I wish to make something clear at this point: I am all for medical intervention and drugs where necessary. I strongly believe I wouldn’t be alive today without the injection which saved my life when I had my very first asthma attack at the age of eight. However, I wish I had been told what was causing my condition instead of simply being given drugs for the next God knows how many years to sticky tape over the root cause of the problem. It would have been good if someone had at least suggested that diet and exercise just might play a part. At least then I could have tried to do something about it instead of just accepting my drug-filled days. However, as I will keep saying, there’s a lot of money in drugs – more than most of us can comprehend – so what interest has a drug company got in actually curing your condition? Just a thought.
Pure Common Sense Science
Science, as far as I am concerned, is ‘that which works’. For obesity and weight loss there is no question – juicing works! Exercise works! It not only works for some; it works for everyone – and I am willing to challenge anyone who believes anything to the contrary. This means that no matter what you have tried before, the physical weight-loss results are guaranteed on this programme.
However, this book isn’t simply about the physical. It’s also about igniting that inspirational mental fire within – that passion, which often sits dormant inside us all. When ignited, it makes us feel anything is possible. It makes us excited about life again, and makes us want to get up, exercise and get slim so we can get the most out of each and every day.
As mentioned in the Introduction, many people think that life has put out the fire. While we are breathing, however, it is a sure sign that the pilot light is very much on, and all that’s required is a bit of mental fuel to ignite the fire once again. What we don’t realize is that there are many aspects that dampen the fire. There are many ‘foods’, for example, that contain toxic chemicals which gradually wear us down without our knowledge. We often take over-the-counter drugs to deal with some of the nutritional deficiencies caused by these ‘foods’. These drugs ALL have negative side-effects, which once again contribute to the dampening of our inspirational fires.
There are many things that can ignite us once again. Sometimes it can be just a sentence. For others it’s hearing of other people’s successes. It can be seeing what you deem ‘real’ scientific studies on juicing. It can be seeing the truth behind the food companies and deciding you no longer want to help fund them by passing over your hard-earned money in exchange for substances which will simply make you fat, ill and unhappy. Whatever it is, this book has been carefully designed to ignite that fire within and give you a successful launch on your juicy journey to the lovely world of slimness and health.
Nothing, I feel, can trigger the pilot light to fire more so than people who have already experienced incredible success. When you see what can be achieved in a short space of time, it helps to start the firing process. I have chosen just a tiny selection from our juicy postbag to help light that juicy fire within. Make a point of reading every one, as some of the results will astound you. I also sincerely hope that those sceptics in the dietetic and medical worlds read the next chapter and take note. I hope it makes them sit up, pay attention and start to see the incredible value freshly extracted juice can have on every aspect of mental and physical health. I also hope they, and you for that matter, don’t dismiss these letters and emails as ‘isolated’ or ‘not real’. The following are all 100 per cent genuine, from ‘real’ people from every walk of life. All have different lifestyles, jobs, commitments, ages, and yet all managed to introduce juicing into their often hectic lives and reap the slimming and health rewards. Come forth and let me give you a glimpse of what can happen when you join in …
Juicing is no longer seen as something for mad people with long hair who spend much of their lives in trees protesting against a new bypass being built. Today, juicing and smoothie-making is viewed as a genuine and highly effective way to get better health and a super-slim body. A little over five years ago, less than 1 per cent of the UK population owned a juice extractor; that figure is now 6 per cent and is expected to reach 20 per cent by the year 2012. Not only are people buying them, but unlike gadgets like bread-makers, they are even starting to use them – what a concept!
Today, juicing and smoothie-making is viewed as a genuine and highly effective way to get better health and a super-slim body.
This chapter is dedicated to illustrating the truly amazing health and slimming results that can be achieved by incorporating freshly extracted fruit and vegetable juices into your life. You can have all the scientific studies in the world, but none will get your juices flowing more than the remarkable results of others.
I have heard some amazing stories over the years and have seen at first hand some truly wonderful and almost miraculous changes. I have seen people come off antidepressants after years of taking them. I have seen people with arthritis who could barely move climb a steep hill and walk miles after incorporating juicing into their lives. I have seen skin disorders virtually disappear as well, of course, as excess fat seemingly melt away.
In a recent seminar I conducted, an 80-year-old man asked a question: ‘What are you supposed to do if your partner thinks you’re insane for juicing?’ I suggested that if he were told by a doctor that he should be taking something like a statin drug for high cholesterol she would insist he took them, so she should be as understanding when he is trying to treat his health with something natural. His reply was perhaps one of the most priceless I have ever heard: ‘Oh that’s the other thing. I am meant to be on a statin for high cholesterol, but since I have been juicing I have no need … but we’re having to keep that one a secret – don’t tell the wife!’
It would be almost impossible to read this chapter without it adding at least a few flames to your fire. Inspiration is such a vital catalyst to any kind of change, especially when you are trying to kick-start a healthy eating and slimming plan. And there is nothing more inspirational or motivating than seeing real results.
Here are just a few of the hundreds of thousands of genuine emails I have received over the years. I have made comments after some of them to fully illustrate some of the points. I would like to thank the thousands of people who have taken the time to write to me. Even if it takes a few months I always make a point of reading and replying to as many as possible. It was hard to pick out just a few. However, I hope this small selection enables you to see the sort of health and slimming magic that can occur with the help of the right frame of mind, a few fruits and vegetables, a juicer and a blender.
Please do not make the mistake of skipping the letters. They all have a message and they all help to lay the foundations. Remember, everything I have written is for a reason; every word has a point to it; and every one of the letters you read here is 100 per cent genuine and unsolicited. The magic is in their words – don’t miss them.
‘Subject: Yippee! I never have to go on another diet!!! WOW! Where do I start? Since having two kids 13 and 10 years ago my weight has gone up and down like you wouldn’t believe. Like many people I’ve done The Cabbage Soup Diet and Weight Watchers (brill, no more counting those bloody points!) to name but a few, but it wasn’t until September of last year that I found that juicing