If you have never taken a mouthful of cantaloupe juice, you simply have not lived. Strawberry juice mixed with pear, or apple and yam is a taste of ecstasy. Blueberry juice is a taste of liquid heaven. A mixture of carrot, apple, beet, celery, tomato, and lemon tastes like a living V8, giving an energy-boost to the day that is far better than a coffee.

Fruit and vegetable juices are the cleansers, energizers, builders and regenerators of the human system. A combination of either fresh raw fruit or vegetable juices will supply all the enzymes, vitamins and minerals critical to increase vitality!

According to how healthy you are, the average person is able to assimilate between 1% to 35% of the nutrients in vegetables. All nutrients of vegetables are locked within the fibers. A juice extractor is able to extract 70% to 98% of the nutrients from vegetables. When you pass a carrot through the juice machine, it effectively separates the juice that is locked in the fibers. In drinking the juice, the majority of nutrients are absorbed directly into the bloodstream without the work of digestion. An abundant supply of nutrients in conjunction with minimum digestive effort is a perfect healing environment. Try to make some juice each day. Juice can replace any meal. If you want to lose weight and detoxify, drink juice all day and eat one evening meal.

Eat Raw Food

Depending on the severity of illness, a 30 to 90 day raw-food diet can result in phenomenal healing. We do not include raw nuts, seeds, sprouts or grains. These foods are harder to digest, high in protein and calories that will impede cannibalization. They also do not have the sponge-like, soft, fibrous qualities that contribute to the cleansing of the colon.

A raw-food diet has two advantages over fasting. First, it slows detoxification, resulting in a gentler cleansing crisis. Secondly, fruit and vegetables are filled with soft fibers that are excellent in cleansing a bowel that has been impacted with hardened mucus deposits and abused by processed foods. An unhealthy colon will result in an unhealthy body. It is impossible to expect a body to heal when the colon is congested with old, dried, impacted mucus, blocking the absorption of essential vitamins and minerals through the colon wall.

Surprisingly, it takes more discipline to live on a raw-food diet than to fast. After two days of fasting, the digestive system shuts down. Hunger disappears. Ceasing from the act of eating places a clear perimeter, establishing single-mindedness and focus. During a raw-food diet, the perimeters can become vague, resulting in a greater need for discipline. Those of us who find it difficult to discern between hunger and cravings may find an orange and a banana unsatisfying. I really feel my body is telling me that I need a Snickers bar. Or, wouldn't some low-fat cottage cheese go nice with my cantaloupe. It seems so easy to eat too much or eat the wrong things during a raw-food program.

The rule to follow is, if it’s not alive, don't eat it! Don't overeat, and don't be afraid of feeling a little hungry, it won't kill you. A good rule of thumb is to eat fruit and juice vegetables. One glass of carrot juice contains about 5 carrots. On a practical level, it is far easier to drink the juice of five carrots than eat them. Fruit is easy to eat, needs little or no preparation and is delicious. Small amounts of sprouts are beneficial, yet should be avoided if combating serious disease. The heavier proteins will slow the cleansing.

Exercise

Get the juices flowing in the body. A lazy boy chair just won't cut it. Laziness is not godliness. Exercising improves circulation, stimulates digestion, strengthens the heart muscles, improves the circulation of nutrients and oxygen, increases the elimination of wastes, improves the function of the colon, cleans and increases lung capacity, lowers triglyceride levels and uric acid levels, decreases platelet stickiness, increases flexibility, motor functions and insulin-receptor sensitivity. Exercise improves the functioning of all the organs and lymph glands. The liquid which cleans the cells is absorbed by the lymph glands which needs motion to dump cellular waste. Increased exercise will improve the lymph’s ability to keep the cells clean.

Go for walks in the fresh air.   Oxygen is needed by every cell of your body.  Give it an abundant supply.  Jesus walked to His mission fields, He didn't drive. It is agonizing to grab your sleeping metabolism by the scruff of the neck and wake it up. After a few weeks, you will begin to look forward to exercising, whether it be sports, fast walking, bicycling, jogging or wrestling in the living room with your kids.