Comments on: Cleanse - Day 2

By: Ariel

Ariel — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 05:05:00 +0000

Millet is a grain, but according to that same “Cleanse Cookbook,” it’s an alkalizing grain.

And re: protein. According to the guy who developed the program, that while foods like dairy, meat, soy, etc are high in protein, they’re so hard for the body to process that very little of the protein is actually absorbed by the intestines. Therefore, you get more protein from easily digestable sources like veggies than you can from a slab of steak.

Here’s the quote: “Many more people are sick because of too much protein rather than not enough. Protein is in all fruits and vegetables. Though meat eaters consume more protein, they actually have more protein deficiencies than vegetarians because of dysfunctional liver and digestive activity resulting from intake of too many acid-forming foods.”

I’m not totally sure if I buy it, but I do know that I feel like a million bucks when I do this cleanse, and so I’m not too worried about not getting a lot of non-veggie protein when I’m cleansing.

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 04:57:18 +0000

How do you get protein on this cleanse? Or is the point not to? Also, isn’t millet a grain? Deathly curious…my mom does a high-alkaline diet and swears by it.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:33:34 +0000

Glace, we are cooking everything ourselves (Do you know of any restaurants specializing in food with no salt, pepper, dairy, grains, diary, meat, or soy? I don’t!), getting the recipes from this book: The Cleanse Cookbook, which we bought separately from the cleanse products, but which is written specifically for folks on the Arise & Shine program.

By: leblanc

leblanc — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:31:21 +0000

fetal aliens???? gross.

By: Glace

Glace — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:26:36 +0000

Are you cooking all your meals yourself? Did you get the recipes from the cleanse people?

Still very interested, but daunted, here.