NUTRITION
The retreats at Juicy Mountain offer around eight hours of activity every day She continues: “Juicing also retains a
much higher percentage of the nutrients in fruit and vegetables than if you just eat them. You can get everything your body needs from juicing. People often ask about protein and fi bre, but we use superfoods in our recipes – avocado in our smoothies, for example, and spirulina, which is a complete plant-
JUICE MASTER RETREATS
“We ran our first retreat in Turkey around 10 years ago – the 7lbs in 7 days book had done incredibly well, so we contacted our database to see if anyone would like to go away for a week to do the programme with us,” says Juice Master founder Jason Vale. “It was such a success that we found a location we could rent throughout the summer months.” Located in the
Meanwhile Juicy Oasis
launched in Portugal in June 2013. The new retreat – this time wholly owned by Vale – is bigger and more luxurious, but again offers ‘stylish camping’ options. As it’s open all year, it also includes a gym and spa – the Eden Spa – to ensure guests have fi tness and relaxation options whatever the weather.
Juicing is described as one solution for many different ailments
mountains outside the village of Gocek, the ‘rustic’ Juicy Mountain retreat offers 11 rooms and four luxury tents. There’s a pool fi lled with mountain water, a covered space for exercise classes in the heat of the day, a platform for morning and evening yoga and rebounding – high-energy classes using mini-trampolines – and of course the beautiful surroundings for the daily walks. Nothing is compulsory, and there are a few hours in the
middle of each day for relaxation, but guests are encouraged to participate in as much as they can, with around eight hours of activities scheduled every day. One-to-one yoga or fi tness training is also available (£40 for an hour), as well as massages (£50 for 50 minutes).
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“There’s a beautiful relaxation room with suspended cocoons, a
hot pool, fi ve treatment rooms and an outdoor loft sauna overlooking the lake,” says Vale. “There’s also a yoga dome, a huge exercise platform overlooking the lake, and a small gym with equipment from Life Fitness and TRX.” And Vale has plans for more Juicy Oases. “I’d like two in
the States, one in Australia and one in England, in Cornwall. But if, on my travels, I found a spot on the beach in Thailand that I could buy and make a rustic retreat with wooden tree huts, I’d consider that too!” Prices for the week, excluding fl ights and transfer, range from
£450–£1,150 for Turkey, or £645–£2,150 for Portugal. Eden Spa treatments cost €65–€140. Details:
www.juicemaster.com
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based protein with all the amino acids. And apples are in most of our juices – they include pectin, which is a fi bre.” “In any case, the body only uses the
juice that’s contained within the fi bres of the fruit and veg,” adds Vale. “Fibre itself can’t penetrate the intestinal wall; it just keeps things moving in the colon, and you can use psyllium husks for this.”
ONE DISEASE, ONE SOLUTION There will still be some who want to question the science, but the testimonials speak for themselves – including, on our retreat alone, a diabetes sufferer who almost halved his insulin dose just in the space of the week, and a regular juicer whose husband has seen his MS symptoms
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