question to the people on the juice fast

Chewing is the devil now?

ROFL! Classic!

I recomend ready a few pages of the critine carr book "crazy, sexy. diet" in order to understand juicing.

I could never do it ( because I too love to chew). But there are a significant amount of benefits

Try watching the movie, "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead". It will answer all your questions and inspire you as well.

For the quick answer from someone who has watched it: The point of drinking juiced fruits and veggies rather than just eating the fruits and veggies is because if you just ate fruits/veggies you'd have to eat all day long basically to get enough. Juicing is a much faster and more convenient way of getting tons of micronutrients into your body and filling you up quick.

It isn't the fact that its in juice form that reboots your system. Its the foods you're putting into the juice form that reboot your system. Getting away from unhealthy foods and processed and/or refined foods.

Like I said, you would have to read about it or watch the documentaries yourself to understand what you are talking about.

Juice fasting isn't a way of life. Its a temporary cleansing/jumpstart to weight loss and healthy eating.

Its basically a raw vegan diet in a more convenient juice and go fashion. High in micronutrients, void of macronutrients.

You don't need to tell me you can just eat whole foods instead. I don't care what you do. You're the one who asked about it.

You don't throw any of it away...it all gets processed and liquified.

There's actually research to suggest that food in liquid form makes you feel more full, and therefore less likely to snack or overeat. Take it with a pinch of salt but there's some truth in it. It's something to do with the mass of it spreading out and filling your stomach more, so it tells your brain it is satisfied.

You're referring to volumetrics and it has nothing to do with liquid vs solid. It has to do with literal volume of the stomach and filling the space up. This is why a lot of people who have weight issues are told to drink a large glass of water before eating. It's why a lot of people are told to eat cruciferous vegetables like celery before big meals. Anything that fills the volume in your stomach can accomplish this. On top of that, eating fiber helps maintain fullness. Juicing gets rid of that part at the very least.

And finally, there is a lot more to your brain feeling satisfied than volume. Hormones control that part of it and this all comes back the hypothalmus (part of the brain that regulates hunger and thirst) which will release the necessary hormones so you know when to eat/drink.

This "liquid makes you eat less during the day" thing sounds like a bit of pseudo-science.

Well I use a blender right now when I do liquids because I haven't gotten a juicer yet.
The only things that should have any leftover in a juicer would be tough vegetables like celery. The bulk of it should be leafy green vegetables which break down very easily.
Granted, if you use a juicer some of the insoluable fiber if you use certain things in it will be left over.
The juice still has tons of fiber in it though, much more than the recommended fiber intake.
In fact, most of the time I'm on a somewhat junkyfoody vegan diet and even without trying and with eating processed foods I still get pretty high over the recommended daily amount of fiber--thats just what typically happens when you cut out certain things.
So when you're juicing, whether you use a juicer, a Vitamix, or whatever else, there's no question; you're getting tons of fiber which expands in the stomach and makes you feel full.

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