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Juice Fasting or Water Fasting?

According to the purists, ours is not a real fast, as we drink fruit & vegetable juices as well as vegetable broth along with herbs, vitamins, minerals. To the purists, fasting  means only water. However the Swedish Dr. Ragnar Berg, long our world's foremost authority on nutrition and biochemistry, stated:

During fasting, the body burns up and excretes huge amounts of accumulated wastes. We can help this process by drinking alkaline juices instead of water. Juice fasting is therefore the very best form of fasting.


Furthermore, with the herbs we cleanse the entire gastro-intestinal tract, assure the elimination of toxins and the balancing of the entire system. The sauna cleanses through the skin, and the Yoga and Meditation facilitates the purification of the mind and the spirit. All of this in a most serene and pure setting
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Juice or water? - Our experience

We have had several clients here with extensive water fasting experience. They have always been amazed at the amount of stool that they have eliminated during the two week juice fasting program. They have never experienced anything similar doing a water fast. During our juice fasting program, with all the juices, broth, powders and herbs as well as the detoxification treatments, yoga and meditation the energy levels for the majority of people remain high during the program. People have treatments, go for long walks, take a sauna and go swimming. During a water fast, however, it is recommended that you rest and do as little as possible.


I did my last water fast three years ago. An inflammation of my left knee had not responded to any of our regular treatments nor to a juice fasting session. Even Mike, our highly skilled and effective acupuncturist, who had cleared up a knee problem for me some years earlier, was unable to eliminate the problem. As I had to be completely inactive anyhow, I did a ten day water fast. At the end of ten days the knee was more or less back to normal. Maybe this also had something to do with the fact that because of the swollen knee we had to cancel a planned trip to India. The day after canceling the trip, the knee was almost OK.   Maybe this was not the time for us to go to India?
- Frank
 

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WATER FAST OR JUICE FAST?

So what is the best way to achieve the ultimate cleansing?
Water or juice fast?

Juice Fasting


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Juice fasting is the oldest, safest (biochemical) method of removing unwanted toxins and weight. Skilled juice fasting helps you to stay healthy and vital, as well as helping in the breaking of addictions. Furthermore, it increases mental clarity.

Here, at Moinhos Velhos, we have experienced and witnessed, through juice fasting, the complete reversal of so-called  incurable diseases (like Psoriasis), the cessation of chronic migraines, the elimination of allergies and back problems, and dramatic relief from the discomforts and pains of rheumatic and arthritic sufferers etc.

Even if you feel you are relatively healthy, a juice fast is a wonderful preventative measure against aging and possible future ill-health.

Juice fasting can help to lose surplus weight

The benefits of juice fasting are on so many levels, and different people choose to do our program for various reasons. A number of people enquire as to whether they will lose weight. If you have weight to lose, you will certainly lose some of it - depending on how long you fast for. It is also an excellent first step to losing weight and changing bad eating habits.

Low calorie and other fad diets usually fail because they literally starve the body of much-needed nutrients, causing even greater biochemical imbalance. Thus, when one can no longer stand to continue with the diet because of how heavily the body is craving what is denied, one is usually forced to binge to the point of gaining more weight than was lost, further lowering self-esteem.

During scientific juice-fasting however, the body autolyzes - self-digests its own stored substances, re synthesizing nutrients and eliminating toxins. Additionally, fruit and vegetable juices, alkalinizing vegetable broth, and herbal teas all add vitamins, minerals and trace elements to the body, in addition to aiding detoxification.

After the fast, the body is better able to digest food and is better at utilizing nutrients in the food. The organs have a new vitality - any sluggishness will have disappeared. If the body was prone to water-retention, this also disappears.  
 

So which is better, water or juice fasting?  For the most effective detoxification and overall purification juice fasting with powders and herbs (we stopped using the salt water process several years ago) is without doubt the best. Many scientists support juice fasting as the most effective method of detoxification. As Dr. Ragnar Berg, the Swedish Nobelist who was long considered to be the leading biochemist and the foremost authority  on nutrition in the world stated:


During fasting the body burns up and excretes huge amounts of accumulated wastes.  We can help this process by drinking alkaline juice instead of water. Juice fasting is therefore the best form of fasting. Many other scientists are in total agreement with this.
  

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A few years ago we had the pleasure of having Dr Keki Sidhwa as our guest during one of our regular juice fasting programs.  Dr Sidhwa has fasted more than 25,000 people in his center, and recently sent a couple of his long time clients to us to participate in our program. They had done several fasts with Dr. Sidhwa but never before had they experienced such elimination of toxic deposits as they did with our juice fasting programs here at Moinhos Velhos.

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Cotifo, Box 951F
Lagos, Portugal

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