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QUiCK weight loss tip!

Health Tip for the Week If you want to lose a couple of pounds quickly for your vacation or another special event, do a 2-day juice fast.  Just drink veggie juices, veggie slushies, water, herbal teas for two days.  One of the most powerful interventions for losing weight and optimizing your insulin and leptin levels is to fast. There are two fuels your body can burn for energy--sugar and fat. You have about six to eight hours of stored sugar as glycogen in your muscles and liver.  Once you exhaust that store, then you’re out of fuel.  Most people have plenty of fat to burn. The problem is when that when you keep your glycogen stores consistently replenished by eating every six to eight hours, then the enzymes that are adapted to burn the fat get impaired, preventing your body from burning the fat for fuel. When you up-regulate your enzymes to burn fat, you down-regulate the enzymes that burn carbs, and shift your body into a fat-burning mode as your primary way of supplying energy.  That's the power of short veggie juice fasts. Click for more information on the Mercola site. Weight-Loss Buddy 3-4 carrots, scrubbed well, tops removed, ends trimmed 1 Jerusalem artichoke, scrubbed well 1 cucumber, peeled if not organic 1 lemon, peeled if not organic 1/2 small beet, scrubbed well with stems and leaves Cut produce to fit your juicer’s feed tube.  Juice ingredients and stir.  Pour into a glass and drink as soon as possible.  Serves 1 Note: Jerusalem artichoke juice combined with carrot and beet is a traditional remedy for satisfying cravings for sweets and junk food.  The key is to sip it slowly when you get a craving for high-fat or high-carb foods. The Jerusalem artichokes are also called sun chokes. They are gnarly little tubers that look a lot like ginger root. From The Juice Lady's Turbo Diet A Scholarship is Available for the August 4-10 Retreat Thanks to a generous donor, we have another scholarship that is available for the August 4-10 Health & Wellness Cleanse Retreat at the Pecos Monastery.  To apply, you need to tell us why you want to come and to send a copy of your tax return for 2012.  You can email that to cherie@juiceladycherie.com We have 5 spots available for that retreat.  Let us know as soon as possible if you plan to attend.  Call 425-261-8821. REGISTER NOW! Facebook Twitter Website Google Plus Email