse. If your organs don't work its probably best to see your doctor than try a cleanse.

If you just want to drink some smoothies or juice because they are yummy then go for it.

I think they are a good way to get a lot of nutrients/vegetables in your body quickly.

I'm a vegetarian, so I mostly make green smoothies and use spirulina and lots of vitamin C fruits, so that I absorb iron.

It makes me feel good drinking smoothies because I know what's in them, they taste good and I feel like I'm eating something healthy and fresh.

"Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" is not a documentary, It's an infomercial. You have presumably functional liver, kidneys, and bowels by virtue of the fact that you are living enough to type this post, so you're already being cleansed. Even if that were not the case, drinking your meals would do nothing to aid the process, save for making you $#!*. Cleanses and juice detoxes are for suckers and Hollywood types who have long ago lost any semblance of a former ability to think for them selves.

Rigger

Ignore the haters!!!






Oh, wait...this thread is about cleanses...






Well consider me a hater and don't ignore me!

I am not a fan. They are really hard on your digestive system and I think eating the whole food is always perferable to just the juice.

I used juices initially to cleanse, but different than what you think. I used them to cleanse myself of habits. Don't eat sugar for a few weeks and everything tastes insanly sweet, same with salt. I did 5 juices during the day and then ate a lean meat and something green for dinner. It made the initally hard part easier, because there was no question about what I was eating at work...Juice. I didn't buy anything packaged, I bought a juicer (used CC points) and went to town. Also very obvious you are eating what you are, so co-workers don't try to give you donuts and things. Atleast in my office.

My husband is down 40 and he is still doing the juices during the day. He finds fruit juice to give him more energy before working out than any of the pre-workout drinks did. Also easier for him with all the meetings and stuff he has to go to. We have found a noticable difference in recovery time. Muscles are less sore, I think because we aren't under nurished. We have all the nutrients and they are in their original form vs pharmacutical manufactured vitamins. I am not anti-vitamin, I take a prenatal everyday. I just think an apple is better than a pill if you can get what you need that way.

I don't know if it makes a difference or not, but sometimes I'm a vegetarian. I'll go a while without eating meat, because I read that too much protein could be bad for you.

Wow you are all over the place.

Sometimes you are a vegetarian, you want to do a cleanse, and you skip meals because you hear too much protein is bad for you.

Let me guess, you also do the fasting program as well while you are sleeping of course.


You are just too all over the place to fix.

Oh I started with the recipes at the following link. Then I just modified them as needed (less apples vs more to adjust sweetness). Green apples are good as pre-worout.

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/joe-cross-juice-cleanse-recipes


You can use the link below to calculate the calories in the actual juice. It is less than the whole fruit. Note: it doesn't work on my work computer, but it does on my laptop at home. When you start typing in the box it should make a drop down, if not then try another computer.

http://juicerecipes.com/build/

Oh I started with the recipes at the following link. Then I just modified them as needed (less apples vs more to adjust sweetness). Green apples are good as pre-worout.

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/joe-cross-juice-cleanse-recipes


You can use the link below to calculate the calories in the actual juice. It is less than the whole fruit. Note: it doesn't work on my work computer, but it does on my laptop at home. When you start typing in the box it should make a drop down, if not then try another computer.

http://juicerecipes.com/build/

Dr. Oz is a quack, and no thinking person should ever take anything associated with him seriously.

Rigger

Dr. Oz is a quack, and no thinking person should ever take anything associated with him seriously.

Rigger

^^ This