of medical training learning about nutrition! I am not knocking doctors as a whole. I am however questioning the madness of this television doctor, for expressing that it was OK for Shantelle to do the juice diet as part of Good Morning Britain's 'FAD-FREE DIET' promo, because she was 'under supervision'.
'A GOOD juice diet is the single-most effective, rapid weight loss and health turnaround system I have ever known. It is also the most effective at changing the way someone feels about all food and reducing or even eliminating cravings for junk' "...hardly any protein..." Shantelle did the juice diet for 20 days, losing 11lbs, and Dr Hilary Jones was quick to say: “If we look at the juicing, it’s unsustainable. It’s not nutritionally complete. Hardly any protein in that, all the sugar from the fruit is being released as ‘free sugar’ which is not good, you’ve got no fibre… so is this healthy? No, it isn’t. Shantelle only lasted 20 of 28 days but she lost 11lbs, so as a crash diet yes it works but it is unsustainable… and there’s plenty of evidence that suggests that juicing actually leads to weight gain.”
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Please read and re-read this statement. Where do we start?
“...it's unsustainable...” Whoever said you can live on nothing but juice forever? If Dr Hilary was to ever actually read my Super Juice Me! book, he will see that the juice diet is about doing something 'abnormal' to counter the 'abnormalities' of eating a bad diet. It is a way to 'reset' the mind and body and drop a significant amount of weight in a short space of time to give people hope and momentum. This is why so many people have long-term success after one of my juice diets because by the end of it they crave 'good food'. So, continuing forever on nothing but juice is indeed 'unsustainable' but that's not what I have ever promoted. A GOOD juice diet is the single-most effective, rapid weight loss and health turnaround system I have ever known. It is also the most effective at changing the way someone feels about all food and reducing or even eliminating cravings for junk.
The largest land animals in the world are all vegan and get all their protein from plants. We require 'amino acids', the building blocks for protein, and this is why I add many avocados into the Super Juice Me! plan as well as bananas – both ingredients contain these wonderful amino acids.
"...all the sugar from the fruit is being released as 'free sugar,' you've got no fibre..." I have only one word - NONSENSE! Yes, shop-bought, heavily processed fruit juice has zero fibre and ALL of those sugars are 'free sugars' and cause sugar spikes. However, FRESHLY EXTRACTED JUICES, especially when blended with avocado, DO NOT! ALL freshly extracted juice, especially when 'cold pressed', contains soluble fibre – add the avocado and banana and you have insoluble fibre too. We are now with 'sugar' where we once were with 'fat' and it seems many people believe all sugars are the same, when they simply are not. We need very little fibre