Of course, while medical intervention is necessary at times, common sense should tell everyone that for the most part it is very short-term medical intervention that is necessary. What is nonsensical is only feeding the fish and never cleaning the water, which is what happens 99% of the time with conventional medicine and its approach to disease.
Half Ton Man
The heaviest recorded man on the planet weighed the same as seven baby elephants! There was even a TV show made about him entitled Half Ton Man. He had been in bed for seven years. He eventually had medical intervention and lost half his body weight by the time the show had been broadcast. On the surface it appears that medical intervention was the only way forward, but was it? Firstly, who the hell was bringing him the food? I mean, it wasn’t as if he could go out to a fast-food joint. Rather than the medical profession taking down half of his house and using a whale hoist to remove him from his bed and take him to the hospital, it would have been better to make an order that no junk food whatsoever be brought to him and make it a criminal offense if anyone did. OK, this may seem over the top, but it could be argued that by bringing this man whatever he wanted on the food front, the doctors were assisting a suicide. Why didn’t they just feed him freshly extracted juices and smoothies? Why was the “clean the water” type of approach never forcefully prescribed?
Being overweight is often simply a symptom of pollution and toxins within the body. When we cut out the garbage and feed our cells nature’s finest in an extremely easy-to-digest form, what we are effectively doing is cleaning the environment in which our cells bathe. As the “live” nutrients are in a liquid form they are delivered to exactly where they are needed, in super-fast time. This highly charged liquid not only channels the super-rich nutrients to the cells, but it also helps flush the system of excess pollution, toxins, and FAT! As digestion requires more nerve energy than almost anything else (which is why you fall asleep after a big meal), the juice extractor and blender effectively do the hard work so your system doesn’t have to. This energy is saved for the task of removing fat and generally cleaning up and repairing the entire system, making juicing the most effective and healthy way of “cleaning the water,” while at the same time giving life to the system.
“The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it.” Maimonides
This is also why the results from the 7-day plan go way beyond simply losing 7 lbs. One of the main reasons people are reporting improvements with ailments from IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) to CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) is because we’re not talking about some powdered drink you add milk to that is full of artificial sweeteners and other chemicals. What we have is nature’s finest ingredients all blended together in their natural “live” state. No added sugar, salt, fat, chemicals, colorings, stabilizers, or anything artificial, just pure natural liquid fuel injecting life into every one of your cells—liquid fuel that is loaded with amino acids, natural carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, minerals, water, and enzymes.
The simple truth is that once you stop the pollution, put life back into the system and “clean the water,” all of a sudden weight loss and health miracles start to happen effortlessly. I know it sounds too simple, but then why need it be complicated?
Intuitive Doctoring
Nature already provides us with the most effective self-doctoring mechanism known to humankind—instinct. Instinctively, everyone who reads this book knows that it makes perfect sense. Instinctively, it is impossible to argue against nature and her incredible ability to heal with foods specifically designed for us. The problem is that we have been brought up in such a “you must treat the fish” fear-based society that we are now scared to listen intuitively to what the body needs. After all, we have been so indoctrinated to believe that we must take medical drugs for whatever illness that we are now fearful of what may happen if we don’t. There are few better motivators than fear, and large sections of the medical drug profession use it well. Remember, antiobesity drugs are now a multibillion-dollar industry and one of the most lucrative in the “medical” field.
This is why it comes as no surprise when some people in the medical profession try to call a program like this dangerous. Most simply read the front cover and make an instant judgement; others simply aren’t willing to accept that the liquid fuel contained within the fibers of nature’s purest fruits and vegetables can possibly do so much when it comes to all illnesses, not just excess weight. They seem to think that almost any period without “solid food” is harmful for the human body.
In fact, when we are ill the first thing that we don’t want anymore is our food. This is nature’s way of healing; nature’s way of saying you cannot deal with the energy-zapping process of trying to digest hard-to-break down food, extract the nutrients, and dispose of the wastes. This is why we instinctively crave fruit and water when we are sick and why the first thing we tend to bring people when they’re in the hospital is fruit and water.
I hate to see parents who almost force-feed their children when they are sick. Small children will often get a slight temperature and stop eating entirely, sometimes for a few days at a time. This again is nature’s way of saying, “Stop the hard-to-digest food and let me heal.” However, we have been so conditioned that we need food at least three to five times a day that parents often override what nature wants and literally push food into their children, even when the child is turning his or her face away from the food or spitting it out. The parents are clearly doing this out of concern, but sometimes we just need to trust in nature and believe in the power of fruits and vegetables and the body’s ability to heal itself naturally.
“The work of the doctor will, in the future, be ever more that of an educator, and ever less that of a man who treats ailments.” Lord Horder of Ashcroft, UK
Luckily, we have a new, more enlightened breed of doctor that is much more willing to look at a more natural approach where possible. I am even recommended by a few doctors, although a depressing majority don’t seem to understand how food, or too much of the wrong kind, is responsible for more illness and deaths than all the drugs on the planet combined. Many doctors are so blinded by their years of training with a background of a drug-based therapy that they are unable to see how a person can possibly have all their nutritional needs met through this program. Indeed, this is yet another thing I get hammered at me, time after time, by some doctors and dieticians: “I can see how a vegetable-based freshly extracted juice could be of some benefit but …”
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Where Will They Get Their Nutrients?
It’s funny how doctors, dieticians and, to be fair, many of the people who go on this program, all of a sudden become anxious about where they are going to get their RDA (recommended daily allowance) of protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and fiber. When they were eating and drinking junk they weren’t overly worried, yet put them on a program that consists of nothing but fruits, vegetables, and super food supplements, plenty of water, and some exercise and suddenly they are worried about whether their body is getting what it requires to function properly!
Why on earth do people worry about stuff like protein and calcium when they start to consume only fruits and vegetables? It’s simple. Ever since we were born we have been bombarded with the “must have meat and milk for good health” propaganda. We have been so brainwashed on this front that we now believe that it would be dangerous if we didn’t—even for a week. We believe we would