SPA RETREAT
“Juicing can help all illnesses. Never underestimate the power of the body to heal itself when given the right nutrients and opportunity to do so”
into one glass of juice, would you really sit and eat your way through all that?” She continues: “Juicing also retains a much higher percentage of the nutrients in fruit and vegetables than if you just eat them. And you can get everything your body needs. People often ask about protein or fi bre, but we use superfoods in our juices – avocado and spirulina, which is a very com- plete plant-based protein including all the amino acids. Apples are in most of our juices too and they include pectin, which is a fi bre.”
ONE DISEASE, ONE SOLUTION There will still be some who question the science, but the testimonials speak for them- selves – 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 improve dramati- cally since she got him onto juicing every day. Meanwhile a number of studies link juic- ing to a range of health benefi ts, from apple juice to alleviate asthma in kids (National Heart and Lung Institute, UK) through to three-times weekly juicing leading to a 76 per cent lower chance of developing Alzhei- mer’s (Vanderbilt School of Medicine, US). The Juice Master team is also a living, breathing case study. Lennox uses juicing as a way to manage her arthritic condition, while Vale originally came to juicing in his late 20s in a bid to cure his head-to-toe pso- riasis. “At the time I smoked 50 cigarettes a day, I was overweight, unfi t, drank too much, had asthma and eczema and various other allergies – and then there was the psoriasis.” Discovering a book by Norman Walker, considered a pioneer of juicing, Vale read that psoriasis could be treated with a juice of celery, cucumber and spinach. “But I hated vegetables and I just couldn’t drink that combination, so I tried carrot juice instead – I’d read that a man used it to cure himself of
bladder cancer. I spent months just drinking carrot juice. It didn’t work for my psoriasis though – I just turned orange! “So I went back to the original recipe but added other ingredients to make it more pal- atable, including fruit. It cured my psoriasis – and all my other conditions too.” This holistic approach is echoed by a num- ber of experts. Charlotte Gerson – daughter of Max Gerson, who devised Gerson Ther- apy, the controversial nutritional regime that’s said to cure cancer (see SB08/2 p62) –famously said: “You can’t heal selectively... When the body heals itself, it heals everything.” This is what Vale calls ‘one disease, one solution’. He explains: “Juicing can help all illnesses. Never underestimate the power of the body to heal itself when given the right nutrients and opportunity to do so.” He reasons: “I accept that there are times when medical intervention is necessary, for
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short-term, acute conditions. But for long- term chronic disease, it’s nonsensical to only treat the symptoms and not the causes.” He’s certainly not advocating that peo- ple do nothing but juice forever. “Yes, you’ll eat again – who would want to live on juice alone? Out of sheer desperation to rid my body completely of psoriasis, I once did a juice-only programme for three months – not even any smoothies or superfoods. Would I recommend it? Not in a million years. I lost too much weight – excess fat, but also healthy fat and lots of lean muscle.” The recommendation is to wean yourself
back onto food carefully, starting with raw foods – salad and so on. The idea is that you then progress to, as far as possible, a diet of what Vale calls Low HI (human interven- tion) foods – those that “don’t need a label to explain what they are”. Around 50 per cent should be high water content foods such as
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