Read Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It! Online
Authors: Kris Carr,Rory Freedman (Preface),Dean Ornish M.D. (Foreword)
Tags: #Nutrition, #Motivational & Inspirational, #Health & Fitness, #Diets, #Medical, #General, #Women - Health and hygiene, #Health, #Diet Therapy, #Self-Help, #Vegetarianism, #Women
Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It! (35 page)
A word of caution about distilled water: It’s not as pure as commonly believed. In fact, any chemicals with a boiling point below water are not removed. This includes chlorine and many insecticides and herbicides.
Some filter systems can also ionize the water—that is, use electrolysis to break the water into acid and alkaline portions. There are household uses for both. Acid water is good for washing veggies, as well as skin, hair, and brushing teeth, while alkaline water is good for juicing, cooking, and drinking. In the body alkaline water is said to help eliminate acid waste, balance pH, and act as an antioxidant by mopping up free radicals. Countertop and under-sink ionizing devices are widely available online. These units are fairly expensive ($1,000 to $3,000), but keep in mind they also contain carbon filters, so in a sense you’re getting two filters for the price.
One last thought. If you don’t filter your water, your body will—and your liver and kidneys will be very unhappy about it. Don’t make them put in overtime. They need beauty sleep just like you, my lovely.
DRINKING BUDDIES
I’m a juicehead all right;
I love my Green Goddess morning, noon, and night. I love to hydrate with clean, healing water. Let’s be drinking buddies and (faux) egg each other on. You always drink more when you do it with a friend. How about enlisting a few other like-minded ladies (or gents) to swap recipes, check in to make sure you’ve met your daily goal, or just to toast to the new yous!
testimonial
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Ryan R.
The Crazy Sexy Diet launched me into a fantastic journey. I had been struggling with a variety of issues that evolved during my radiation treatments last summer. The diet appealed to me because I was frustrated with not feeling like myself (a strong, nutritionally balanced, confident, vegetarian mother of four, wife, and science teacher). One major issue that I have suffered is with my voice. It has been hoarse or absent since I started radiation last June.
The daily juice and mostly raw diet has vastly improved the quality and strength of my voice. I am convinced that hydration is a major part of my voice issue. My radiologist insists that my voice issues can’t be related to my treatments; however, in addition to laryngitis/severe hoarseness, I was incredibly thirsty from day one of radiation and tamoxifen. No amount of water intake quenched my thirst. The radiation ended in early August and I quit taking the tamoxifen in November.
Although I had been a vegetarian and had juiced vegetables regularly over the last thirty-plus years, I had never considered making green juice. Today, thanks to CSD, green juice is a major component of my daily diet. Cucumber is the base of my daily green breakfast cocktail. My dehydration issues are finally resolved! I am hopeful that with speech therapy my voice will recover. My diet is evolving toward vegan and I feel very well. I no longer fear the return of the cancer. I am confident that my improving diet will help me maintain my health.
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REMEMBER:
Have a juice first thing in the morning.
