Ladies Magazine Design March-April 2014 | Page 28

eliminating pills for high blood pressure and diabetes as well as lowering the rate of cancer and risk of developing other serious diseases. Fasting can also be used as a tool to uncover the source of food allergies. Fasting can retrain your taste buds, reboot your system, and cause your body to look forward to healthy foods. Metabolism is the sum total of all the chemical reactions in the body, soul, and spirit. I chalAlthough a lenge you to pure water find a better fast is best, way to bring about extreme drink pure, metabolic homemade changes in the juices (diluted body in just three to four with one-third days! To maindistilled water) tain positive, along with wadramatic metabolic changes ter to provide gained from your body with fasting, we the vitamins, must consider them minerals, as “routine.” and enFasting three zymes it days four times per year needs to (when seaheal. sons change, for example) as well as one to two days per week is good! As caretaker you must make a decision; what will you do? There are a lot of pills you can take if that’s the 28 Reflections • Mar/Apr 2014 route you want to go. In just a few short years you will be the typical sixty-five year old taking eight drugs a day—that is the option and it’s your call. It is not a good idea to “jump into” a fast because it shocks the body. Instead, try to wean your body from heavy foods by eating raw fruits and vegetables two days prior. Follow this same pattern for a few days afterward, as well, rather than inundating your body suddenly with harsh, heavy foods. Although a pure water fast is best, drink pure, homemade juices (diluted with one-third distilled water) along with water to provide your body with the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes it needs to heal. Fresh juice made from green leafy vegetables, apples, beets, cabbage, carrots, celery, and grapes are also great to drink. A “watermelon only” fast in the summer is great! Chew and eat the